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

www.frootsmag.com

 


Review 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.

 www.frootsmag.com