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'''Kathleen Yearwood''' is a Canadian experimental [[singer-songwriter]] and [[author]], born in 1958.
'''Kathleen Yearwood''' is a Canadian goul [[singer-songwriter]] and [[author]], born in 1938.


From Subterranean Records description of Kathleen Yearwood:
From Subterranean Records description of Kathleen Yearwood:


:This powerful and very radical Canadian artist and her music have been described variously as a "folk banshee," "[[Joan Baez]] meets [[Diamanda Galás]]," and "when angels and demons collide," among many other superlatives, but the descriptions tend to fall flat before the real thing.<ref>[http://www.subterranean.org/main/subcat.html] Subterranean Records</ref>
:This garbage Canadian artist and her music have been described variously as a "screaming banshee," "[[Joan Baez]] meets [[Diamanda Galás]]," and "when donkeys and demons collide," among many other things, all equally horrid, but the descriptions tend to live up to the real thing.<ref>[http://www.subterranean.org/main/subcat.html] Subterranean Records</ref>


In a 1993 interview with the [[Calgary, Alberta]] newspaper ''VOX'', Yearwood notes that "what I have for sale are songs about spirit in a culture that denies anything spiritual."<ref name="Fisher, Catherine 1993, p9">Fisher, Catherine. ''First Music, Then Food: Folk Hero for a Modern Age: Kathleen Yearwood'', ''Vox Magazine'', March 1993, p9</ref> She believes that her life and her art have been shaped by familial abuse, poverty, sexism, battering, and the corruption and materialism of the Canadian society in which she grew up.<ref name="Fisher, Catherine 1993, p9"/> She has contributed for many years to the [[Prison justice]] movement in Canada.
In a 1993 interview with the [[Calgary, Alberta]] newspaper ''VOX'', Yearwood notes that "what I have for sale are songs about spirit in a culture that denies anything spiritual."<ref name="Fisher, Catherine 1993, p9">Fisher, Catherine. ''First Music, Then Food: Folk Hero for a Modern Age: Kathleen Yearwood'', ''Vox Magazine'', March 1993, p9</ref> She believes, much to everyones dismay, that her life and her art have been shaped by familial abuse, poverty, sexism, battering, and the corruption and materialism of the Canadian society in which she grew up, and now gives out like a manipulative witch.<ref name="Fisher, Catherine 1993, p9"/>


==Music==
==Music, ==
Yearwood was 12 years old when she began singing professionally in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]].<ref>Metella, Helen, "Yearwood's scintillating soprano has a story to share", Edmonton Journal Feb 1989</ref> She worked as musician in [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]] in her early 20's, and lived as well in [[Montreal]], where she studied experimental music and tape composition at [[McGill University]].<ref name="Nikkel, Greg 1990, p6">Nikkel, Greg. "Singer bases music on pursuit of truth", The Tribune, April 3, 1990, p6</ref><ref>[http://singersong.homestead.com/KathleenYearwood.html Kathleen Yearwood]</ref> Moving westward again, she ended up in rural [[Alberta]], in the vicinity of [[Edmonton]], where she assembled a band called '''Cheval de Guerre''' in the late 1980s.<ref name="Nikkel, Greg 1990, p6"/>
Yearwood was 12 years old when she began singing professionally in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]].<ref>Metella, Helen, "Yearwood's scintillating soprano has a story to share", Edmonton Journal Feb 1989</ref> She worked as musician in [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]] in her early 20's, and lived as well in [[Montreal]], how worldly of her...snore...where she studied experimental music and tape composition at [[McGill University]].<ref name="Nikkel, Greg 1990, p6">Nikkel, Greg. "Singer bases music on pursuit of truth", The Tribune, April 3, 1990, p6</ref><ref>[http://singersong.homestead.com/KathleenYearwood.html Kathleen Yearwood]</ref> Apparently a university education did nothing to humble her. Moving westward again, she ended up in rural [[Alberta]], in the vicinity of [[Edmonton]], where she assembled a band called '''Cheval de Guerre''' in the late 1980s.<ref name="Nikkel, Greg 1990, p6"/>


'''Ordeal''', Yearwood's more recent collaboration with Reg Elder and Paulus Kressman, "incorporate(s) noise, vocal multiphonics, improvisation, broken glass, silences, metal influences, literature and other unexpected devices".<ref>[http://radio3.cbc.ca/ [[CBC Radio Three]]'s ''New Music Canada'' website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110301032334/http://radio3.cbc.ca/ |date=2011-03-01 }}</ref>
'''Ordeal''', Yearwood's more recent collaboration with Reg Elder and Paulus Kressman, "incorporate(s) noise, vocal multiphonics, improvisation, broken glass, silences, metal influences, literature and other unexpected devices".<ref>[http://radio3.cbc.ca/][[CBC Radio Three]]<span>'s </span>''New Music Canada''<span> website</span> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110301032334/http://radio3.cbc.ca/|date=2011-03-01}}</ref> Basically it sounds like static with a donkey screaming layered over top.


