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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.

http://catherinead.com

‘Better Than Love’ (HURTS cover) by @CatherineAD.

Free MP3: http://catherinead.bandcamp.com/track/better-than-love-hurts-cover