Margate teenager Ruby Tipple will release her first single and her debut EP next month with Tonetic Records.
The 17-year-old creates introspective acoustic ballads using her biting poetry alongside instrumentation.
Ruby is a singer and songwriter who wrote her first original song, ‘Pour’, last summer at Arts Education Exchanges’ SoundEscapes programme.
Since then she has been writing and recording her first cut of tracks at Margate’s Tonetic Studio, exploring how lyrical themes of the natural world around us, different song structures and the components of her instrumentation can elevate her songs.
She releases single Bitter of September 7 and her EP All the Days on September 21.
Ruby said: “Bitter is inspired by heartbreak, loss, and the loneliness of losing someone who you felt mattered.
“‘With Bitter, I’m marking my place in the world in the song; it’s my way of letting people know that my viewpoint matters as much as anyone else’s. With this, I feel like Bitter can relate to many of us, wishing that suffering would be given space to simply exist.”
Bitter is the lead single from Ruby’s EP, which will be accompanied by second single Puzzle Pieces, releasing on September 14.
A launch gig will be held at Cliftonville’s Rosslyn Court on September 7 as well as a visual performance piece to be released on the Tonetic Youtube channel and website.
Doors open for the Rosslyn Court gig at 7pm and there will be support from Harmony Bo and Jon Beetham.
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Tonetic records is a recently formed youth lead record label based in Cliftonville, and is a subsidiary of Arts Education Exchange.
Tom Postgate, from Tonetic, said: “The landscape of the music industry is changing, and above all, young artists need the tools and experience to realize their creative visions.
“At Tonetic we strive to empower young artists, not only providing them the space to create, but also involving them in all the inner workings of distributing music.
“We want our artists to enter the industry with the ideas and skills to thrive on their own, whatever that landscape looks like in the future.”
