KINDRED SPIRIT - Issue 113. Nov 11
How Sound Creates Form - Helena Foss
Music and patterns are inextricably linked, as Helena Foss explains in this fascinating look at sound forms.
Featuring the work of Thomas & Stuart Mitchell, The Rosslyn Motet, Ernst Chladni, John Stuart Reid, Erik Larsen, Stellar, Jill Purce & Katie Rose.
"If the world really has been 'sung into being', maybe we can it sing it back to health too - back to the original, harmonious sound patterns of creation." - www.kindredspirit.co.uk
Click here to read the whole article:
http://www.therosewindow.org/KS sound feature Nov Dec 2011.pdf
The Transmitter, Crystal Palace, June 2011
The Transmitter Music Shoot from Andy Pontin on Vimeo.
This photoshoot included Sing Your Heart Out Singers at Antenna Studios.
Read the June Issue (No 18) including a feature on Musical Suspects - resident musicians in Crystal Palace featuring Catherine Pestano and myself at http://www.thetransmitter.co.uk/
Various Artists - ECHOES FROM THE
MOUNTAIN (Rif Mountain RM-008)
Very few tribute albums measure up to their subject in every respect,
but Echoes From The Mountain is one such, without a doubt. ... As far as I'm concerned, the wyrder
the better - and the disc's first offering, Starless And Bible
Black's brilliantly managed psychedelic take on Hunt &
Turner's Silver Lady is a stunner in anyone's book, with Jane
Weaver's spectrally scratched, primordial account of Death (which I
too first encountered on Sun Also Rises' eerie VT version) and Katie
Rose's superbly delicate, precise intoning of Dave Evans' Grey
Lady Morning both easily equalling that opening gambit. - David Kidman
Review in fROOTs Oct/Nov 2010
Echoes from the Mountain - Various Artists - Rif Mountain
Katie Rose pretty well scoops the jackpot with Dave Evans's Grey Lady Morning. The original is special, but Rose's stretched, wavering vocal over sparse tampuri drone is an eye (and ear) opener.
Ian Kearney
Revi
ew in SHINDIG Sept/Oct 2010
Five traditional tracks, interestingly arranged and lovingly
rendered, come courtesy of FOL-DE-ROSE on her self-titled EP (Rose
Window). The author of the project, Katie Rose, is interested in the folk
song as performance, therapy and ritual and these aspects all come through on
her EP, from the train sound effects on 'In The Pines' to the serenity of
'Barbra'. This is one for the more tranquil moments of summer.
Jeanette Leech - www.shindig-magazine.com
Review in fROOTS Magazine Aug/Sept 2010
Limited-edition EP of Katie's folkie quest follows her wandersome (seemingly) wilfully arty excursion through some trad folk staples (and Heart Like a Wheel). Initial unfavourable impressions are dissipated on closer acquaintance, as subsequent plays reveal intelligence within the idiosyncrasies, and by the tangy, mesmeric finale Sweet Primroses you'll be totally hooked.