Catherine Jauniaux

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Catherine Jauniaux (* 1955 in Brussels ) is a Belgian singer. She was initially active in the field of art rock and then turned to new improvisation music.

Live and act

Jauniaux began acting as an actress at the age of 16. Since 1977 she sang with Aksak Maboul and was also involved in their albums Onze Danses Pour Combattre la Migraine and Un Peu de l'Âme des Bandits . In 1982 she joined the British band The Work around Bill Gilonis and Tim Hodgkinson to record the album Slow Crimes . The following year she played her debut album Fluvial with Hodgkinson , in which Lindsay Cooper and Georgie Born were also involved.

In 1991 she sang in Heiner Goebbels Roman Dogs at the Frankfurt Theater am Turm (which was also broadcast as a radio play in 1994). In the early 1990s she was part of the downtown New York City scene, where she worked with musicians such as Fred Frith , Tom Cora , Marc Ribot , Zeena Parkins and Butch Morris . With Ikue Mori she founded the duo Vibraslaps , which released an album in 1992. In 1995 she moved to the south of France with Tom Cora, whom she married, to work with Louis Sclavis , The Ex , Yoshihide Otomo , David Moss and Christian Marclay .

With the project The Hat Shoes , which she formed with Gilonis, she presented two albums. In recent years she has also worked with eRikm , but has also improvised with cellists Hiromichi Sakamoto, Sophie Agnel , Barre Phillips , Olivier Benoît and Xavier Charles .

Discographic notes

  • Fluvial (Woof Records, 1983)
  • Vibraslaps (RecRec Music, 1992)
  • Catherine Jauniaux - Hiromichi Sakamoto (2004)
  • Catherine Jauniaux / Barre Phillips / Ned Rothenberg While You Were Out (2009)
  • Barre Phillips / Catherine Jauniaux / Malcolm Goldstein Birds Abide (Victo 2010)
  • Catherine Jauniaux / eRikm Mal Des Ardents / Pantoneon (2013, CD, Mikroton Recordings)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Wangermée Dictionnaire de la chanson de Wallonie et à Bruxelles , Editions Mardaga, 1995, p 199
  2. ↑ Catherine Jauniaux at Allmusic (English)
  3. ↑ Biography Catherine Jauniaux (Belgium) . In: Institute for Living Voice (archived) . Archived from the original on February 18, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ Chiens Romains (HörDat)
  5. ↑ Brief bio Catherine Jauniaux ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cityvox @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.concerts.fr
personal data
SURNAME Jauniaux, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian singer (art rock, improvisational music)
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels