Multi-instrumentalists Gemma Barkerwood, Sophie Barkerwood, and Louise Croft describe themselves as “instrumental dream-pop-post-folk-neo-everything”. Influenced by the evocative film soundtracks of Yann Tiersen and Benoît Charest, the genre-melting electronica of early Múm, and the impressionistic writing of Haruki Murakami, their music blends folk traditions with otherworldly found sounds and future-forward “loopery and laptopery”.
Over five critically acclaimed albums, they have created their distinct sound, which, while it always evolves, is uniquely and definably Haiku Salut.
Outside of their albums, they have collaborated with Public Service Broadcasting on 2017’s ‘They Gave Me A Lamp’ and in 2018 composed an original piece for the Manchester Robot Orchestra.
In 2019, as part of the BFI’s Comedy Genius season, the band wrote an original contemporary score for Buster Keaton’s 1926 film ‘The General’, performing across the UK, in Northern Ireland and Estonia. The double LP of this score, titled The General, was also released in 2019.
Having recently signed to label Lo Recordings (Aphex Twin/Grimes), their forthcoming album ‘The Lost Score’ forays into the realms of classical jazz, a record six years in the making in collaboration with Melbourne-born, London-based pianist Meg Morley.