| Biography | Signed to Chess Club Records, the East London five-piece led by singer and guitarist, Isabel Munoz-Newsome, released their debut single Priestess in September, and weve been unable to stop listening since. The song has hints of Womans Hour in its fragile opening moments, but transforms once Munoz-Newsome starts her chanting vocals. The band follow in-kind with adventurous jams, almost like finding each other for the first time before locking into a groove that morphs the song into a sort of dance-rock track thats a million times more appealing than that description.
Pumarosa have been together for just over a year, developing from the core of Munoz-Newsome and drummer, Nicholas Owen, to the five-piece who released Priestess. Munoz-Newsome explains the origins of the band: Wed been playing together for quite a few years doing different projects and sort of coming in and out of playing with each other. The last band we did together ended, and I started writing stuff on my own. I thought I would get a band to play with me... and then the band became bigger than that!
Before Pumarosa took shape, Munoz-Newsome had some developing of her own to do as a song writer and musician: At the beginning it was like folk music and then it became really electro, and then it became really heavy rock, and now it is what it is now! The pieces of the band then started fitting into place: We found Henry [Brown], who plays bass, then Tomoya [Suzuki] who plays saxophone and keys, and the last one to join was Neville [James] who plays guitar." |