Catherine Graindorge

Catherine Graindorge is a Brussels-based violinist, violist, composer and actress. Since 2012 and the release of The Secret of us all, her first solo album, she has multiplied collaborations with artists such as Iggy Pop, John Parish, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Mark Lanegan, Hugo Race, Pascal Humbert and Bertrand Cantat, but also composed for dance, theatre and cinema. In April 2024, she launched her third album, Songs for the Dead, on Tak:Til (Glitterbeat Records). 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, Catherine weaves an intense musical tale, caught between light and shadow, anguish and hope, lyricism and introspection. To accompany her sensitive, textured strings, Catherine invites the deep, incarnate voice of Simon Huw Jones (And Also The Trees), the telluric bass of Pascal Humbert (16 Horsepower, Wovenhand, Lilium) and the delicate piano of Simon Ho. In a distant echo to the cinematographic flights of Max Richter or the flayed harmonies of Warren Ellis, somewhere between ambient, rock and neo-classical, the music on this new opus continues its singular, bewitching trajectory. http://www.catherinegraindorge.com/ https://www.instagram.com/catherinegraindorge/   Natasha Pirard is a musicologist and composer from Ghent. She released her album "Dream Cycles" in February 2024, marking her debut on the Ghent-based label DEEWEE. Natasha is fascinated by how and why sound makes us feel, the political implications of sound, noise pollution and the everyday sounds embedded in our immediate environment. "Dream Cycles" is a 120-minute exploration of sounds, loops, frequencies and waves, an eight- part musical cycle split into 15-minute sections across four cassettes (currently only available at her live shows), she believes, reflects on this notion of cyclical, rather than linear, time.  https://www.instagram.com/tashapirard/