Jo Mango is the stage name of a British

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and acoustic singer and songwriter from

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, otherwise known as Jo Collinson Scott, a lecturer at the

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. ''Jo Mango'' has also been the name of her band.

Career

Born in Yorkshire,'A Giant On The Bridge: Music project aims to explore attitudes towards punishment and justice', ''Sunday Post'' (3 November 2021). Scott grew up in rural north-east Scotland. As a teenager she became involved in

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's music scene; her first band was called The Mangomen and included her twin brother. In 1999 or 2000, at the age of eighteen, she moved to

to study music and psychology, aiming to become a music therapist. There she also developed her skills via open mic nights at the Glasgow bar Nice 'n' Sleazy's, and by playing in the

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and a folk band named The Old Blind Dogs. Scott's first album, ''Paperclips and Sand'', emerged in 2006. 2006–7 saw Scott touring internationally as a member of

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's band, and in the UK on the Zero Degrees of Separation tour alongside Bunyan,

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, Adem,

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, and

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.Nicola Meighan,
Interview: Jo Mango
, ''The Herald'' (2 November 2012). At this time, Scott named key influences as 'Emiliana Torrini, Stina Nordestam, Bright Eyes, Ben Folds, Bjork, Kate Rusby, quirky indie acoustica'.'Local Spotlight: Jo Mango', ''Glasgow Evening Times'' (16 March 2006). Other collaborations in the years around 2010 included work with

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and

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. ''

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'' described Scott's 2013 EP ''When We Lived in The Crook of a Tree'' as " voiceso hushed and precise, that it sounds as if it were recorded inside your own head". In 2012, Scott completed a PhD in musicology, with the thesis "Experiments in schizoanalysis: a new approach to analysis of conceptual music". By 2015, she had become a lecturer in commercial music at the University of the West of Scotland. She has also taught at the

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. In the mid-2010s, Scott's work focused on promoting ecological sustainability in music festivals, leading to her EP ''Wrack Lines'', and a project called When Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday. In the years around 2020, Scott was undertaking creative work relating to prisoners' rehabilitation, leading to her EP ''System Hold'', characterised in ''

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'' as 'featherlight piano balladry with subtle electronic beats' providing 'a chill-out meditation on themes of incarceration, monitoring and suspension of liberty'.Fiona Shepherd, Ken Walton And Jim Gilchrist, "Album reviews: Siobhan Wilson , Beyoncé , The Pearlfishers , Jo Mango & Friends", ''The Scotsman'' (7 May 2019). The work also involved Scott in a music festival called Distant Voices highlighting the music of people who had experienced the criminal justice system, and her composition of a multimedia piece named ''A Giant on the Bridge''.

Jo Mango band members

At the time of the release of the 2012 album ''Murmuration'', the band named ''Jo Mango'' comprised:Rob Lavender, "Sweet as a Songbird", ''Metro'' cotland edition(2 November 2012), p. 55. *Jo Mango: lead vocals,

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*Jim Mango:

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, backing vocals *Alan Peacock: backing vocals,

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*Katherine Waumsley: flute, piano, kalimba and concertina *Calum Scott: percussion

Discography

EPs

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'' (2003) #'' Fluffy Brain'' (2004) #''The Moth and the Moon'' / ''Black Sun'' (2010) #''Wrack Lines'' (2016 – Jo Mango & Friends) #''System Hold'' (2019 – Jo Mango & Friends)

Studio albums

#''Paperclips and Sand'' (2006) #''Murmuration'' (2012) #''Transformuration'' (2014 - Remixes of ''Murmuration'')

Singles

#"My Lung" (2007 - Download Only)

References

External links

The official Jo Mango website
(archived 2008)
Myspace page
(archived 2009)
anotherday.co.uk
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Official Site {{DEFAULTSORT:Mango, Jo Scottish folk music groups