Kathie Touin

Kathie Touin

Dark Moons & Nightingales - mystical, poetic, shadowy, luminous

Dark Moons & Nightingales CD cover

Dark Moons & Nightingales - Kathie's fifth and latest CD - features 16 original songs about letting go, finding love, the wonder of the wild and the puzzle of places - plus an intriguing instrumental.

Kathie has gathered inspiration for her songs from the Pacific waves of the California coast to the remote stone circles of Scotland's Orkney Islands and back home in London.

Peter Antony of the legendary Radio Caroline says: "Dark Moons & Nightingales... Wow... I love it... Simply fabulous."

R2 Rock'n'Reel magazine - which features a track on its January/February 2010 covermount CD - says: "Passionate, poetic songs underpinned by exquisite piano and rich, full arrangements. The magical Season of the Raven shimmers like heat-haze on granite and the whole album has an elemental quality, romantic in all its ragged beauty."

R2 magazine cover

Track listing

The new album follows in the footsteps of Butterfly Bones, Kathie's first collection of original lyrics and music.

Dark Moons & Nightingales features Kathie on vocals, piano, keyboards, acoustic guitar, bass, whistles and percussion.

And she welcomes guest guitarist Arron Storey, from the band Storey, who lends his tasteful playing to a number of tracks.

The instruments create a bedrock behind Kathie's distinctive voice and shimmering harmonies...

Tracks from Dark Moons & Nightingales are airing on many radio stations, including:

BBC Radio Scotland - on the respected Iain Anderson programme, guest host Ricky Ross played The Breaking of the Day;

Radio Caroline, Peter Antony played the tracks Back to California and Season of the Raven;

Radio 1 in the Netherlands, Paul van Gelder played Back to California;

Radio Seagull, relayed on London's Spectrum Radio, Martin Smith also picked out Back to California;

Biggles FM, in Bedfordshire, England, as part of an interview with Kathie, featured Back to California, Blades Beyond the Boundaries, Earthquake Weather and The Breaking of the Day;

Moorlands Radio, in Staffordshire, England, Simon Jones on his Moorlands Roots show played The World and You (Green Man);

ThatChannel.com, Toronto internet tv station, where Kathie was also interviewed, featured six tracks;

Aligre FM 93.1, in Paris, the Planet Claire programme played It May Rain;

EKR (European Klassik Rock), where the track Home was playlisted and was joint winner in the weekly listeners' poll;

The BIRN (Berklee Internet Radio Network) featured Dark Moons & Nightingales on rotation;

and Blast 1386, Mark Watkins played Earthquake Weather.

Music-lovers are enjoying Dark Moons & Nightingales as well -

One fan said: "It's been in my CD player in the car the whole week. It's a masterpiece! Haven't heard an album of such great quality in many years. Great compositions, magical piano playing, wonderful voice and harmonies..."

And another wrote to Kathie: "Season of the Raven – just wonderful and so cinematographic, every note immediately translates into breathtaking images."

Lyrics

Lyrics to the Dark Moons & Nightingales album are on the Lyrics page.

Buy the CD

You can buy Dark Moons & Nightingales from this and other websites: details on the Buy CDs and Buy Downloads pages.

 

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