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Isolation Etude 3  (In fear every day, every evening)

MATT MEREPORT - Isolation Etude 3  (In fear every day, every evening)

Operation Lightfoot is an ongoing series of collaborations featuring guest songwriters and musicians.  The project's founder and artistic director is composer Luke Moore (soundcloud.com/lukemooremusic) .

In addition to several commissions to write new music, Operation Lightfoot are recording their debut album "Alignments" which features a range of artists from different genres.  With the emphasis as much on process - working outside a comfort zone - as the end result, each collaboration is an exciting and rewarding way of approaching songwriting.

Live performances regularly incorporate strings, brass and wind players alongside the regular band set up, blending music with a mixture of projections, visual artists, film makers, photographers and dancers, tailored to match each piece. 



Life-affirming Mancunian electro-pop"
-  Tom Robinson BBC 6Music
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"That has Manchester's musical heritage running right through it like the writing in rock"
-  Guy Garvey (Elbow)  BBC 6Music

"Lush"
-  John Kennedy  Radio X

Test Card Girl is a solo project by new Manchester indie singer-songwriter Catherine Burgis. Having grown increasingly frustrated with an admin-based existence, and wishing to conquer a life-long fear of singing in public, Catherine embarked on a country-wide tour as a musical comedian in 2018 complete with novelty miniature keyboard. Winning awards (North West Comedian of the Year, Frog and Bucket 2018, Funny Women Semi-Finalist 2019, Beat the Gong Winner, The Arc, Stockton 2019) and growing in confidence as a singer, she performed her first (and last) gig as solo synth-folk artist Test Card Girl in February 2020, with all subsequent gigs immediately being cancelled due to the dawning of a global pandemic.
 
With live performance not possible, Catherine turned her attention to recording and released her first single 'Holds Me Down' in 2020. The single was picked up by BBC 6Music, Radio X, Absolute Radio and XS Manchester and she was named Steve Lamacq's BBC 6 Music 'One to Watch' in January 2021. Catherine was awarded an Arts Council grant to make a further 3 singles in 2021 and is currently working on her debut EP 'Fly' with producer Seadna McPhail at Airtight Studios, Manchester.  The EP is due for release in Spring 2022 and will feature guest performances from drummer Andy Hargreaves (I Am Kloot) and bass player Nathan Sudders (Miles Kane, Guy Garvey, Nadine Shah). Test Card Girl's music ranges from lo-fi bedroom pop to simple indiefolk songs, influenced in equal parts by the standard-issue musical taste of a 90's Manchester teenager; an obsession with the MIDI sounds of childhood keyboards past and finger-picking folk songs of old. In January 2022 Catherine was announced as one of 10 Manchester International Festival MIF Sounds artists​ and will be performing live throughout 2022 (dates TBC).

I am composer, pianist, and a Korean drama fan! I create original compositions inspired by my favorite Korean dramas.

Artwork by Neal Sharp
Photography by me

Matt Mereport emerged from the Manchester ship canal to set up home on a small wooded northern hilltop. Armed with a guitar, voice and electronics he creates what he refers to as “music” though many disagree with this tag. Sometimes it’s heavily electronic, sometimes it’s heavily acoustic. Sometimes it’s heavily weighted. It tends to change from day to day. Much like his socks.

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