Josephine Illingworth

Josephine Illingworth turns field recordings and folklore into folk songs

Josephine Illingworth makes folk music that draws on sound art, hiking, and the natural world. The supplied sources describe her as a mountaineer, musician, and sound artist, and say she uses sounds from nature to write surreal folk songs. An interview source places her work in a garden-shed setting and says she wanted to create her own folklore for listeners to enter. The same interview connects her recent release The Roaming to a move away from a major-label period and toward a more independent approach. Across the sources, her songs are framed by place, imagination, and lived experience rather than by a single fixed style.