French For Cartridge

Getting there

Hello!

A small update seems to be in order.

After a short break from all things French For Cartridge to take care of a few very important and necessary things, we are back at it and about to finish our new recording! It’s been wonderful to come back to the sessions we did with CHROMA Ensemble last September and add vocals to them - so much good stuff in these 6 songs that we hope you will enjoy to hear.

5 songs are now finished and have been sent to S. Husky Höskulds in LA for him to add his bit of magic to them and mix into place - what we’ve heard so far is in equal measures fantastic and slightly crazy. In other words, exactly what we ordered. The remaining sixth song of the cycle is the one where pledgers had the opportunity to influence the theme and some of the lyrics. Some great ideas came from this and we’re about to put the finishing touches to it this month. All in all, it looks like we’ll have the finished thing in our hand (or on our desktop as it is these days) sometime in April or May. 

The September release date still holds, at least for the physical release and various extras, but who knows, maybe we’ll let those who have pre-ordered the album hear some of it already before then - so now is a great time to do so! The CD copies and other physical extras are all gone, but you can still pre-order the digital release and get access to all the updates and behind the scenes things, old and new.

Now back to recording these vocals - have a great spring!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!!

We had the pleasure of recording a session for The Dexter Bentley Hello Goodbye Show on Resonance FM last year and now a particularly noisy version of “A Hundred And One” is on this Best of 2015-show!

A BIIIG THANK YOU

We reached the target for our Pledge campaign in the nick of time! Thank you everyone who has pledged, we very much appreciate it!

We’re excited to now move on to the next stage of making the album and will keep you posted on how we are progressing!

You will still be able to pre-order the digital album until the release date in autumn and also get access to the updates on PledgeMusic, but all the other exclusives and extras have now expired.

Thank you again for your support!

Catherine, Henri, Aki, Anssi and CHROMA

WHAAAT???

LESS THAN A WEEK LEFT!?

That’s right, folks, it’s only a few days left now until the end of our Pledge Campaign and your chance to pre-order our new album with the excellent CHROMA Ensemble!

This is the only way to get your hands on a physical copy of the album, but there are also a lot of other extras and goodies to be had. £8 buys you a digital copy and access to updates from its making, whereas £5000 buys you a song based on your chosen topic - and lots of other nice things in-between, of course, so do have a look around.

We think we have created something quite special together with CHROMA, moving into a slightly more orchestral direction, and we would love to make sure you all get to hear it. As things go, recording an album and everything involved around it, comes at a price and we’d really appreciate it if you gave us a helping hand by pre-ordering the album this time.

Pledge away

Our Pledge Music-campaign is well under way - go on and have a look at our project video and explore all the goodies that can be yours!

There’s plenty on offer, from exclusive demos to cooking classes and customised songs. And a pretty darn good album, of course. You’ll also receive updates on how the recording is coming along. 

We really do appreciate your help!

If you can’t wait for new French For Cartridge related music, there are a couple of other things going on too. Catherine’s been gigging with Quinta (Philip Selway, Collectress, Paper Cinema) and Henri has produced the new album by Matt McKee, which has been picked up by both Radio 1 and Radio X. Both artists are well worth exploring!

New Album/Pledge

We’re back in the studio with contemporary music ensemble CHROMA to record our most adventurous album yet!

Pre-order this orchestrated song cycle full of wondrous sounds and surprises now and nose around our campaign on PledgeMusic for lots of fun extras and other ways to support its making!

This album got its start with the last song we recorded for our previous album, its title track “We Humans”. It was recorded with a string orchestra and put us onto a direction that we want to explore a bit more in depth now. Read more about it on PledgeMusic and have a look at the video for “We Humans” below to give you an idea of where we’re heading!

We need your help!

Studio

Finally!

An extended version of French For Cartridge is heading into the studio next month - very excited to be working with the excellent CHROMA​ ensemble on this one!

Pop Composition

Happy New Year!

We had so much fun playing the new songs at The Garage before Christmas that we will take another break from planning the new album next month when we play The Windmill in Brixton, London on February 12th.

It’s a night called Pop Composition that looks at what’s happening at the fringes of pop music and it seems like a lot of fun. We’re promised lots of bands/experiments and are playing a short 10-15 minute burst of old hits and new tunes.

Don’t miss!

The Garage

London

We spoke too soon!

The gig in Brighton at David Gedge’s At The Edge Of The Sea last month was so much fun that we’ll be out for one more gig this year. On Saturday November 29th you can catch us at Upstairs at The Garage in London. This will be our first gig since starting work on our next album, so expect a few familiar tunes as well as a chance to hear some bright and shiny new ones.

We have a limited amount of cheap tickets for sale at face value in our shop.

Hope you can make it - it will be fun!