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With tales spun between two homes in the desert and the city, Mei Lai Swan is taking her place amongst the nation’s chanteuses for her finely crafted avant-indie-pop built on cello, loops, multi-instrumentalism, and the occasional electronica. Her entirely captivating and versatile voice weaves through stories that expose the utterly human and the sometimes unexpected, relflecting a penchant for creative experimenting and a healthy disregard for convention. Mei Lai cut her musical teeth as celtic fusion band Lothlorien’s violinist and as a session musician with acclaimed Melbourne artists such as Ned Collette, Carl Pannuzzo, and Love Outside Andromeda. She has performed on the international stage with Chamber Made Opera and occasionally composed for theatre, circus and film. With this wealth of experience behind her, in 2006 Mei Lai moved to Alice Springs to escape the big city and delve into community development work with remote Aboriginal communities. In her spare time she