Caroline Lavelle
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Caroline & cello
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Background information | ||
Born | She doesn't say | |
Genre(s) | Folk | |
Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter | |
Instrument(s) | Cello, Singing | |
Website | Official site |
Caroline Lavelle is a British singer-songwriter and cellist who has created three solo albums and contributed vocals, music, and production help to many other artists and bands.
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[edit] Career
Lavelle studied at the Royal College of Music in London. Throughout the early to mid-eighties she busked in the city, often outside Kensington Tube Station and Covent Garden, playing baroque music with Anne Stephenson and Virginia Astley (or Virginia Hewes; sources are confused) in a group called Humouresque.
She was spotted by Frankie Gavin, a member of Ireland's De Dannan band, who asked her to join. She was part of the band up to the early nineties, alongside Mary Black and Dolores Keane.
In 1992, she contributed vocals and cello to the track "Home of the Whale" on the Massive Attack EP Hymn of the Big Wheel. Producer William Orbit liked it, contacted her, and eventually produced, and mixed, her debut solo album, Spirit, in 1995.
A December 1999 article in the UK's Sunday Times reported that it was this album which drew Madonna's attention and initiated the successful collaboration of William Orbit and Madonna.
She produced two further albums, Brilliant Midnight (2001), which, a year later, had three further tracks added in a reissue, and A Distant Bell in (2004).
Her "Home Of The Whale" track (with Massive Attack) was featured in the 2000 Ewan McGregor / Ashley Judd film, Eye Of The Beholder, and she also contributed her song Anxiety to the soundtrack of the 2001 John Dahl movie Roadkill (Joyride in the US).
She currently lives and works in the south of England and is working on her fourth album.
[edit] Collaborations
Artist | Album | Year | Contribution | Song |
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Afro Celt Sound System | Sound Magic Volume 1 | 1995 | cello, vocals & giggling | Jam Nation's "She Moved Through the Fair" |
BT | Emotional Technology | 2003 | cello & vocals | "The Great Escape" |
Chicane | Far from the Maddening Crowds | 1997 | vocals & co-writing | "Lost You Somewhere" |
De Dannan | Ballroom | 1993 | cello, vocals, arrangements | ALL |
Electric Strings quartet with The Pogues |
Pogue Mahone | 1996 | cello | "Anniversary" "Love You 'Til The End" "Pont Mirabeau" |
Hector Zazou | Lights in the Dark Strong Currents L'Absence |
1998 2003 2004 |
cello vocals & lyrics vocals & lyrics |
ALL "The Freeze" "Lies Will Flow" |
Loreena McKennitt | A Winter Garden Book of Secrets Live Paris & Toronto An Ancient Muse |
1996 1997 2001 2006 |
cello cello, viola da gamba cello cello |
ALL ALL ALL ALL, except Tracks 1, 4 |
Massive Attack | Hymn of the Big Wheel EP | 1992 | vocals & cello | "Home of the Whale" |
Muse | Origin of Symmetry | 2001 | cello | ALL |
Nigel Kennedy | Kafka | 1996 | vocals & co-writing | "Breathing Stone" |
Peter Gabriel | Us | 1992 | cello | ALL |
Radiohead | The Bends | 1996 | cello | ALL |
Sleepthief | The Dawnseeker | 2006 | vocals & writing | "Nightjar" |
The Chieftains | Further Down the Old Plank Road | 2003 | cello | ALL |
Vangelis | Voices | 1995 | vocals & lyrics | "Come to Me" |
She has also worked with Laurie Anderson, The Waterboys, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Graham Parker, The Cranberries, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Art of Trance has remixed some of her songs.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Spirit (1995)
- Turning Ground
- Moorlough Shore
- Dream Of Picasso
- Forget The Few
- Lagan Love
- A Case Of You
- Waiting For Rain
- Desire
- The Island
- Sleep Now
- Sheherezade
- Brilliant Midnight (2001)
- Farther Than The Sun
- Anxiety
- Anima Rising
- She Said
- All I Have
- The Fall
- Siamant'o
- Karma
- Mangoes
- Le Pourquoi
- Firefly Night
- Universal
- Twisted Ends
- Brilliant Midnight 2.0 (2002)
(As above, but with 3 extra tracks):
- Lost Voices
- Home of the Whale
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
- A Distant Bell (2004)
- Gently Johnny
- So Uncool
- Innocence Sleeping
- Banks of the Nile
- Simple Lyric
- No More Words
- Too Late
- The Trees They Do Grow High
- Greenwood Laddie
- Timeless
- Handful of Ashes
- Farewell to Music (w. Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains)
- Gently Johnny (Extended Version)
[edit] Singles
Moorlough Shore
N-Gram Recordings (1995)
- LP mix - 4.20
- Eye of the storm mix - 5.39
- Thermionic resonance mix, 90 BMP, vocal - 5.30
- Thermionic resonance mix, 97 BMP, dub - 5.22
- Thermionic resonance mix, 90 BMP, dub - 5.47
- Thermionic resonance mix, 107 BMP, dub - 5.45
A Case Of You
N-Gram Recordings (1995)
- A case of you (single mix) - 4.30
- Dream of picasso (monka monka mix) - 6.53
- A case of you (psovi psovi mix) - 4.31