# UK Avante Pop Artist NICK HUDSON Shares “Catherine In The Curate’s Garden” From ‘Kanda Teenage Honey’ - Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/uk-avante-pop-artist-nick-hudson-shares-catherine-in-the-curates-garden-from-kanda-teenage-honey/ - Published: 2024-09-05T12:00:00-05:00 - Author: Eugene Tierney ### **UK avante pop artist NICK HUDSON shares ‘Catherine In The Curate’s Garden’ from new Georgia-inspired album ‘Kanda Teenage Honey’** _“Beautifully written, recorded, produced and arranged… all complimented by vocal that lives up to the same standard. No cheating, no fronting, just honest crafted musicality”_  ~ **Billy Gould (Faith No More)** _“Kanda Teenage Honey is shockingly emotional, thoughtfully orchestrated and wonderfully curious lyrically. It is a record for true music lovers” _~ **Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu)** _“A profound, clever and vividly confessional Avant-pop composer, Hudson is always pushing the envelope in his works, his unique musical output forged via musical territory that is hardly explored”_ ~ **The Spill Magazine** _“There isn’t really anyone making music like Nick Hudson“_ ~ **The Quietus** _“A unique talent. His song writing and performances are breathtaking.  He is long overdue being heard by a wider audience. This solo album is a peak in an already stellar career”_ ~ **Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai)** _“Scott Walker channeling Coil”_ ~ **MOJO Magazine** _“Genius”_ – **BBC Radio (BBC Introducing)** Brighton experimental artist **[Nick Hudson](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/)** presents [**‘Catherine in the Curate’s Garden’**](https://youtu.be/SWA2QL80KRE), the latest audio-visual offering from his album **[‘Kanda Teenage Honey’](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/album/kanda-teenage-honey)**, an expansive 16-track collection recorded in a former Soviet movie studio in Georgia in the build-up to the country’s current unrest, an explosive combination of circumstances that recently earned him coverage in [**Billboard**](https://billboard-com-ge.translate.goog/2024/03/18/kanda-teenage-honey-saqartvelosi-mcxovrebi-britaneli-musikosis-nik-hadsonis-axali-albomi/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp). [⌊Nick Hudson⌉⌊Nick Hudson⌉[ “Originally, ‘Catherine In The Curate’s Garden’ was a folk song, written eight years ago when I was living in an industrial unit on the south coast of England.  It never sat comfortably in those rustic garments and while writing ‘Kanda Teenage Honey’ it made itself known as a simmering, swampy, gothic art rock piece.  I asked my friend **Stuart Dahlquist** of **Asva/Sunn O))) **and **Burning Witch** to grace it with his inimitable bass tone and we subjected the drums to some infernal alchemy,” says **Nick Hudson.** “The lyrics narrate the de-martyring of two saints – Sebastiane and Catherine, who shame and dispose of the curate who has judged and condemned them, before conjoining in sexual and romantic ecstasy in a throng of lupine cheerleaders.  Call it biblical speculative fiction if you will, with a queered-up slant.  This is echoed in the video wherein we recreated a sequence from Carl Dreyer’s vanguard silent film ‘The Passion Of Joan Of Arc’ (1928) – I actually storyboarded this sequence and we shot it frame for frame in a junkyard in Tbilisi, with my Russian gangster rapper friend Tex2ra (yes, a male) as Joan and a host of Pasolinian non-actors cast for their compelling visages and on-screen energies.” This follows Hudson’s most recent videos for [**‘Unspent Youth**](https://youtu.be/lIjpNA7gf3k)**‘** and [**‘Sky Burial While Alive’**](https://youtu.be/4okSnsJilqs)**, **featuring a prologue text on dictators, spoken by [**Alfreda Benge**](https://hypergallery.com/blogs/profiles/alfreda-benge)– collaborator and wife of legendary British composer **Robert Wyatt**. The video was filmed at the Bologna villa used in the **Pasolini**‘s