Loraine James

Loraine James grew up in Enfield, North London and was drawn into the world of music making through her mother's eclectic love of music, and the multiculturalism of her city. Her third album ‘Reflection’ (Hyperdub) was made in the summer of 2020 and is a turbulent expression of inner-space, laid out in unflinching honesty, that offers gentle empathy and bitter-sweet hope. Leaning further into pop music in her own way, it takes the listener through how a tumultous year felt for a young, Black queer woman and her acolytes in a world that has suddenly stopped moving.

In 2022 Loraine created a custom soundtrack for a large-scale and immersive audiovisual installation by Urban Projections (Rebecca Smith) as part of the launch of our All Things Equal Manife