Deep Cabaret is a thing of riffs and drones.

The band are:
Steve Lewis (vocals & guitar)
Maja Bugge (cello)
Ben McCabe (drums & vocals)
Matt Robinson (clarinets, baritone saxophone & flutes)
Paul Sherwood (hurdy-gurdies & bagpipes)
Jayson Stilwell (overtone vocals & percussion)


Deep Cabaret is the culmination of bandleader Steve Lewis' life's work: to make a band that curates all the musics that fascinate him - jazz, improv, African, folk and leftfield pop. Lyrics are fragments of text taken from novels, journalism, spiritual and other texts that have interesting things to say about being human.


Hurdies, bagpipes, bass clarinets, cellos and the beguiling harmonics of overtone singing. Desert blues improv and noir-drenched dronesongs; fulsomely romantic and coruscatingly edgy. Mashed-up lyrics lifted from neuroscience, slavery, fiction and Cole Porter covers all "pickled in the juices of the peat”.

The band spent 2018 on their 'Slow Tour' of the North supported by Jazz North. At the beginning of 2019 they were awarded Arts Council England funding to record an album at Real World studios with producer Justin Adams (Tinawarien, Lo'Jo) due for release in Spring 2020.

• Jazz
• World Music
• Roots
• Fusion