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Catherine AD is now making music at The Anchoress: https://soundcloud.com/theanchoress

Self-produced British composer and recording artist for 25 years, Imogen Heap has released five solo albums, another as one half of Frou Frou and collaborated with countless and varied artists including Taylor Swift, Nitin Sawhney, Deadmau5, Eric Whitacre, Jeff Beck and Jon Hopkins. Her compositions and songs pop up in blockbuster and indie films as well as countless TV shows, are featured in underground rap and dance music and covered by the likes of Ariana Grande. As composer and arranger for one of the biggest hits in theatrical history, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, Imogen won the Drama Desk Outstanding Music in a Play award. As a sought-after speaker and performer, Heap hosted 2020’s Grammys Premiere Ceremony. Heap’s collaborative and multi-dimensional workflow attracts companies for commissioned works, leading to songs such as Tiny Human, the first song to distribute payments via a Smart Contract, and The Happy Song, a highly successful song for children in their early-years. Heap, recognised as an artist's artist, has won two Grammys and an Ivor Novello award. In recognition of her pioneering work at the intersection of music and tech, Heap has a hat trick of three honorary doctorates for the gestural music-ware 'MI.MU gloves' system and recently for ’The Creative Passport’, an integrated digital ID solution, empowering music makers to be the change toward a fair and flourishing music ecosystem. Between projects a constant for the past year is every Thursday afternoon, Imogen Q&A chats with her fans via The Listening Chair with those who subscribe to Imogenheap.app to collaborate together on Augmented Imogen, Imogen's in dev AI.

Founded in the UK in 2008, The Quietus is one of the world’s leading independent websites for quality longform writing on visionary and modernist music and culture, covering all genres with an equal weighting.

The Quietus treats the emerging artists of the genre-melting present with the same reverence the mainstream reserves for the stale canon of yesteryear. We look to reappraise and revitalise those artistic pioneers abandoned in the hinterland.

We champion trailblazing and illuminating cultural journalism from around the world – numerous successful writers and broadcasters are first published on our pages.

After years held back by a creaking old website, The Quietus (tQ to our friends) has been regenerated, providing an indispensable portal to a realm of cultural discovery, devilment and debate.

“The Quietus believes in the power of cultural criticism to cut through the noise of social media and the ultimately disappointing guidance of tech platform algorithms. To write down a series of words that have never been combined before, expressing a complex series of emotions, thoughts and experiences that unites writer and reader at a level that feels telepathic and changes the joint experience of reality: That is the definition of magic.” – tQ Co-founder John Doran.

Sophie Barker’s distinctive and critically acclaimed vocal range, paired with her emotional song-writing skills, have yielded world-wide chart-topping singles, million-selling albums and music collaborations with artists as diverse as David Guetta, Zero 7, Groove Armada, The Egg and Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins).

Having formed her first group at 9 years of age, as a teenager, Sophie went on to write and perform songs with her guitar at venues across the UK. After completing her degree at UCL, she moved beyond her mid-90s record deal with Sony, to join down-tempo lounge wizards, Zero 7, and co-wrote their huge hit ‘Destiny’ with Sia Furler. 

Her evocative vocal delivery and charismatic stage presence became an integral part of the Zero 7 sound and live show. Capitalising on her fan base, she began to release as a solo artist. Her first two albums ’Earthbound’ (2005) and ‘Seagull’ (2011) gained support from DJs as varied as Don Letts and Janice Long with radio plays on BBC 6music and Radio 2 among a plethora of other stations.

Her long-awaited 3rd solo album, ’Break the Habit’ took 4 years to record but sees her more comfortable than ever in her own skin. Undoubtedly her best work to date, the LP effortlessly flows between her upfront live sound, finely-honed from intense touring and appearances with her band at festivals and venues across the UK and USA, and more atmospheric, mood-driven electronica.

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 "...equal parts prog and pop,  oddball & accessible."  NME
"...a flawless and sophisticated hyper-literate pop record." GQ
 "...delightfully theatrical and sharp as a bloody blade. Wales' much more explicitly feminist answer to Lana Del Rey.” ANN POWERS, NPR
“...a literate, ambitious and engrossing return... a brooding yet patiently anthemic cut.” CLASH
 “...as comfortable at CBGB’s as in Broadway theatres.” LES INROCKUPTIBLES
"... a sprawl of dark southern gothic."  THE QUIETUS
"...Davies is making music like nobody else at the moment."  NME 
“...a dark, intricate and intelligent debut… an album of distinctive sound and ambitious ideals.” LOUDER THAN WAR 

an·cho·ress [ang-ker-is] noun
A woman who is an anchorite - a person who lives in seclusion, esp a religious recluse; hermit; one who has retired from the world.

The Anchoress is a new project from Welsh multi-instrumentalist Catherine Anne Davies.

Tom Elliot Morris has a long and sprawling history in music. He has toured far and wide alone as well as with his band, the critically acclaimed Her Name is Calla.

Additional work includes TV and film credits such as Bachelor Games (2016) the BAFTA winning Channel 4/Warp films drama Southcliffe (2013), writing sessions with the likes of Bella Hardy, Ed Harcourt and Fiona Bevan, writing for US based singer Angela McCluskey as well as mixing/mastering and contributing to the Yellow Bird Project compilation, (King Creosote, Dry The River, etc).

He can often be found sampling ales around Leeds or building extravagant Lego models with his family.

Press

“The words, the music, the voice – all those components build such an intimate atmosphere...” Echoes and Dust

“Exquisite songwriting...something fragile yet extraordinarily powerful" The 405

"...the best singer-songwriter to come out of Leicester for years." PennyBlack Music

“At his best, Morris sounds fragile, brooding and melancholic, his voice haunting. Having an impressive vocal range certainly helps, and he uses it to forge an atmosphere of quiet intensity.” - Whisperin and Hollerin

Enjoy new Buffetlibre's cover EP 'Elaine's Ghosts' for Oxfam-Intermon, feat. Dragontte, Ed Harcourt, Jay Jay Johansson, I'm From Barcelona and Catherine AD. 
Also You can listen debut LP 'Songs For Elaine' feat. Micah P. Hinson, We Have Band, NIck Krill from Spinto Band and others (Subterfuge and Tommy Boy Records) and some of Buffetlibre's Remixes here. 


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