O U T S I D E R HOOD

Catherine AD 

Reprise: The Covers Collection

Released: June 25th 2012

“Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful… genius in fact!” - ROB DA BANK
“Like an Anglo-Celtic Tori Amos discovering the joys of Michael Nyman…A mini album that’s really worth crying about” - 8/10 - NME
“A phenomenal talent!” - HUW STEPHENS
“A leftfield hit in the making” - DAN CAIRNS, THE SUNDAY TIMES
“This songstress makes my knees go weak and my heart even softer…” - SHEENA BEASTON

Following the release of mini album, Communion (which the NME named one of its twenty best “Cult Albums of 2011”) and ahead of the release of her full-length debut this winter, Catherine AD’s Reprise brings together a selection of her reinterpretations and cover versions. Featuring eleven songs recorded at home on her laptop, the collection includes a 12 vocal-layered interpretation of Sleigh Bells’ ‘Run the Heart’, and the Sunday Times featured ‘one woman choir’ reworking of Hurts’ ‘Better Than Love’.

Catherine recorded and played all but one of the instruments across the 11 tracks, compiling the collection after injuring her hand during sessions for her album, leaving her able to use only her left hand, unable to play the piano for 5 months. After three DIY EPs, which she’s been drip-dropping into the world whilst finishing university, her creative force has already found favour at the Sunday Times, NME, Daily Mirror and Clash Magazine, as well as with some of America’s most influential bloggers. Her songs have already enjoyed airplay with Lauren Laverne (6Music), Rob Da Bank (Radio1) and Steve Lamacq (Radio2) and she has played with the likes of Anna Calvi, Martha Wainwright, and Cold Specks. She will be playing a special show with her string section on June 15th at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and appearing at both the Hay and Latitude festivals this summer.

Reprise will be released on OUTSIDERHOOD on 25th June 2012.

For more info contact: info@outsiderhood.com 

TRACKLISTING
1. Better Than Love (Hurts)
2. Run The Heart (Sleigh Bells)
3. Paris (Friendly Fires)
4. The Wolves (Act I and II) (Bon Iver)
5. I Have Never Loved Someone (My Brightest Diamond)
6. Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
7. He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) (The Crystals)
8. The Book Of Love (Magnetic Fields)
9. Black Eyed Dog (Nick Drake)
10. Wild is the Wind (Nina Simone)
11. Baby Can I Hold You (Tracy Chapman)

LIVE DATES
9th June, HowtheLightGetsIn, HAY-ON-WYE - www.howthelightgetsin.org
15th June, National Portrait Gallery, LONDON - www.npg.org
13th - 15th July, Latitude Festival, SOUTHWOLD - www.latitudefestival.co.uk

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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.

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