Catherine graindorge biography

Catherine Graindorge is a.
Catherine Graindorge is a belgian violinist, violist, composer and actress.
Catherine Graindorge started to play violin and theater when she was a child.

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Biography Catherine Graindorge

Catherine Graindorge
is a Belgian violinist, violist and composer. Produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Rokia Traoré), Eldorado is her second solo album and her first for Glitterbeat's tak:til imprint. Gorgeous and haunting, Graindorge uses strings, harmonium and electronic treatments to explore intimate corners and widescreen vistas.

Eldorado. People believed it was the city of gold. A fable, a legend that pushed the conquistadors further and further across a continent in search of riches. A myth. A grail. Eldorado was all of those things and more. Over the centuries it’s become a word weighted down by so many meanings, layer upon layer of possibility and expectation. But it can also be a place to find hope and solace and discover dreams. That’s the music of this Eldorado, the second solo album from Belgian violinist and composer Catherine Graindorge.

Although she’s best-known for her collaborations - with a range of artists from Nick Cave to Mark Lanegan, as well as her work as part of Nile on waX, and for the music she’s written

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Catherine Graindorge

She worked with international artists such as Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Mark Lanegan, Debbie Harry
(The Jeffrey Lee Pierce sessions project), and Pascal Humbert (16Horsepower). In September 2022 she released a 4-track EP featuring Iggy Pop, The Dictator, on Glitterbeat. And on 26 April 2024 she released her newest album Songs for the Dead, also on Gliiterbeat. This album is a special project: apart from her longtime accompanist Simon Ho, Catherine Graindorge collaborates on this album with Simon Huw Jones (And Also The Trees) and Pascal Humbert (16 Horsepower).

Catherine’s music is a kind of psychedelic soundtrack: an immersive, intense and drone-like
soundscape charged with underlying tension that needs to explode, just like a volcano on the brink of
eruption.

Apart from her project Songs for the Dead, that she performs live with a quartet, Catherine Graindorge performs as a solo artist or as a duo with Simon Ho. In these solo and duo shows she not only plays material from her earlier records like Eldorado and The Dictator, but also from he

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CATHERINE GRAINDORGE & GUESTS: SONGS FOR THE DEAD

Since 2012 and the release of her first solo album « The Secret of us all », the Brussels-based violinist and composer Catherine Graindorge has collaborated with artists such as John Parish, Hugo Race, Pascal Humbert and Bertrand Cantat (Detroit), Warren Ellis and Nick Cave (Jeffrey Lee Pierce Project), but also composed for theater and cinema - with a Magritte nomination for her soundtrack of « Le Chant des Hommes ».

In October 2021, she released a new solo album « Eldorado » recorded with the legendary John Parish on the Tak:Til label (Glitterbeat Records). In September 2022, she released a 4-track EP, « The Dictator », with the iconic Iggy Pop (Glitterbeat).

In a distant echo to the cinematographic flights of a Max Richter or to the flayed harmonies of a Warren Ellis, she continues her timeless journey with a new creation in collaboration with Simon Huw Jones (And Also the Trees), Pascal Humbert (16Horsepower, Lilium) and Simon Ho.