CATE KENNAN - Shadows LP Post-Hardcore

CATE KENNAN - Shadows LP Post-HardcoreLos Angeles musician Cate Kennans self produced second full length unfolds with the poetry and immateriality of its title: Shadows. 10 vignettes of keys, strings, reverb, and voice, the songs sway and lope between dream and lullaby, rose colored but remote. The album was inspired by the dislocation Kennan felt upon returning, after several years away, to the rustic neighborhood northwest of L. A. where shed grown up: Wandering through a place where my

he also plays tuba and invites Claude Jeanmaire to get involved on prepared piano

having already graduated from the University of Chicago

wraps a selection of his dear friend Johnny’s penultimate compositions in arresting tone poems

845 pipes making up the gigantic organ

You might think that would cause extra stress for the band

a pure mood

Repress of the out of print initial reformation album from 2014

While her boundless creativity and fierce technical ability on the instrument are a treasure to all open-minded steel players

and ear for poetic sound are matched only by the pathos of his stories

the Duchess of Canadian Flannel flew south in December 1996 to record an album of ballads about postpartum depression

with themes mainly about the inevitability of tragedy and suffering in life – both as individuals

updating both sounds for a seemingly hopeless post-9/11 world