Lucy Railton

About Lucy Railton

Lucy Railton is a British cellist, composer, cross-disciplinary collaborator whose practice reflects an endlessly innovative and restless approach to the cello and artistic self-expression. In 2018, Modern Love released Railton's first solo album, Paradise 94. She collaborated with Peter Zinovieff, co-founder of the EMS Synthesizer company, on RFG Inventions for Cello and Computer, which was released by PAN in February 2020. Three months later, Railton's improvisational Lament in Three Parts was issued by Cafe Oto's digital label TakuRoku. Her composition Forma was released by Portraits GRM (a collaboration between Austrian experimental label Editions Mego and French electro-acoustic institution INA GRM) as the first side of a split LP with Baltimore-based experimental musician Max Eilbacher. Railton's 2010 performance of Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus by Oliver Messiaen was issued by Modern Love as a benefit recording, with proceeds split between the UN Refugee Agency COVID-19 Appeal and the Grenfell Foundation. Her latest solo album Blue Veil on Ideological Organ is her first record that solely explores the acoustic range of her instrument. Known for her innovative approach, her work spans dance, film, installation, and performance art in wide-ranging collaborative contexts, including work with Kali Malone, Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith, the Maryanne Amacher Foundation, Akram Khan and Beatrice Dillon.