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fROOTS Magazine 

fROOTs Magazine - April 2013

Katie Rose is, quite simply, a superb singer and the inventiveness of these arrangements marks the maker of Empty Cup out as something much more than just a talented folkie tarting-up her trad repertoire with a few 'edgy' bleeps and beats. This is your actual English traditional soul music.

- Stephen Hunt, fROOTS Magazine

http://www.therosewindow.org/fROOTs review.pdf

 

 FATEA Magazine - April 2013

stunning vocal aerobatics could not in isolation be considered so crucial an element in the success of any contemporary album of reworked traditional song, and Katie's gorgeously urbanised take on tradition relies equally as much - if not more - on keenly imaginative musical arrangement for its impact. - David Kidman

http://www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazine/KatieRose.html

 

Bright Young Folk - March 2013

With its relaxed and meditative feel, this is an album which will leave you feeling that the glass is in fact half full. - Lucy Houlden

http://www.brightyoungfolk.com/gigs/empty-cup-katie-rose/record-detail.aspx

 

The Fortnightly-ish Review


Fortnightly-ish Review - March 2013

Molly Bawn, her take on Polly Vaughan, is intensely appealing, a swirl of sound with the voice as icing, and her Quite Silent works superbly, ripping the song away from its past.  - Chris Nickson
http://fortnightlyish.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/maya-and-ruins-katie-rose-oh-and-nick.html

Prediction Magazine

Prediction Magazine - February 2013

Singer songwriter Katie Rose is a delicious
blend of Kate Bush and English rose with
a spiritual sprinkle on the top. Her vocal
chords, which spiral around sacred mantras
that she's plucked from all corners of the East, could
charm the most petulant of snakes.
- Gemma Birss, Prediction Magazine 

 http://www.therosewindow.org/PRED_FEB_045.pdf

Positive News 

 Positive News - 8th Jan 2013

Basement Jaxx lead sound healing party - article by Robin Robinson

"a spiritual songstress who enchanted the crowd"

 

Kindred Spirit

 Kindred Spirit - Issue 119. Nov/Dec 12

This Angelic Issue features my song Angel in the Music section as a free download for readers.

Angel Music Article by Anadi Taylor of Sounds Orange

fROOTS Magazine 

 fROOTs - Aug/Sept 2012 

Pamela Wyn Shannon's Moss Mantra is a tour de force. whispering the mosses over dark backing, equalled by Katie Rose, who mingles three witches' songs and chants in different voices: Witches Reel - included on this issue's fRoots 40 Compilation - is a come-all-ye invitation to ancient wickedness.

Ian Kearey, Review of Weirdlore.

Terrascope 

Terrascope, Reviews for June 2012

The strangest, most eccentric contribution to this exquisite and revelatory compilation, though, comes courtesy of Katie Rose's "Witches Reel". Heck, no self-respecting weird/wyrd/alt etc collection would be complete without referencing "the goddess" and as such Katie gets to carry the team flag. It's spooky, it's odd, it is highly singular and a resounding hit with this coven's jukebox jury. 

Ian Fraser, Review of 'Weirdlore'

 

OM Magazine Issue 19  - March 2012

My article 'Good Vibration - 'How the yoga of voice stretches the mind, body and spirit in all directions'

featured in this edition of

Om Magazine


Click here to read it

http://www.therosewindow.org/Good Vibrations - OM.pdf 

Kindred Spirit

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." 

 Click here to read the whole article:

 http://www.therosewindow.org/KS sound feature Nov Dec 2011.pdf

The Transmitter  

The Transmitter
Crystal Palace, June Issue 2011 (No 18)

This photoshoot, video and article featured Catherine Pestano myself and Sing Your Heart Out Singers at Antenna Studios.

"Singing for Wellbeing: Katie Rose & Catherine Pestano run an uplifting daytime sound and voice group at Antenna Studios."

http://www.thetransmitter.co.uk/

 

Lightworker Magazine

May & June 2011

My Sound Medicine Boxes featured in these two editions of Lightworker Magazine.

 

 Folk and RootsFolk & Roots
Review of Echoes from the Mountain
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

 

fROOTS Magazine

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

  

 Shindig!

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

 

fROOTS Magazine

 
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