CATHERINE GRAINDORGE + Jessica Moss

Catherine Graindorge
Known for her collaborations with artists such as Iggy Pop, John Parish or Nick Cave, violinist Catherine Graindorge will release her new solo album, “Songs For The Dead”, on April 26 on the tak:til label (Gliterbeat). 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 (And Also The Trees), Cyrille de Haes on (double) bass 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.

Jessica Moss
A violinist who is an integral part of the Montréal underground and independent music scene. Part of the Constellation Records family since its inception, she’s best known as a permanent member of Silver Mt Zion. She was also a founding member of Black Ox Orkestar, has a long-term creative history with Carla Bozulich, and had a key-role on Vic Chestnutt’s albums on the label.
She has collaborated extensively with New York based film maker Jem Cohen and his Gravity Hill project along with Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White) and Matana Roberts amongst others.