Robin Kester x Tessa Rose Jackson

Folklore Sessions Presents;
Robin Kester + Tessa Rose Jackson
Co-Headline Show

The Folklore Rooms
August 17th | £12adv
18+

Robin Kester:
Rotterdam-based Robin Kester’s music thrives in moments of quiet unease. Following her 2020 “mini album” ‘This Is Not A Democracy’, the musician was lauded for her stirring blend of chamber pop and psychedelia for her debut album ‘Honeycomb Shades’ (2023). Her debut was named best Dutch album of the year by newspapers NRC and de Volkskrant, and nominated for the best Dutch album by 3voor12.

Now, Kester’s returning with second album ‘Dark Sky Reserve’; a soundtrack to all the thoughts that bubble to the surface once the silence sinks in. ‘Dark Sky Reserve’ is Kester’s most artistically focused record to date, combining a rich, layered humanity in the music with minimalist lyricism. With the help of producer Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, Perfume Genius) – and guest appearances by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Rozi Plain – Kester balances scenes of idyllic bliss from the “magical and strange” Talybont-on-Usk with existential questions on ‘Departure’. Written in the nights of recording sessions in Bristol, ‘Dark Sky Reserve’ is the result of Kester writing from a place of newfound clarity: “I could see myself for who I am.”

Tessa Rose Jackson:
Tessa Rose Jackson is a songwriter, composer and visual artist based in London and Amsterdam. For six years she released music under the moniker Someone, but as of 2024 she has returned tousing her own name for all her creative output.

As Jackson is a film composer as well as an indieartist, her music has a naturally visual quality to it - channelling stories in which the human, theintimate and the fantastical are intertwined.Musically she salutes heroes such as Feist, Laura Marling, Nick Drake and Zero 7, toeing thefineline between dreams and reality, delicacy and force. Jackson worked as a soundtrack artist and composer on the highly anticipated videogame “Life IsStrange: Double Exposure” as part of the Feel For Music team.

In January 2025 she released herlatest EP “A Mirror Sometimes” to critical acclaim, and is gearing up to the release of herfifthstudio album in 2026