With the release of multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer Mieke Miami’s album ‘Birdland’ in sight, Sonar Kollektiv presents the only cover version on the album, the timeless Dusty Springfield classic ‘Son Of A Preacher Man’. The song simply popped into Mieke’s head one day and she soon found herself recording a one chord vocal that gives the tune something of a more cosmic and out there feel.
The art of a creating a worthy cover version is a mystical one, but Mieke has really achieved something special here, re-working the sultry, soulful serenade to a lost love and turning it into a jazz drenched, enigmatic mid-tempo shuffler complete with Karl Ivar Refseth’s vibraphone, dubbed out effects and Mieke’s dramatic flutes, bass clarinet, alto sax as well as, of course, those spaced out vocals!
With her new album out there in the world and having not been able to tour her second album due to pandemic, Mieke and her live band will be hitting the road and performing across Germany and beyond very soon.
Mieke Miami is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer originally from Hamburg, but now living in the working class, so-called “artistic” enclave of Luckenwalde, in the federal state of Brandenburg to the south-west of Berlin. Her musical origins lie with the jazz saxophone, which she studied in Berlin before starting her song- writing journey in 2014. Mieke released her folk-influenced first album, In The Old Forest, on Sonar Kollektiv in 2015, and having moved to Brandenburg in 2019 to bring up her family, she released her darker, second LP, Montecarlo Magic, on Berlin imprint Fun In The Church in 2021.
In 2024 she returns to Sonar Kollektiv with her third album, Birdland, which develops her unique fusion of psychedelic jazz and leftfield electronics with Mieke performing vocals, bass clarinet, flute, sax, keys, programming, as well as co-producing and writing all of the original music. It’s an album that in many ways represents a solo vision, but is also created with a full live band performance in mind.
‘Birdland’ is set for release on September 27th.
Listen to ‘Son of a Preacher Man’ here
Press release courtesy of Only Good Stuff
