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KTB – Indelible Ink

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Release date: May 2009

Quirky folk from the Birmingham-based songstress with her third and finest album yet!

At long last, Birmingham-based singer and songwriter KTB (aka 25-year old Katy Bennett) launches her third album, Indelible Ink. Recorded over the past three years in various front rooms and stairwells, Indelible Ink is a brave new step for the former BBC Young Folk Award Finalist KTB and collaborator Phill Ward into that mysterious land somewhere between Gillian Welch, Bjork and Dory Previn.

Indelible Ink displays the most sophisticated songwriting of KTB’s career to date coupled with subtle, delicate touches from multi-instrumentalist Phill Ward.

The album’s twelve and a half songs vary from simple arrangements for 2 guitars and voice to orchestral numbers awash with layers of strings, voices, guitars, harp, brass, wine glasses, human theremin and various unclassified sounds. There are songs of sorrow, Shakespeare, disasters, disturbed minds, unrequited love, friendship and hope.

Since releasing her second album, Bluebird, in 2005, Katy has performed live up and down the country, including support slots with Karine Polwart, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset, Kirsty McCgee, Erin Mckeown and Vashti Bunyan, while her festival appearances include Truck, Solfest, 2000 Trees, Wood and Edinburgh fringe to name but a few. Katy is also one quarter of fab, female, folk foursome Little Sister who release their debut album this summer.

For more details, visit
Www.ktb.org.uk

or contact mail@ktb.org.uk
Tel: 07734 950 333

Critical acclaim for KTB’s Bluebird

‘A sophisticated mix of folk, jazz, pop and rustica’ The Independent

‘Strikingly original’ UNCUT

‘A very promising talent’ Americana-uk.com

‘An honest and organic sound that provides respite from our synthetic
Pop-Idol World’ Rock Sound

‘KTB has honeyed rivers and mothering embraces for a voice. KTB has a mournful-joyful tunefulness rising so effortlessly that it seems more natural than breathing.’ Plan B Magazine