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The Luscious Layered Sounds of Pheno | Pheno | TEDxCanberra

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2016 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Pheno (pro­nounced “fee-no”) brings 21st-cen­tury sci­ence to the wild rhythms of Afrobeat, indie rock and jazz. Her music lay­ers shim­mer­ing elec­tric gui­tar, elec­tro synths and beats with a stomp­ing back­beat and power­ful vocals.  Her performances are dazzling, mesmerising, and quite beautiful.

Pheno is a moniker for elec­tric gui­tar­ist and vocal­ist Jess Green, whose career has spanned jazz, Blues and Rock; audi­ences may remem­ber Jess per­form­ing with Blues legend Jim Con­way, Jazz greats; The Cath­ol­ics, or indeed lead­ing her groups, includ­ing The Bright Sparks or The New Dynam­ites. Most recently Jess was seen in the ACT tour­ing with Indie Elec­tro-pop song­stress Alyx Den­nison.

Jess grew up in Can­berra and stud­ied at the ANU before basing her­self in Sydney for 10 years. After tour­ing nation­ally and inter­na­tion­ally with vari­ous ensembles, Jess returned in 2016 to live in Can­berra.

Pheno recently com­pleted a highly suc­cess­ful crowd­fund­ing cam­paign to record her debut EP, which is set for release late 2016.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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