Aquamanda (Amanda Greatorex) has been mesmerizing many a chill-out room with her celestial voice, having played at The Big Chill 2007, where she enchanted the mind& body stage with her breezy seductive songs. previously you may have seen her at Glastonbury, Mass, The Fridge, Pendragon, the Dulwich Arts Festival and London Fashion Week (93ft East). She is currently performing her repertoire of new material at intimate venues around London.

The albums "LOVE IS MY LANGUAGE" , "DIARY" and the compilation "BOUDOIR", feature songs old and new, drawn from personal experience, exposing an emotional Aquamanda very much with her own take on life. Songs of longing & intimacy, wonderment and angels, a need for space, a need for expressing love.

Many tracks feature real instruments whilst embracing technology, with Amanda playing grand piano, autoharp & monochord (a 36 stringed instrument producing a drone and harmonics - on "Kiss the wind") or a string quartet swelling around that heavenly voice ( "Angels"). Her craft of songwriting shines through this timeless collection of songs.

John Peel put her first release “Knees Up Mother Earth” (with Knights of The Occasional Table) in his Festive 50 calling it “a lovely record”.

Aquamanda has released 12" dance tracks on her own label "FAIRY CAKE UNIVERSE" Here Amanda is in her own cosmic disco! (check out the copmpliation cd of the same name) Evidence of her scientific and intuitive thoughts on the universe are abundant. The joy of enlightenment through dance, love, stars, meditation, the elements, the interconnectedness of everything. Already with a BA in Fashion/textiles under her designer belt, she then went on to explore her natural abilities to work with energy (Tama Do Academy of Sound, Colour & Movement Diploma).

"Beautiful", the 2003 12" release on pink vinyl began the production partnership with Larry Lush who has worked with Amanda co-producing many tracks plus the folktronica project, where Amanda has teamed up with David Clark Allen (ex Carmen). A wonderful mix of David's latin influenced guitar and Amanda's trademark voice and insightful lyrics. Amanda & David often pop up performing in the local live music scene (ie Dulwich Festival). David has since gone on to work with Larry to develop his instrumental electroflamenco style under the name of Widescreen.

Amanda has music included in a short film ("Louder Than Words"). She approached local portrait photographer Pia Randall Goddard to try out film making with the suggestion of the track "Angels and Violins". The resulting twinkly out of focus video features playful cherub children and was premiered at the Ritzy in Brixton in November for Village Films 10 year anniversary shorts screening. (see "Chinashop"below).

Amandas vocals have impressed and inspired other artists to collaborate and remix her tracks. Haris & Automatic dance remix of "Angels", James Hare (aka the drum and bass dj/producer "Perception") uses Amanda's vocals and takes them to another dimension! Examples of which you can hear on the cosmic disco compilation. Slicing up the cheeky yet romantic song "Statue" and producing "Oblivious" and "Close my eyes" from the choice cuts. Plus there is the dancier remix of "Wonderland" which incidentally James originally co-produced whilst he was still at school.

Back in the lovely leafy burbs of Dulwich, you may find Amanda in various Choral Societies nestled amongst the sopranos. Like such sacred music, you get a sense that Amanda's music connects to the source...

Click on DJ Aquamanda on the home page for list of gigs and venues re djing: djaquamanda has a wild time of her own - from Dax's 7th at the scout hut, Carolines's 40th at Soho House, a civil partnership at Dulwich College to Brucie's 80th at the BBC

Other stuff:

Amanda also writes for Dulwich On View (art & music), and is a volunteer schools art tour guide at The Dulwich Picture Gallery. She is presently Chair of Dulwich Village Infants' PTA (2007-2008) instigating creative projects such as the recording of a Christmas CD of all 210 children, various design projects, and co-odinating school fairs, discos, parents event nights. Amanda's PR and organisational skills came into the fore in June 2008 as she was responsible for finding and co-ordinating the 13 celebrity presenters (inc Prunella Scales, Terry Waite) and host (Marcus Brigstocke) for the National Charity Awards 2008.