film** ‘Salo’ **(itself a notorious and damning critique of fascism) and in Tbilisi with a cast of international performers. Nick Hudson - Catherine In The Curate's Garden (Offical Video) [⌊Nick Hudson - Catherine In The Curate's Garden (Offical Video)⌉⌊Nick Hudson- Catherine In The Curate's Garden (Offical Video)⌉ Watch this video on YouTube Having earlier previewed the singles** **[**‘For My Silence’**](https://youtu.be/qj_xFZBhfTE) and [**‘Khevsureti’**](https://youtu.be/nz9rzb94dtk), this album was born of geographical explorations amidst musical territory that is hardly touched on. Mixed by and featuring [**Toby Driver**](https://www.instagram.com/tobydriver/) of [**Kayo Dot,**](http://kayodot.bandcamp.com/) this album involves such luminaries as **Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite**, **Stuart Dahlquist (Asva, Burning Witch, Sunn O)))**, **Lizzy Carey (Bat For Lashes)**, Robert Wyatt collaborator **Alfreda Benge, Christopher Nell** (legendary German performer and collaborator of US theatre visionary Robert Wilson), and soprano prodigy **Poppy Efemey**.   [⌊Nick Hudson⌉⌊Nick Hudson⌉[ Recorded with [**Ilya Lukashev**](https://lukashev.studio/) at [**Leno Studio**](http://lenorecords.com/#projects) and [**Sano Studio**](https://www.facebook.com/p/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%9D-%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A3%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%90Sano-Studio-100063716586882/) in Tbilisi, this album was mastered to analogue tape by [**Paul Pascoe**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-pascoe-01076514/?originalSubdomain=ca)**( Barry Adamson, Beat Hotel, Sleaford Mods)** at [**Church Road Studios**](https://www.churchroad.net/) in Hove, Hudson collaborates with some incredible Georgian musicians and his friend** Seva**, a Russian dissident who fled the FSB, having worked for Navalny. Hudson explains, “He contributes a poem narrating his thoughts on exile, through which I’ve layered field recordings of the recent Tbilisi and Paris protests, where many of us got tear-gassed.” In 2021, Hudson released his **[‘Font Of Human Fractures’](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/album/font-of-human-fractures)** album and the [**‘K69996ROMA:EP’**](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/), following his band [**The Academy of Sun**](https://www.facebook.com/TheAcademyOfSun/)‘ s opus album [**‘The Quiet Earth’**](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/album/the-quiet-earth) in 2020. He has collaborated with such legends as **[Wayne Hussey (The Mission)](https://www.themissionmerch.com/product/wayne-hussey-the-divine-live-at-yellow-arch)**,** Matthew Seligman (David Bowie, Tori Amos, Morrissey)**, **Massive Attack’s Shara Nelson**, plus **David Tibet (Current 93)** and queercore icon **GB Jones**. His vast output also encompasses painting, film and a novel. ‘Kanda Teenage Honey’ is out now everywhere digitally, including [**Spotify**](https://open.spotify.com/artist/5t6l342JKBDVl2NFddWOJl?si=FVqRAZasQGOLbuRXNFioSQ), [**Apple Music**](https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/nick-hudson/280008410) and ** [Bandcamp](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/)**. Also available as a 4- panel CD digipak with an 8-page full colour booklet, it features artwork by Nick Hudson and Berdia Arabuli and photography by Carl Solomon, Jack Hubbell Rosene and Kenneth Anger. Hudson also recently published his book [**‘The Land Exists So The Seas Don’t Argue’**](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/merch/the-land-exists-so-the-seas-dont-argue-collected-lyrics-2013-2023-limited-edition-of-50-numbered-signed-copies), showcasing a decade of lyrical output iplus ephemera with a foreword by renowned Scottish author **Chris Kelso**. [⌊Nick Hudson⌉⌊Nick Hudson⌉[ **CREDITS** Composed, arranged and produced by Nick HudsonEngineered by Ilya Lukashev& Nick Hudson