Catherine Graindorge

Known for her collaborations with artists such as Iggy Pop, John Parish or Nick Cave, violinist Catherine Graindorge released her new solo album, 'Songs For The Dead'on the tak:til label (Glitterbeat).
Taking as her starting point Allen Ginsberg's poem 'A Dream Record", in which he recounts a dream encounter with his late friend Joan Burroughs, and the myth of Orpheus who wanted to bring Eurydice back to the living, Catherine weaves an intense musical tale, caught between light and shadow, anguish and hope, lyricism and introspection.

To accompany her sensitive, textured strings, always poignant, Catherine invites the deep, incarnate voice of Simon Huw Jones from And Also The Trees, the telluric bass of Cyrille de Haes and the delicate piano of Simon Ho*. Somewhere between ambient, rock and neo-classical, the music on this new opus continues its singular, bewitching trajectory.