Eldorado

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  Pieter

  More beautiful exciting sounds from the remarkable Glitterbeat / Tak:til label. A great haunting album from this Belgian violinist, altviolist, composer and actress.

  "Eldorado. People believed it was the city of gold. A fable, a legend that pushed the conquistadors further and further across a continent in search of riches. A myth. A grail. Eldorado was all of those things and more. Over the centuries it’s become a word weighted down by so many meanings, layer upon layer of possibility and expectation. But it can also be a place to find hope and solace and discover dreams. That’s the music of this Eldorado, the second solo album from Catherine Graindorge.

  Like a series of secret paths, the music of Eldorado takes curious twists and turns, ranging from stillness to frustration. Things aren’t quite as they seem; even the violin is disguised, shapeshifted by electronics, so the only certainty and continuity are the emotions Graindorge expresses.

  It’s intensely personal, a record brimming with tales and reminiscences, like “Rosalie,” a track she composed after reading of the death of a Rwandan woman in Belgium. Rosalie had come to Belgium with her husband to escape the genocide in her homeland in 1994, and Graindorge’s lawyer father had befriended her.

  “They built their life here and had two children. Most of Rosalie’s family had been murdered, and in her home village the remains of her family's bodies were finally found in 2019. She left with her daughter and husband to offer them a burial and a ceremony. Three days after her return to Belgium, her heart stopped. She was 51 years old.” (from the Bandcamp release page)