All Lyrics & Vocals by Cathy Battistessa. Cathy has been fortunate to collaborate with many different musicians from across the Globe, including the Infamous Guitarist/ Composer/Producer "Paco Fernandez" /// ...............
Pianist - Nick Keeling ....................
Guitars / Bass - Israel Bernardes /// Percussion / drums - Tony Goncalves /// Bernie Weimer /// Guitars - Alex Kennart /// Rupert Mann - Drums /// Paul Ross - Piano / Keys
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Cathy Battistessa
"A unique artist with a powerful spirit and distinctive vocal style".....................................
If you own a lounge/Chill Out compilation or two the chances are Cathy Battistessa will feature in there somewhere!
Cathy has been hailed as “The voice of the Café Del Mar” after having written the Legendary Chill-Out Hit “More Than Ever People” and other Café del Mar classics “Oh Home” and “Riva”. Since then she has gone on to collaborate with Afterlife co-writing with Steve Miller, "Shine", "Go Easy", "Let it Go" and the title track of the last Afterlife Album “Speck Of Gold” all songs are featured on various compilations, Buddha lounge, Cafe Mambo etc. More collabs to check out - Rob da Bank (Radio One) / Lazyboy, track “Don’t fret George”, Paco Fernandez "Oh HOme", Kirk de Giorgio - ASOne "Shed Dem", Laid/ Zoo Brazil " Presence" , Stephane Pompougnac (Hotel Costes), Chris Coco (Radio One) and “Still”.
Cathy B also co-wrote the successful Top Ten Hit “A Little Bit Of Luck” with DJ Luck & MC Neat holding its No. 8 position in the Top Ten Uk Charts for several weeks!!
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Cathy has spent the last 2 years crafting her debut solo Album. Writing with inspirational musicians/producers & artists across the globe. This quest has taken her as far afield as Africa, S. America and Iceland where she spent time working with Bjorks' programmer / producer Valgier Siggurson - Check out "Lament" here or visit www.cathybattistessa.net
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2007 she spent over a year recording her 10,000 km journey across S.America, performing / writing /filming / photographing / sketching and painting her way en-route from Northern Brazil across the Andes into Northern Chile. Travelling down the coast of Chile, across the Mapuchji Indian territory of southern Chile, over the southern Andes into Argentina, passing through Paraguay and once more arriving in Southern Brazil. Now having experienced working with so many South American musicians CB is determined to infuse her solo album with this new found rhythmic freedom & inspiration.
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Another CB project to be aware of ~ Check out her collaboration with “Slow.Pulse”. She has written/co-written 6 songs for they’re Debut Album due out 2009! You can listen to the Slow.Pulse & Cathy Battistessa tracks “Elysian”, “Da Riva”, “Can’t Love”, “Complicated Art”, “Times They Are A’Changin”, and … “All or Nothing”.
in the play list here ~
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Feel it for yourself, she has a profoundly emotive and genuinely soulful lyrical & melodic flow – her creativity is all about a unique stream of consciousness and ultimately great songs being moulded into rhythms and grooves, to be appreciated by all those that hear a melody and want to ride it forever …..
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www.cathybattistessa.net
Cathy Battistessa is represented by Phil Knox-Roberts Redemption Records & Management ..........
www.myspace.com/redemptionuk .......
www.redemption-records.com .... + 44 07866 626946
hay!! Cathy!! amazing & so delicate song!!with Kee Deep!! , LIKE ALWAYS, spread love araound the word!! keep doing !!MADAME!! ALL MY ADMIRATION from Argentina.,(remeber San Martin de los Andes??) buy bye!!
Hi Cathy, how are you? I hope you are doing alright! Remember me? In 1996 we made a concert in Las Dalias, bohimian cabaret, and you were singing there with Carlos and Yuma, r.i.p. and I organized it.
As ever, I love your voice and your honesty, It's hard work, I know, but It's rewarding....O Ya. I hope to see ya somewhere in the future and Love and Music is always number 1. Good luck sis.
