Welcome everyone to So the Jaker on songwriting. This is Brian here with Simon and joining us for our 3001 episode is a deliciously discodelic vocal group with its roots in the Big Apple.

The British American trio have just dropped their third studio album, Cut and Rewind, recorded live to tape in North Hollywood with their trusty backing band, Colt L.A. Fongsters,

Oggone. We are very happy to welcome Say She Shees, Pierre Malick, Sabrina Cunningham and Niagara

Giselle Brown to the show. New Yorker Sabrina and Londoner Pierre first met when they were neighbours

in the same apartment block on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Apparently they used to hear each

other singing through the floorboards.

Once formally introduced, they became fast friends and began writing songs together on a casual basis.

Shortly after moving to New York, Pierre had encountered Washington native Nair at a rooftop party in Harlem,

where they two bonded instantly and discovered a musical kinship.

Their name, inspired by those other New York Disco Luminary is chic,

and with the likes of Minnie Ripperton, Rotary Connection and ESG numbering among their

influencers, Cichishi's live bow took place at intimate Brooklyn venue Barbess.

This was before they had any proper songs of their own,

and Naya was yet to join the group, although she was in the audience,

as incidentally was Robert Plant. No pressure there. With Naya officially on board, they made

some of their earliest demos on a tape machine gifted to them by a musician friend. They developed

this material during the pandemic, and much of her found its way onto their impressive debut album,

Prism, released in the

autumn of 2022. Shortly afterwards, they were introduced by their then-label boss to the

aforementioned Orgon, who duly became their house rhythm section, and played a crucial

role in helping them crystallise their musical vision. Sophomore LP Silver, which struck the mere

12 months after its predecessor, garnered glowing reviews,

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