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Kety Fusco drops ‘SHE’ ft. Iggy Pop
“Both evocative and frightening, triggering brand new emotions that have never been explored before with harp music.”– Wonderland Magazine
“Most compelling is the steampunk techno she creates by treating her wooden harp with hairpins, wax and sticky tape, like a prepared piano, to create percussive effects”– The Guardian
With her second studio album, ‘BOHÈME’, Kety Fusco transforms the harp into an entirely new voice, redefining what this instrument can represent in the contemporary music landscape. This is not just music: it’s a vision. It’s an invitation to explore a sound world that has never existed before.
Every sound in ‘BOHÈME’, which follows acclaim for Kety’s music from BBC 6 Music, The Guardian, Wonderland and more in the UK, originates from the harp, yet nothing is as it seems. Sound manipulations, underwater recordings, and unconventional techniques create a unique musical language, far from traditional boundaries. Among the boldest experiments, Kety literally submerged herself in a pool to record the sounds of the harp underwater, turning the instrument into a medium for narrating the unexpected. This daring approach shines in the opening track, ‘Hi, this is Harp’, a manifesto of sonic avant-garde.
The second single to come from ‘BOHÈME’ was born from an urgency. An impulse Kety Fusco couldn’t ignore. “When Iggy Pop spoke about my album THE HARP – CHAPTER I on the BBC, he said something that shook me to the core: “The harp is not heard as much””, explains Kety. “It felt like he was speaking directly to me. To the harp I carry in my heart, to my vision, to my voice and those words awakened something deep: the need to make the harp heard. To give it space, body, freedom. So, I took Iggy’s voice. I listened to it over and over. I chose some of his words the way you obsess over a single detail. I wove them into my music—instinctively, almost physically. ‘SHE’ was born as an intimate, personal gesture. A small secret that connected my soul to his voice”.
‘SHE’, which Craig Charles, Riley & Coe and Radcliffe & Maconie have already been spinning on BBC 6 Music, is a powerful encounter between two worlds. Two extremes that touch, recognize, and merge with one another. This track is a love letter to the harp. A way to say: “I see you, I hear you, I’m taking you further”. It’s also a challenge: to break the rules, to tear down the borders, and to make the harp resonate in spaces where it has never dared to go. “I expected nothing. But when I sent the track to Iggy, he replied. Not only with his approval, but with his authentic presence. His voice came alive in the piece, and my world opened up. ‘SHE’ is my heart, my skin, my revolution. And Iggy Pop’s voice is a living part of it”, Kety further adds.
The video for ‘SHE’ is set in a world long abandoned, where a drone hovers, desperately searching for traces of life, while fragile, ancient harmonies—like those of a harp—echo in the void. Like the drone, ‘SHE’ moves through a forgotten sonic landscape, chasing lost vibrations to give new voice to an ancient instrument, making it bold, alive, and free. ‘SHE’ is not just a track: it is a quest, a rebirth, a response to the silence of a forsaken world.
Discovering the harp at just 6 years old, Kety Fusco’s magnetic talent has now taken her to iconic stages such as the Royal Albert Hall, the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Swiss Federal Parliament, and the prestigious Euro Jazz Festival in Mexico. With over 200 concerts worldwide, Kety has redefined the role of the harp, bringing it to the most unexpected contexts: from the Notte della Taranta to the United Nations, and even on a tour of South America for the Swiss Embassies.
An unstoppable composer and creator, Kety has written soundtracks for a film and a documentary set to be released in 2025, as well as composed the theme music for the Rai Radio3 program Voci in Barcaccia. Her original works are a manifesto of artistic freedom, captivating audiences with their fusion of tradition and avant-garde. In 2024, she served as the Swiss juror for the Eurovision Song Contest, adding another milestone to her path of international excellence. The year 2025 promises to be a year of great achievements: in September, ‘BOHÈME’ will be released and with her collaboration with Iggy Pop on ‘SHE’, Kety Fusco is solidifying her place as a revolutionary figure in the global music scene.
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SCARECROW’s John Blaze Delivers a Career Milestone With “Twisted” and Earns Josie Music Awards Song of the Year Nomination
John Blaze has spent nearly four decades fronting SCARECROW, the New York hard-rock outfit he founded in 1989, and in 2026 he delivered one of the most ambitious releases of his career with “Twisted.” Now, the song has reached another major milestone: “Twisted” has been nominated for Song of the Year in the Metal/Alternative category at the Josie Music Awards.
The nomination places Blaze and SCARECROW among this year’s recognized independent artists and songwriters at the Josie Music Awards, with the awards ceremony set to take place at Nashville’s legendary Grand Ole Opry. For an artist whose career has been built on persistence, independence and decades of hard-rock storytelling, the recognition gives “Twisted” an entirely new chapter.
Written by John Blaze and Chaffin, “Twisted” pulls together a lineup of guest players that reads like a rock family reunion, built around Blaze’s long-standing friendship with Dee Snider and the legacy of Twisted Sister, a band woven into SCARECROW’s story from its earliest days.
That connection goes all the way back to the beginning. SCARECROW’s original lineup featured guitarist Eddie Ojeda, best known for his work in Twisted Sister, and the two camps have remained connected ever since. “Twisted” makes that history explicit: Dee Snider appears on the record with guest vocals during the track’s climactic second verse and chorus, lending the song an instantly recognizable jolt of arena-rock power.
Snider isn’t the only marquee name in the credits. Mark Wood, founding violinist of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, contributes electrifying violin work that gives “Twisted” a cinematic sweep uncommon in modern hard rock. Rounding out the track are TJ Jordan on lead guitar and Bobby Marks on drums, creating a powerful, road-tested foundation behind Blaze’s signature gritty vocal delivery.
The Josie Music Awards nomination feels particularly fitting because “Twisted” isn’t simply another SCARECROW release. It brings together different eras of Blaze’s musical life while pushing the band’s sound forward. There’s history in the recording, but there’s also urgency. It doesn’t sound like a band looking backward. It sounds like one with unfinished business.
For Blaze, the nomination also represents recognition of a career that has largely been built outside the traditional machinery of the mainstream music business. Independent rock artists rarely survive for decades without a fierce commitment to what they do, and SCARECROW’s longevity speaks for itself. From the band’s early years and its 1991 debut, through the Blood, Sweat and 20 Years retrospective and the theatrical production I Am SCARECROW, Blaze has continued developing a world around the music rather than simply releasing songs.
That makes the Song of the Year nomination especially meaningful. After nearly four decades of building SCARECROW, Blaze now heads to the Josie Music Awards at the Grand Ole Opry with one of his most ambitious songs recognized in the Metal/Alternative category.
And there’s something wonderfully appropriate about the song that got him there.
“Twisted” connects SCARECROW’s beginnings to its present, reunites Blaze musically with figures tied to the band’s history, and demonstrates just how much fire remains in the project. With Snider and Wood contributing to the record and Blaze still driving the band he created from the ground up, the track feels less like a nostalgic reunion than a statement of survival.
Now it’s also an award-nominated song.
For John Blaze and SCARECROW, nearly four decades into the journey, “Twisted” has become more than another entry in the catalog. It’s a career milestone — and this September, that milestone is taking SCARECROW all the way to the Grand Ole Opry.
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