Saskia Maxwell is a songwriter, singer, multi instrumentalist and dancer who has performed over 1000 shows across the UK and Europe over the last decade. Saskia's more recent performances display a new found purpose and grace and are suggestive of a move towards a more otherworldly and ethereal folk style. Her songs are explorative of many moods and perspectives that share a common purpose of being spiritually provocative and invigorating, with beautiful soaring vocals and intricate finger picking guitar.
Saskia weaves devotion & spirituality into her music and dance performances and draws inspiration from many sources.
As well as working as a solo performer, Saskia is also a part of the psychedelic band Silas & Saski. in 2020 Silas & Saski released ‘Power Of Three' on Ozric's Erpsongs label.
Power Of Three is a myriad of sonic blasts, soaring vocals and angel choirs, accompanied by powerful basslines and “to the skies” guitars, nestled in a bed of multilayered synthesis, featuring members from the early days of Ozric Tentacles, including the founder Ed Wynne, Tom Brooks making EMS Synthi bubbles and percussion from Paul Hankin. S&S fuse together many genres including electronic music, folk, space rock, prog, Turkish, Arabic / Oriental, psychedelic, dub / reggae with traces of metal.
In 2021 Saskia joined the legendary Ozric Tentacles on stage, playing flute with them for the first time at 02 Shepherds Bush Empire, 02 Academy Sheffield, Equinox Festival and OBTC Festival. She also performed a 30 date tour across the UK with Ozric Tentacles Electronic, with Silas & Saski as the support act for the tour. Throughout 2022, Saskia has played flute and modular synthesis with Ozric Tentacles Electronic at nearly all their summer festival shows. (Anthropos Festival, Off The Tracks, AudioFarm, Weyfest, Trieste Summer Rock (Italy),SRS Festival,Bearded Theory) and many more.
In November 2022, two pioneering legends of psychedelica (Gong and Ozric Tentacles) toured together on a large UK tour of sold out 02 venues. Saskia played with Ozric Tentacles (flute / synth) and also joined Gong on stage (Dance / Vocals), performing a whirling dervish esque dance and singing on 'Masterbuilder'/ 'Insert Yr Prophecy'
Saskia also creates original artwork (Abstract, Visionary). In September 2022,she exhibited her artwork / fine art prints at the Psychedelic Gallery at Anthropos Festival. To find out more about Saskia's artwork, visit the 'Artwork' tab. For bookings - glenn.eventhorizon.com / saskia@saskiamaxwell.com
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