Haiku Salut

Haiku Salut are an instrumental dream-pop-post-folk-neo-everything trio from the Derbyshire Dales. The group consists of multi-instrumentalists Gemma Barkerwood, Sophie Barkerwood, and Louise Croft. Between them, Haiku Salut play accordion, piano, glockenspiel, trumpet, guitar, ukulele, drums, and melodica. Their music also features electronic elements, which they refer to as “loopery and laptopery”.

As part of the Hexagon Experiment at the Great Exhibition of the North in 2018, we commissioned the band to create nine original tracks exploring creativity in the age of robotics and artificial intelligence, in collaboration with the Robot Orchestra.