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He included the track on a self-made chill-out compilation Civil Defense entitled Cained and chose it for the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 programme "Desert Island Discs" which aired on 20 December 2009.
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Zoe Johnston
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Johnston is best known for her vocal contributions to Faithless, Above & Beyond, Bent, and Delerium. Johnston made her debut in 1999 when she was featured on a number of tracks from Neon Heights" house album A View from the Heights. At the same time, Johnston was writing for Bent"s debut album Programmed to Love.
She wrote the song "Private Road" on which she performs guitar and vocals and co-wrote the song "Swollen", which the British actor Michael Caine later proclaimed to be "one of the most romantic songs in chill music I"ve ever heard".
Almost without exception Johnston has written all of her own lyrics and vocal parts even when collaborating with other acts. She has a 1st Class Bachelor Honours degree in Journalism and Film.
She is also a photo-realist painter. Her vocal contribution to "Swollen" caught the attention of Faithless member Rollo Armstrong who initially believed her voice had been sampled from a recording in the 1940s.
This led to Johnston singing on the Faithless album Outrospective, released by BMG in 2001.
She performed for eighteen months with the group throughout their world tour to promote the album. Johnston has written and performed with Paul Heaton of The Beautiful South. She sang "Poems" with him on his first solo venture as "Biscuit Boy" (2002) and later again as his partner on "Little Red Rooster" in 2008.
She has been featured heavily in Above & Beyond"s albums Group Therapy (2011) and We Are All We need (2015).
