9 January 2016
Episode 45
15 minutes
Dutch singer Janne Schra is this week’s Midori House sessionista. When her band Room Eleven split in 2009 she set out solo and last year she released her second album ‘Ponzo’. Schra plays us a stripped-back version of her pop-fuelled tracks and chats to Monocle about going solo.
9 January 2016
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