Description
Label Review.
2019 album. Folk.
Our Overview.
Originally from Bettyhill on the far North Coast of Scotland, singer-songwriter Catherine Rudie has been named by BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction as ‘One to Watch’ for 2019 and on the strength of her debut album ‘The Möbius Kiss’, she does not fail to deliver. Catherine was originally a Gaelic singer and bagpipe player but has now turned all her attentions to creating contemporary folk music. ‘The Mobius Kiss’ was created in response to the twin losses of a long-term relationship and the dissolution of the creative world she had lived in for nearly a decade. As her home & studio were redeveloped into luxury flats and the related community of artists and musicians was broken up, she began to write songs which tried to make sense of the rapidly changing world she found herself in and that seemed to be rejecting her.
The name ‘Mobius Kiss’ comes from the title of a drawing by David Byrne, from his ‘Tree’ series. In the drawing, he lists many kinds of kisses and shows them in relationship with each other. The mix of very modern environments and instruments combined with Catherine’s childhood musical experiences in the remote North Coast of Scotland, playing the bagpipes in a community pipe band and singing traditional acapella Gaelic songs at local events, defines the unique sound of the album. The final production of the album was crafted in collaboration with Stephen Hodd (who has worked with Passenger and Lou Rhodes amongst others)
.“A message for our times” - Tom Robinson, BBC 6MUSIC
“We’re predicting big things in the year to come” - Nick Luscombe, The Late Junction, BBC RADIO 3
“It takes some self-confidence for any artist to lay her voice so bare on a recorded track. It is dynamic, distinct and really really impressive” - Neil March, Freshonthenet.co.uk