Iggy Pop shares EP with Belgian composer Catherine Graindorge

Iggy Pop has collaborated with Belgian composer and multi-instrumentalist Catherine Graindorge on a brand new EP – take heed to ‘The Dictator’ under.

The four-track assortment was launched on Friday (September 9) by way of the Glitterbeat label, and, as Graindorge defined, got here to fruition after she despatched off a speculative e-mail to the rock legend.

“He performed two tracks of mine on his BBC 6 Music present final November,” the composer started in a press release.

“So I despatched an e-mail addressed to Iggy to the producer of the present, saying that I used to be very honoured and that I’d be delighted to work on a monitor with him. It was fully spontaneous; I by no means thought something would actually occur.”

When he replied saying sure to a collaboration, “Iggy stated to ship him a monitor,” Graindorge added. “I started to improvise, and got here up with three items at dwelling. We communicated and started to trade concepts.”

She stated: “Over Christmas I recorded one other monitor that was extra rock. That grabbed him. Then he wrote the lyrics for ‘The Dictator’ two months earlier than Russia invaded Ukraine.”

Take heed to ‘The Dictator’ in full under alongside the video for its title monitor.

Of his love of Graindorge’s music, Iggy stated: “There’s a gothic masonry at work right here, with a really outdated power abetted by very crafty buildings.

“My contribution is to report, by means of phrases, the present risk, and the eager for happiness and peace.”

He added that the Belgian’s music represents “chalices, bodices, and outdated stones. It’s European romance and it creeps up on me like a fog; like winter in Venice, like a midnight wind”, including that he sees her as an artist “as one along with her continent and its canon”.

Earlier this summer time Iggy Pop collaborated with Danny Elfman on new track ‘Kick Me’.

‘Kick Me’ is a contemporary remix of the track that was initially heard on Elfman’s 2021 solo album ‘Massive Mess’, which marked his first solo LP in 37 years.