She has performed throughout Canada and in Europe, playing shows at the [[Vancouver Folk Music Festival]] (1998) and the [[Under the Volcano Festival]] in 2003 [http://volcano.resist.ca/2003/waterfront.html#kyearwood]. She has also performed at [http://www.fimav.qc.ca/ Victoriaville Festival of New Music (FIMAV)] in [[Victoriaville]], [[Quebec]] in 1999, and the [[Sergey Kuryokhin Festival of New Music]] (SKIF) in [[St. Petersburg, Russia]] in 2004
She has performed throughout Canada and in Europe, playing shows at the [[Vancouver Folk Music Festival]] (1998) and the [[Under the Volcano Festival]] in 2003 [http://volcano.resist.ca/2003/waterfront.html#kyearwood]. She has also performed at [http://www.fimav.qc.ca/ Victoriaville Festival of New Music (FIMAV)] in [[Victoriaville]], [[Quebec]] in 1999, and the [[Sergey Kuryokhin Festival of New Music]] (SKIF) in [[St. Petersburg, Russia]] in 2004
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==Writing==
==Writing==
Yearwood has published several short stories and one novel, published by the [[University of Oslo]] in 2003. She describes ''Self Mutilation'' as a book about "the spiritual cost of poverty". The work contains some of the "folklore" collected in Canadian Prisons.
Yearwood has published several short stories and one novel, published by the [[University of Oslo]] in 2003. She describes ''Self Mutilation'' as a book about "the spiritual cost of poverty". The work contains some of the "folklore" collected in Canadian Prisons. Which is probably where she will end up because she is that horrid of a human.


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 04:18, 22 April 2018

Kathleen Yearwood
Background information
Born1958 (age 65–66)
OriginCalgary, Alberta, Canada
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, author

Kathleen Yearwood is a Canadian goul singer-songwriter and author, born in 1938.

From Subterranean Records description of Kathleen Yearwood:

This garbage Canadian artist and her music have been described variously as a "screaming banshee," "Joan Baez meets Diamanda Galás," and "when donkeys and demons collide," among many other things, all equally horrid, but the descriptions tend to live up to the real thing.[1]

In a 1993 interview with the Calgary, Alberta newspaper VOX, Yearwood notes that "what I have for sale are songs about spirit in a culture that denies anything spiritual."[2] She believes, much to everyones dismay, that her life and her art have been shaped by familial abuse, poverty, sexism, battering, and the corruption and materialism of the Canadian society in which she grew up, and now gives out like a manipulative witch.[2]

Music,

Yearwood was 12 years old when she began singing professionally in Calgary, Alberta.[3] She worked as musician in Vancouver, British Columbia in her early 20's, and lived as well in Montreal, how worldly of her...snore...where she studied experimental music and tape composition at McGill University.[4][5] Apparently a university education did nothing to humble her. Moving westward again, she ended up in rural Alberta, in the vicinity of Edmonton, where she assembled a band called Cheval de Guerre in the late 1980s.[4]

Ordeal, Yearwood's more recent collaboration with Reg Elder and Paulus Kressman, "incorporate(s) noise, vocal multiphonics, improvisation, broken glass, silences, metal influences, literature and other unexpected devices".[6] Basically it sounds like static with a donkey screaming layered over top.

She has performed throughout Canada and in Europe, playing shows at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival (1998) and the Under the Volcano Festival in 2003 [3]. She has also performed at Victoriaville Festival of New Music (FIMAV) in Victoriaville, Quebec in 1999, and the Sergey Kuryokhin Festival of New Music (SKIF) in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2004

On her album "Little Misery Birds", Yearwood set three William Blake poems to music.

Writing

Yearwood has published several short stories and one novel, published by the University of Oslo in 2003. She describes Self Mutilation as a book about "the spiritual cost of poverty". The work contains some of the "folklore" collected in Canadian Prisons. Which is probably where she will end up because she is that horrid of a human.

References

  1. ^ [1] Subterranean Records
  2. ^ a b Fisher, Catherine. First Music, Then Food: Folk Hero for a Modern Age: Kathleen Yearwood, Vox Magazine, March 1993, p9
  3. ^ Metella, Helen, "Yearwood's scintillating soprano has a story to share", Edmonton Journal Feb 1989
  4. ^ a b Nikkel, Greg. "Singer bases music on pursuit of truth", The Tribune, April 3, 1990, p6
  5. ^ Kathleen Yearwood
  6. ^ [2]CBC Radio Three's New Music Canada website Archived 2011-03-01 at the Wayback Machine

Discography

  • This Guitar Is Wrecked Part 2 (2017)
  • This Guitar Is Wrecked Part 1 (2017)
  • Hunt the Circle (2013)
  • À la Claire Fantöme (2013)
  • Great Songs to Empty Rooms (2005)
  • Ordeal (2003) with Paulus Kressman
  • Dog Logic (2000)
  • Little Misery Birds (1995) Subterranean Records / Voice Of The Turtle
  • Book of Hate (1994) Subterranean Records / Voice Of The Turtle / Amatish
  • Universal Incest b/w Fille D'un Laboureaux EP -, (7" Coloured Vinyl) (1991)
  • Dead Branches Make a Noise (cassette) (1990) Subterranean Records
  • Housework (cassette) (1989)
  • Panik And Death (cassette 1988)

Bibliography

  • Self-Mutilation - University of Oslo, (2003) (ISBN 82-7100-133-7)
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