Caroline Weeks - Folk Explosion

Caroline Weeks’ debut album, Songs For Edna, is to be made available on vinyl and for download in March 2009. This keenly anticipated collection will be released on the Los Angeles-based Manimal Vinyl, the same label that licensed the US vinyl release of Bat For Lashes’ Fur And Gold debut.

Having been a full time member of Natasha Khan’s Bat For Lashes for over three years, Caroline Weeks has now both cemented her position as Natasha’s right-hand gal and found the time to record her own stunning debut disc.

Caroline previously performed under the name Ginger Lee, but having discovered (via a somewhat shocking Google search) that a young American lady who appears to relish having her photo taken in the buff shared this particular moniker, Caroline has now reverted to using her family name.

Born and bread on the Sussex coast, Caroline comes from a long line of musicians: in the 1920s the fifteen-strong “Weeks brass band” was famed across East Sussex, while, more recently, her Grandfather can be seen playing the church organ in the movie of Stella Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm.

A classically trained flautist and effortlessly self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Caroline’s current weapon of choice is a three-quarter-sized classical Spanish guitar, which she uses to brew a heady mix of cantering finger picks and delicately decaying sound shapes, where the spaces are just as important as the notes. Add to this her own “secret” tuning (which has been known to flummox even the most competent of guitarists looking to have a quick strum in the Green Room) and you have a truly original sound.

Collected Sounds - Enjoy!

Caroline Weeks - Raven
Caroline Weeks - Renascence
Caroline Weeks - See Where Capella
Caroline Weeks - The Drowning Man
Caroline Weeks - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
Caroline Weeks - Wild Swans
Caroline Weeks - Elegy