Christine Tobin launches “heroic” album at London Jazz Festival.

Tuesday, November 03, 2026

Singer-composer Christine Tobin will launch her latest album, Pseudologia Fantastica at World Heart Beat in Nine Elms on Saturday 21st November 2026 as part of EFG London Jazz Festival.

We have received the following press release;

Tobin launches “heroic” album at London Jazz Festival

Singer-composer Christine Tobin launches her latest album, Pseudologia Fantastica at World Heart Beat in Nine Elms on Saturday 21st November as part of EFG London Jazz Festival.

Meaning ‘pathological liar’ Pseudologia Fantastica is a collection of eighteen short pieces that navigate the current sea of disinformation and misappropriation of new technologies.

“Over recent years our perception of the world and sense of reality, of what is true or false is gradually unravelling,” says Tobin. “It has been eroded with the emergence of new phrases such as ‘alternative facts’, and a rolling, bludgeoning, narrative where all is back to front and upside down.”

UK Jazz News has described the album and Tobin’s need to create such a work as “heroic”.

And reviewing Pseudologia Fantastica for Jazzviews, Jon Vernon wrote: “Tobin has delivered some wonderful music during her career but perhaps nothing quite so important as this.”

For the album launch Tobin will be joined by the two musicians who assisted her in the recording, with Kate Shortt playing cello and Phil Robson contributing guitar and electronics. As well as spoken word and her acclaimed, distinctive and darkly affecting singing voice, the album features Tobin on keyboards, electronics and tongue drum.

Conceived and recorded with the support of the Improvised Music Company’s BAN BAM commissions award, Pseudologia Fantastica, says Tobin, “is a dedication to those who are suffering in these times, a contribution to the resistance and a prayer for a kinder future.”

Pseudologia Fantastica is released on Trail Belle Records and is available via Bandcamp at https://christinetobin.bandcamp.com/album/pseudologia-fantastica

Album launch tickets and information here: https://worldheartbeat.org/whats-on/event/double-bill-christine-tobin-pseudologia-fantastica-brian-eley-ashley-waless-songs/