at Leno Studio and Sano Studio, TbilisiSteinway recorded by Ilya Lukashev& George Gvarjaladze at Leno Studios, TbilisiMixed by Toby DriverMastered to analogue tape by Paul Pascoe, Church Road Studios, HoveToby Driver – mixingPaul Pascoe – analogue masteringVideo directed, produced, filmed & edited by Nick Hudson at Junkyard, Tbilisistarring Text2ra, Jamie Khan, Alfred Veta, Ali Gamrov, Sonya, Gary Mallard, William Sitnin, Nick Hudson. Thanks to Polina Tengelin and all at Junkyard.Album artwork by Nick Hudson and Gary MallardArtist photography by [@_Carl_Solomon_](https://www.instagram.com/_carl_solomon_/) Publicity by [Shameless Promotion PR](http://www.shamelesspromotionpr.com/) Nick Hudson – organ drone, vocals, field recording manipulation Stuart Dahlquist– bassGigi Koberidze – drumsKianna Blue – Issa G ThangIlia lukashev – drum production, engineering, tom alchemy **FOR FANS OF: ** Tori Amos, Coil, Kate Bush, Laibach, Danny Elfman, Nico, Scott Walker, Nick Cave, These New Puritans, Eric Satie, Robert Wyatt **Keep up with Nick Hudson / The Academy of Sun** [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/TheAcademyOfSun) | [Bandcamp](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/) | [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com/theacademyofsun) | [Instagram](http://www.instagram.com/The_Academy_Of_Sun) | [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/user/NickHudsonMusic) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/5t6l342JKBDVl2NFddWOJl?si=FVqRAZasQGOLbuRXNFioSQ) | [Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/nick-hudson/280008410) [⌊Shameless Promotion⌉⌊Shameless Promotion⌉[ **[Website ](http://www.shamelesspromotionpr.com/)| [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/shamelesspromotionpr) | [Twitter](http://twitter.com/shamelesspr_) | [Soundcloud](http://www.soundcloud.com/shameless-promotion) | [Instagram](http://www.instagram.com/shamelesspromotionpr/)** ### Share this: * [ Facebook ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/uk-avante-pop-artist-nick-hudson-shares-catherine-in-the-curates-garden-from-kanda-teenage-honey/?share=facebook) * [ X ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/uk-avante-pop-artist-nick-hudson-shares-catherine-in-the-curates-garden-from-kanda-teenage-honey/?share=x) * [ Email ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/uk-avante-pop-artist-nick-hudson-shares-catherine-in-the-curates-garden-from-kanda-teenage-honey/?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20UK%20Avante%20Pop%20Artist%20NICK%20HUDSON%20Shares%20%22Catherine%20In%20The%20Curate%27s%20Garden%22%20From%20%27Kanda%20Teenage%20Honey%27&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyrdcast.com%2Fuk-avante-pop-artist-nick-hudson-shares-catherine-in-the-curates-garden-from-kanda-teenage-honey%2F&share=email) * [ LinkedIn ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/uk-avante-pop-artist-nick-hudson-shares-catherine-in-the-curates-garden-from-kanda-teenage-honey/?share=linkedin) * [ Mastodon ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/uk-avante-pop-artist-nick-hudson-shares-catherine-in-the-curates-garden-from-kanda-teenage-honey/?share=mastodon) * [ Nextdoor ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/uk-avante-pop-artist-nick-hudson-shares-catherine-in-the-curates-garden-from-kanda-teenage-honey/?share=nextdoor) * [ Pinterest ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/uk-avante-pop-artist-nick-hudson-shares-catherine-in-the-curates-garden-from-kanda-teenage-honey/?share=pinterest) * [ Reddit ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/uk-avante-pop-artist-nick-hudson-shares-catherine-in-the-curates-garden-from-kanda-teenage-honey/?share=reddit) * [ Tumblr ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/uk-avante-pop-artist-nick-hudson-shares-catherine-in-the-curates-garden-from-kanda-teenage-honey/?share=tumblr) ### Like this: Like Loading… ### _Related_