KATCHIE AND LE MONDE CACHE

Vocalist/flutist Katchie Cartwright and her group Le Monde Caché are proud to announce the release of Tales & Tongues — a collection of songs spanning cultures and epochs, performed by a fiery jazz quintet and imbued with a vibrant improvisational aesthetic. The great Jimmy Heath has hailed Cartwright as “a soulful intellectual with a velvet sound and uncommon ability.” JazzTimes has described her as “one helluva singer.” Holding a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, she melds her insights as a scholar, educator and performer into an original, forward-thinking musical vision she terms the “global songbook.” Honoring the great songwriting talents of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Charles Trenet, Argentina’s Carlos Gardel and more, Cartwright sings in Yiddish (“Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn,” “Ikh Hob Dikh Tsufil Lib”), Ladino (“Alta Va La Luna”), Spanish (“El Día Que Me Quieras”), French (“Sous Le Ciel De Paris,” “Que Reste-t-il De Nos Amours”), Italian (“Estate”) and Portuguese (“Triste,” “Chega de Saudade”). read more...