Catherine Feeny and Chris Johnedis
Chris Parreira Presents...
Catherine Feeny & Chris Johnedis
Humboldt Machine Works
(Enter through Robert Goodman Wines)
937 10th St.
Arcata, CA
$12
Saturday, September 20
Doors at 7:00, Concert at 8:00
Sometimes two artists meet at exactly the right time. And in collaborating, they crack open a deeper vein of gold. Acclaimed songwriter Catherine Feeny met jazz drummer Chris Johnedis after recording her rebellious fourth solo album, "America." She had just come back from the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, and he was returning from 2 years of working and studying in Thailand. Johnedis helped translate the varied rhythms of "America" -- which ran the gamut between vintage drum machine sounds and captured field recordings -- into a live show setting.
Two years later, working with producers Sebastian Rogers (Floetry) Sheldon Gomberg (Ben Harper, Ricki Lee Jones) in an intense four-day session in Silverlake, CA the two created a universe of sound that is spare, yet playful and propulsive for their eponymous collaborative album. Leveraging Feeny's quietly costly vocals and classic pop songwriting against Johnedis's exhilarating polyryhthms, the team masterfully maximized what a single ukulele, a solo voice, a looped guitar and a set of drums can be. Audiences across the US and Europe have been mesmerized by the spell Feeny and Johnedis cast on stage.
"Catherine Feeny’s songs are entrancing... You can hear a passion behind her experimental pop songs that carries with it both nostalgia and innovation..." / The Deli Magazine
"Feeny paints with the paintbrush of revolution, songs are uplifting and unifying; not despite of but because of the fragile country they sing about..." / Cincinnati Music Examiner
"She’s an unreal vocalist, and a damn smart songwriter." / Casey Jarman, Willamette Week
"If Catherine Feeny was an explorer, she would wade into crocodile-infested waters and emerge without a scratch... " / Dave Simpson, The Guardian
"Feeny’s songs are often those of an exile... her low key, quietly devastating delivery sounding somewhere between Joni Mitchell and Billie Holiday..." / Paul Rhodes, The York Press
"The former Pennsylvanian pens songs with subtle ambiguity... fooling the listener into a false sense of security before she drops her dark lyrics." / Music Weekly
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