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01. Catherine Graindorge - Eurydice
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02. Catherine Graindorge - Small Trees
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03. Catherine Graindorge - Orpheus' Head
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04. Catherine Graindorge - Joan
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05. Catherine Graindorge - This Is A Dream
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06. Catherine Graindorge - The Unvisited Garden
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07. Catherine Graindorge - Where The Buzzards Fly
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08. Catherine Graindorge - Time Is Broken
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ARTIST
GRAINDORGE, CATHERINE
TITLE
Songs for the Dead
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TAK:TIL/GLITTERBEAT
CATALOG #
GB 153CD
GB 153CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
4/26/2024
Following her thrilling 2022 duo EP with
Iggy Pop
(
The Dictator
) Belgian composer/musician
Catherine Graindorge
returns with a luminous ensemble album. Instrumental and vocal songs of life, love and death. Inspired by mythologies and elegies from the Greeks to the Beats. Over the years, Catherine Graindorge has worked with an incredible cast of collaborators, including Iggy Pop,
Nick Cave
,
Hugo Race
, and producer
John Parish
(
PJ Harvey
). But for
Songs for the Dead
she wanted a small, tight ensemble, so she called on regular collaborators
Simon Ho
on keyboards, and bassist
Pascal Humbert
(
16 Horsepower
,
Lilium
,
Détroit
) who both know her and her music well. Best known as the vocalist with
And Also the Trees
, Jones's voice gives the lines gravity, a delivery between singing and speaking. "I recorded demos of the music I'd written and sent them to him," Graindorge recalls, "then he returned them with his ideas for the words. He understood what I was looking for." Things coalesced quickly, and by the time they went into the studio "almost everything was written, so we didn't need to discuss much. We took six days to record the album, then another five to complete the mixing." All the mixing was analogue, Graindorge explains because "it's warmer, and it makes more sense to me with my instruments and the way I write, acoustically on violin and viola. More like baroque music, in a way."
Songs for the Dead
is quite deliberately an album that gives space for the imagination, "where people can come and go in the music," Graindorge says. And there's plenty to explore in the stories of Orpheus and Eurydice and
Ginsberg
's dream meeting with
Joan Burroughs
. Myths ancient and modern. Legends and stories. "I like to tell a story," she says. "I come from theatre, and I'm also an actor. These are narratives, questions and answers that relate and connect to each other."
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