#SessionLive Cabane and Catherine Graindorge #Belgium

It is in the Kingdom of Belgium that the #LiveSession takes place with 2 UFOs, Thomas Jean Henri known as Cabane and the violinist Catherine Graindorge.

Our 1^er guest is the Belgian artist Cabane for the release of the album Burnt.

Hut. © Thomas Jean Henri

Hut is the project of the Belgian musician and photographer Thomas Jean Henri. After a first album Great is the House, Thomas Jean Henri returns today with the second part of a work that he constructs as a triptych. Cabane’s second album brings together the voices of the English Kate Stables (This Is The Kit) and Sam Genders (Tung). A casting that he had dreamed of for a long time and which is dedicated to songs on the borders of folk and orchestral pop. Far from the moods of the world, Brulee will be a shelter for lovers of Nick Drake and Vashti Bunyan or for all those touched by the delicacy of Mark Hollis, Sufjan Stevens or Robert Wyatt.

It was in 2015 that Thomas Jean Henri laid the foundations of Cabane, a transdisciplinary project where he combines music, photography and video.

The single Today was accompanied by an exhibition housing and amplifying the clip for this first extract from the album. The exhibition was hosted by the gallery dedicated to photography, L’Enfant Sauvage, in Brussels. Thomas presented the 365 photos which, edited end to end, day after day, constitute the clip of Today. “ From Sunday January 9, 2022 to Monday January 9, 2023, I carried out a photographic ritual by going every day to Place Poelaert in Brussels, 3.8 km from my home, to photograph the sky there with my average film camera format. We all live the same days… But do we keep the same memories? “. Thomas offered his visitors the chance to leave with a photo, in exchange for a souvenir written in their own hand. To keep us waiting, Thomas has distilled for us throughout the fall of 2023 a series of unreleased tracks from the recording sessions for his first album (The unreleased series Pt.1).

Cabane and Kate Stables at RFI. © Laurence Aloir/RFI

Titles performed at the big studio

-Today Live RFI

-All we could dofrom the album

-Dead Song Live RFI.

Line Up: Thomas Jean Henriguitar, Kate Stablessinging.

Sound: Mathias Taylor and Benoît Letirant.

► Album Burnt (Cabin Rd 2024)

Youtube – Instagram.

Then we welcome the violinist Catherine Graindorge for the release of the album Songs for the Dead.

After his exciting 2022 duo EP with Iggy Pop The Dictatorthe Belgian composer and musician Catherine Graindorge returns with a luminous ensemble album where she collaborates with Simon Huw Jones (And Also theTrees). Instrumental and vocal songs about life, love and death. Inspired by mythologies and elegies from the Greeks to the Beats. Stories and myths. They spread like rivers in our lives, our cultures. Some are ancient, others more recent, but all help to shape us, guide us and console us on the paths of life, love and death. They have a quiet power, and that’s what Catherine Graindorge explores in her new album Songs for the Dead. A new album in homage to the poem ‘A Dream Record’ by Allen Ginsberg ” The poem touched me, it made me think about art, life and reality, and so I decided to build the album around it “.

In this work, Allen Ginsberg, dreamy, visits Joan, the deceased wife of the writer William Burroughs, who killed her when she allegedly tried to imitate William Tell and shoot a glass over her head. The couple laugh and talk about mutual friends as if she were still alive. But the reality of the grave returns and the dream fades.“I knew nothing about Joan Vollmer, but the poem says everything about our lives. Something can happen and there is no coming back, except in our dreams, when the dead come to visit us. As in the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. In Orpheus’ eyes, Eurydice seems alive for a moment, but one look is enough for her to disappear into the world of the dead. He wants to bring her back to life through the love he has for her “.