One To Watch – Lisa Mitchell

Think Joni Mitchell, add a sugary dusting with a more soprano voice, and you’ll instantly understand the sounds of Lisa Mitchell.

Her airy, dreamy folk-style music, is easy on the ears, and is sweet without being nauseating – a little like a cross between Six Pence None The Richer and Jolie Holland. Mitchell (the latter) has just released the video to ‘Wah Ha’ which is as equally as dreamy as the song itself.

“This video came about it a unexpected way,” Mitchell explains. “A good friend, Kirrilee Bailey, and I went up to the snow for the weekend during the winter season just passed. We stayed in a lodge that was like something out of a Wes Anderson film is an alpine wilderness full of childhood memories of going skiing with my family.”

“I spent our time on the chairlifts rambling to Kirri while she clung to her cameras, about the ski-runs my sister and I loved and where we’d meet Mum and Dad for hot chocolate at the bottom,” she continues. “Kirri and I didn’t ski this time – we just took in the views, played with Kirri’s prism lenses in the heavenly light and got lost in the bluest sky I’d seen in a while. The footage was so charming that we realised it would make the perfect accompaniment to Wah Ha; grounded in the Australian Landscape but somehow floating off into the ether.”

Watch and listen to Lisa Mitchell Wah Ha here…