Catherine Graindorge is a violinist, violist, composer and actress based in Brussels. Since 2012 and the release of The Secret of us all, her first solo album, she has multiplied collaborations with artists such as Iggy Pop, John Parish (PJ Harvey), Hugo Race(Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Pascal Humbert and Bertrand Cantat (Detroit), Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Mark Lanegan (Jeffrey Lee Pierce Project) but also composed for dance, theatre and cinema (with a Magritte nomination for her soundtrack of Le Chant des Hommes). In 2017 the album Long Distance Operators, composed and performed with Hugo Race, is released on Sub Rosa. In October 2021 is launched her second solo album Eldorado on Glitterbeat Records (Tak: Till), recorded in Bristol with the legendary John Parish, here producer but also musician. In September 2022, featuring Iggy Pop singing on 3 tracks, she releases The Dictator, a 4-track EP on Glitterbeat Records. In September 2023 she was awarded the Octave de la Musique in the "Solo Artist of the Year" category. On April 26th 2024 will be launched her 3rd album Songs for the Dead on Tak :Til (Glitterbeat Records) featuring Simon Huw Jones (And Also The Trees), Pascal Humbert (16 Horsepower, Wovenhand, Lilium) and Simon Ho. In a distant echo to the cinematographic flights of Max Richter or the flayed harmonies of Warren Ellis, somewhere between ambient, rock and neo-classical, the music on this new opus continues its singular, bewitching trajectory.