Maaike Siegerist

Dutch singer-songwriter Maaike Siegerist [My·kuh Seeger·ist] relocated to the UK to study music after an inspiring songwriting retreat in Dumfries and Galloway in 2013. Now based in Glasgow, she works across genres — from acoustic jazz and folk rock to electronica — writing story-telling songs about travels, love, remarkable people, animals, and space. Her work has earned multiple songwriting awards and praise from BBC Radio 6’s Tom Robinson for her “delicate vocal, poised production, gorgeous chord changes.”

Maaike is launching her new space-themed EP, Starbound, at the Glasgow Science Festival on 10 June. Its first single, Cosmonaut, is a portrait of a solitary spacefarer orbiting the Earth, admiring our planet and the stars from a distance, set against atmospheric jazz chords. Or maybe… the whole song is a metaphor. Out on Friday, 9 May.

Maaike is also the vocalist of Scottish prog rock band, Long Earth, and has a second solo project as <a href="spotify:artist:0jEDOCQLdPCimm0UXmjxNP" data-name="Dora Lachaise">Dora Lachaise</a>, creating haunting and otherworldly music.

Space photo credits: <a href="spotify:artist:7wzj4ZZQw61xzfSOStclg8" data-name="Jonni Slater">Jonni Slater</a> / ESA/Hubble &amp; NASA (background)