LONDON: The Water Rats

Tuesday 13th November, 2018

7:30pm

Event information

Kitty Macfarlane's highly anticipated debut album Namer Of Clouds was released September 2018 to national acclaim. Join Kitty with her band for an extra special album launch party on 13th November.

Kitty Macfarlane is a songwriter from Somerset, whose music is rich with visual imagery and written with an eco-eye. From the starling murmurations on the Somerset Levels to the lowly eel's epic transatlantic migration, and the small part we ourselves play in a much bigger picture, her songs are bound by the underlying theme of mankind's relationship with the wild. Produced by Sam Kelly and Jacob J Stoney, Namer Of Clouds gathers inspiration from the sky to the seabed. Carried by a voice 'as clear as a mountain stream' (FRUK), her lyrics touch on intervention and rewilding, climate change and migration, and woman’s historical relationship with textiles and the land.

"What sets her work apart is her affinity with the natural world and some startlingly poetic lyrics" - The Observer

"Her remarkably accomplished debut album, Namer Of Clouds, beguiles with its poetry and tenderness, and her eye for detail, vivid imagination and bright vocals make it a captivating listen" - The Guardian

"Stunningly beautiful - what a production, what a sound" - Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2

"What sets her work apart is her affinity with the natural world and some startlingly poetic lyrics" - The Observer

"Kitty expresses her intense empathy with the natural environment, which we need to treat with respect.... Namer Of Clouds is an impressively mature record" - fRoots Magazine

"An astonishingly accomplished debut album - full of old wisdom and bubbling over with new ideas. A singular songwriting talent... Macfarlane’s pure voice, controlled yet wild, is a revelation, and the production and arrangement is masterful" - Folk Radio

“ With her excellent vocals and fine instrumentation this is an arresting and absorbing debut” **** - Songlines

“ Macfarlane’s imagination runs wider than the parochial” **** - Financial Times

“This overflows with class and promise” - Mojo