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Katell's songs have been covered by Natalie Merchant and Gabriel Rios. She recently finished recording her 5th album after writing for the theatre during the last few years. Over the years, Katell has toured Europe and North America, playing her own, sold out gigs, as well as festivals including Glastonbury, Green Man, Reading, Roskilde, SXSW, and WOMAD. She played many concerts with Jeff Buckley, and has appeared at Carnegie Hall with Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass and David Byrne and at the Albert Hall with Natalie Merchant. Rolling Stone - “There’s a theory that certain musical frequencies affect people emotionally. Katell Keineg has found them. It’s damn near impossible to listen to her earthy and ethereal voice without feeling the spirit move you. Her shy, allusive songs combine the world weary romanticism of Leonard Cohen with Tim Buckley’s slurred incantations” The New York Times - “Katell Keineg has a voice so charged with feeling that it lifts everything she sings to the level of a primal wail” NME - “The arrangement of the song (Mama, You’ve Been On My Mind), leaves everybody in bits. There’s no instruments involved, which is something Sinead (O’ Connor) has done in the past, but now she’s got Katell Keineg singing in a heavenly counterpoint – exotic and sad like nothing I’ve heard before.” LA Times - “Conveying a nearly beatific sense of joy in performance”
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Katell Keineg Biography
Since the early nineties Keineg has been musically active in both Ireland and the United States, steadily emerging into one of the most inspiring and deeply moving performers around. Born in Brittany and brought up in Wales, Keineg now lives in Dublin and is a frequent visitor to New York. In 1993, while building her reputation for "conveying a nearly beatific sense of joy in performance"(Los Angeles Times), she released a seven-inch single called "Hestia" on Bob Mould's SOL record label. That same year, Keineg sang on Iggy Pop's American Caesar album and when he passed her single on to Elektra Records, they signed her and released "O Seasons O Castles".
Her second album "Jet" followed in 1997, co-produced with Eric Drew Feldman whose work with Captain Beefheart and PJ Harvey provided the perfect stimuli for Keineg, who was beginning to venture off the over trodden singer-songwriter path in search of artistic pastures new. The record garnered a whole host of stunning reviews. During this period Keineg provided the second vocal on Natalie Merchant's American hit single "Carnival", a favour returned when Merchant recorded Keineg's "The Gulf Of Araby".
The past 10 years have seen Keineg build herself a formidable live reputation. Her live shows have become a regular feature on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2002 she released a 4 track EP of new songs that included "High July" opening track "What's The Only Thing Worse Than The End Of Time?" and a breathtaking live version of Nick Drake's haunting "River Man" recorded from a Drake tribute concert held at St Anne's Church in Brooklyn NY. In their review of the night The New York Times declared her "...a young songwriter due for her own cult, who travelled the fine edge between rapture and loss so essential to Mr Drake's art."
Following the release of a second E.P. (Shaking The Disease), Keineg released "High July", her third album, in late 2004 to further enthusiastic reviews. A re-recorded version of "On Yer Way" from that album was used on the soundtrack of Deborah Kampmeier's film "Virgin" starring Robin Wright Penn, also in 2004.
Read MoreHer second album "Jet" followed in 1997, co-produced with Eric Drew Feldman whose work with Captain Beefheart and PJ Harvey provided the perfect stimuli for Keineg, who was beginning to venture off the over trodden singer-songwriter path in search of artistic pastures new. The record garnered a whole host of stunning reviews. During this period Keineg provided the second vocal on Natalie Merchant's American hit single "Carnival", a favour returned when Merchant recorded Keineg's "The Gulf Of Araby".
The past 10 years have seen Keineg build herself a formidable live reputation. Her live shows have become a regular feature on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2002 she released a 4 track EP of new songs that included "High July" opening track "What's The Only Thing Worse Than The End Of Time?" and a breathtaking live version of Nick Drake's haunting "River Man" recorded from a Drake tribute concert held at St Anne's Church in Brooklyn NY. In their review of the night The New York Times declared her "...a young songwriter due for her own cult, who travelled the fine edge between rapture and loss so essential to Mr Drake's art."
Following the release of a second E.P. (Shaking The Disease), Keineg released "High July", her third album, in late 2004 to further enthusiastic reviews. A re-recorded version of "On Yer Way" from that album was used on the soundtrack of Deborah Kampmeier's film "Virgin" starring Robin Wright Penn, also in 2004.
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