Catherine AD ‘Going Wrong’
Here’s a sneak preview of Catherine AD’s forthcoming mini-album Communion. It’s now available to pre-order, including a special mechanical music box edition, which comes with hand-pressed sheet music via: http://catherinead.bandcamp.com. This Outsiderhood release will be available from all major digital download stores from October 17th 2011.
At the weekend, Catherine AD played Bestival and has forthcoming shows confirmed at The Ivy in London on October 6th supporting Patrick Wolf, and at Leylines Festival in Oxford on October 15th.
Catherine AD - ‘Going Wrong’ (free download)
More info about Communion…
In late spring of 2011, Liam Howe (Marina & the Diamonds, Emiliana Torrini, Sneaker Pimps) captured a new set of string-laden recordings by Catherine AD and her all female string section. Recorded live in a single Sunday at the legendary Church Studios in London’s Crouch End (once owned by the Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart and birthplace of Sweet Dreams, now owned by David Gray), Communion is a collection of songs stripped of drums and modern technology.
A concept born in part out of economic restrictions - “as my grandparents must have mislaid my trust fund down the Welsh coalmines…”, Catherine half-jokes, it is also testament to a love of the songwriters and studio methods of times past. As well as a reference to the former sacred function of the studio space, Communion takes its name from the idea of “sharing something between a group of musicians” and the numerous churches that Catherine and her strings had been playing in the run-up to the recording.
Credits
Cover image by Roberto Foddai
Released 17th October 2011 via Outsiderhood.
Recorded live at Church Studios, London on 20th March 2011.
The mini-album was mastered by Jon Astley (Tori Amos, Emmylou Harris), engineered by Richard Wilkinson (Magic Numbers) and recorded by Liam Howe (Marina & the Diamonds, Emiliana Torrini, Sneaker Pimps).
Strings: Vicky Falconer Pritchard (violin, saw, accordion, BVs), Mary Kelly (viola), Gillian Wood (cello).
Catherine AD: Voice, Steinway Grand Piano, Toy Piano, Flute, Wurlitzer.
Catherine A.D. at Live at Leeds festival in Holy Trinity Church by @StuartofLeeds via Songs For The Boy Who Wouldn’t Read Rilke
Plus new track, via Catherine’s latest mailout from her forthcoming mini-album Communion, Live at Church Studios…
Hype Machine #1: Catherine A.D. leaps above Daft Punk to top the HypeM chart. Thank you for all your support.
Catherine A.D. re-interprets/re-creates/remixes/covers Sleigh Bells’ ‘Run The Heart’.
Sometimes, when you least expect it, you find something ever so soothing, and yeah, it’s precisely what you need at that very moment in time. So enter Catherine ADtoday (who is no stranger to these pages), with a simple and sublime cover that’s intended to make you feel real feelings. There, I said it. My heart is warmed.
With this blanketed take on Sleigh Bells‘ Run the Heart, the songstress makes my knees go weak and my heart even softer. In other words…
...I love it.
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Catherine AD was featured on BBC 6Music as part of their In The City picks this year and - after a sprint down the motorway from Manchester - she was also interviewed live on BBC Introducing here ahead of her show at the Limelight Theatre ( - you can listen back to both shows for a limited time by clicking the links).
She also received lovely honourable mentions from the Quietus and CMU as a highlight of the conference.
Catherine AD plays the following shows this autumn:
25th September, LONDON, Union Chapel
Facebook event // Last FM event
14th October, MANCHESTER, In The City
In The City // Facebook Event
16th October, AYLESBURY, Limelight Theatre
Facebook Event // WeGotTickets
14th November, LONDON, The Garage
Facebook Event //
5th December, LONDON, Union Chapel
Last FM event //
Catherine AD plays a homecoming show on Saturday 16th October at the Limelight Theatre in Aylesbury.
Tickets available from: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/85672
@CatherineAD to play her first US show in LA next week. Info from the promoters as follows…
On August 2nd - Dark Dark Dark, Emily Lacy and Catherine AD. are going to play as a part of DDD’s west-coast tour.
We’re going to project some water-themed videos, and eat some delicious food from the ‘Swear On Our Friendship’ food collective snack-stand. Homemade pies, lemonade, summer rolls, popsicles +++ !
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summer night show - indoor picnic…
come!
Aug 2nd - 8:30pm
at Public Fiction (the avenue 50 mini-museum)
749 Avenue 50
Los Angeles CA 90042
6$ - all ages
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(For you westsiders who may not know: Dark Dark Dark are the talented musicians who were a part of “The Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea” - a boat project that the artist Swoon did down the Mississippi river, the Hudson Valley and in the Venice Biennial. They are also starring in the documentary “Flood Tides” which will be screened at the Hammer this Fall.)
http://www.myspace.com/darkdarkdarkband
http://www.myspace.com/emilylacyfolkmusic
http://www.myspace.com/catherinead
http://switchbacksea.org/
http://floodtidefilm.com/
