EUROPEAN TOUR MARCH-APRIL FLIP GRATER 2011

Flip has delivered an album with a rare sensitivity .There are echoes in the delivery of the finest French singers a la Françoise Hardy and Carla Bruni- except Flip is singing in English. A beautiful rare gem. Roger Marbeck A beautifully crafted album by a songwriter who has honed her craft, presenting us with a album of substance, raw fragility and strength. This is her best work yet. – Jan Hellriegel “When you listen to Flip Grater you can’t help but fall in love with her a little bit. Her latest album is languid, smooth and delicious.” – Samantha Hayes, 3news

The best art comes from suffering, so returning from Sweden in her twenties with a broken heart, music was her antidote. With over seven years of creating a sound Flip Grater is renowned for, the release of an EP, three critically acclaimed albums (2006's Cage For A Song, 2008's Be All And End All and 2010’s While I’m Awake I’m At War, a published book and a tour history that takes her meandering through 11 or so countries, Flip is seasoned.

In 2006 her track Long Awaited Sigh turned heads across the folk and alt-country scene, with a track from it selected by producers of the hit US TV show Brothers and Sisters. This was followed by two trips to SXSW festival in Austin, TX with a showcase line-up including Luke Zimmerman and Kris Kristoffeson. Flip’s latest release While I’m Awake I’m At War has had NZ media calling her “the brunette¨ Stevie Nicks due to songs such as the single 'Careful', a meandering alt country ditty with a Fleetwood Mac feel. In 2010, the Christchurch-born musician is releasing her third album, which features some friends you may know. Goldenhorse, Goodshirt and LA Mitchell to mention a few. September and October of 2010 saw Flip and her band (featuring Geoff Maddock, Dianne Swann, Chris O’Connor and Andrew Keoghan) on a sold-out 9-date tour of New Zealand followed by an 13- date solo tour of France, Italy and UK including 2 showcases at the MAMA industry Festival in Paris.

In 2007 Flip released The Cookbook Tour – a performance/travel journal and recipe book that sparkled with humour, tales of the road and wondrous recipes she had acquired on her journeys. The follow-up book based on touring through 7 countries in Europe will be published by Bateman Publishing in May 2011.

Management: Juliette Bouquerel [email protected] - T +33 1 42 45 37 48 Booking France : Clémence Bizenwww.myspace.com/flipgrater Zamora Prod [email protected] - - facebook.com/flipgratermusicBooking Germany : Heiko Wessels : Mightytunes - playlive: [email protected] ODT: 5 stars (out of 5): ¨Tenderness, complexity, honesty ... New Zealand indie-folk singer-songwriter Flip Grater gets it all right on her third studio album. Produced with a sympathetic ear by fellow songwriter Tim Guy and employing the tasteful services of guitarist Geoff Maddock (Goldenhorse, Anika Moa), keyboardist LA Mitchell, and others, While I'm Awake I'm At War breaks no new ground, instead relying on a combination of compositional ability and refined performances to deliver its killer blows, be it the French-influenced lilt of Careful and Golden Trinket or the film noir strains of I Am Gone. For those who like: Suzanne Vega¨ Shane Gilchrist

Groove Guide ¨The bleak title of New Zealand songwriter Flip Grater’s new album hints at strife within. While the

PRESS REVIEWS overriding tone of the music is quiet and understated, painted with the artful flourishes of an experienced ensemble of well known musos, the lyrics held in this sugar coating are thoughtful, often barbed or touched with tragedy. Not all is gloomy; the chirpy ‘Careful’ briefly throws away the darker mood in favour of a Stevie Nicks-style vocal brushed with mandolin. The quaint ‘Golden Trinket’ channels latter-day Bic Runga, before the down-tempo mood is restored in the beautiful ‘I Am Gone’ – where Cat Power melancholy interlaces sensuously with Geoff Madoock’s slide guitar. Comparisons and genres- yes this is a little alt country and a bit folk – don’t do justice to Grater’s album which stands on it’s own merits. Reflective listening – recommended. – Steve Elliot

New Idea : This is the third studio album from one of New Zealand’s lesser-known musical talents, Flip Grater. Filled with beautiful indie hits and soft ballads, it’s an album that’s as catchy as it is delightful. A true sign of New Zealand’s burgeoning melodic prowess.

Rip It Up : As Flip Grater’s third long-player is pushed into the CD player, suddenly – amongst the hustle and bustle of the city – there is a roaring calm. Flip has a lovely, smooth voice that is delivered delicately, but doesn’t sound fragile – although some of the subject matter can be. She tells her story well, with well phrased, thought provoking lyrics, and she sings particularly deeply, at a register that sounds natural for her voice and gives a pleasantly relaxed, warm tone. The production is slick and the arrangements are extremely well constructed, with beautiful layers of strings and choirs atop tenderly plucked guitars. This album is spacious. While being acoustic-folk, it does hint at a few country rhythms in Golden Trinket and Be Kind, and there is also a pop element with the track Careful, which is one of only a few tracks to have drums, making it seem more upbeat than the acoustic tunes. Flip is a talented songwriter who is definitely worth checking out. – Fleur Jack

The Dominion Post : You would assume from the cover shot that Flip Grater is going for a Feist- meets-Cat Power look. Well, the music is certainly hushed and ever so slightly folk- derived, but I would not be calling it Cat Power-esque. It is rather lovely, though. It took me a few listens for it to sink in properly. The first few songs sound a little too similar back-to-back. In fact, the first half-dozen songs push the delicate- girl-with-guitar finger-picking angle again and again. Then it opens up - country groove and a lilting country-ballad feeling. It is so easy to be compared to Anika Moa and Bic Runga here. I don't envy Kiwi female singer-songwriters. It's as if we gave up trying to classify and categorise them once Moa and Runga made more than one album. Three out of five star. – Simon Sweetman.

Next Magazine – September 2010 : This Kiwi singer-songwriter caused a certain stir a few years ago with her cookbook tour. This time around her music should be enough to grab your attention. Flip and producer Tim Guy have created a beautifully crafted album with lush strings underscoring Flip’s lovely voice. With Geoff Maddock of Goldenhorse helping out, this could be among the year’s top local releases.

www.myspace.com/flipgrater - facebook.com/flipgratermusic -playlive Elsewhere New Zealand singer-songwriter Flip Grater has a rare distinction at Elsewhere: she's the only artist so far who has previously had music posted (here) as well as recipe (here) which she picked up on the road for her cookbook.This beautifully arranged album, produced by Tim Guy, delivers through understatement as Grater's vocals are soft, almost hinting at the style of introspective French pop singers, and gorgeously melodic in a deliberately narrow and intimate range. There are pop elements (the gently chiming Careful with its chorus which PRESS REVIEWS seduces rather than hooks), hints of alt.country (Be Kind with a veritable Kiwi folk-rock supergroup) and the Pacific (Geoff Maddock's slide guitar in the delightful I Am Alone), and soft Donovan/Buffy Sainte-Marie-like Sixties folk. Grater delivers a poetic lyric too -- but, and here is the rub, in one song after another every song is from the first person perspective: "I" -- and then the inevitable "you" -- populate all these lyrics and the self-centredness becomes rather cloying over 11 songs. Grater posits herself as a fragile creature ("Be careful how you lay your hands on me, I may not be as tough as you think"), one who has lost the passion (I am Gone) or is living in the sad movie of life (Bullet That I Ride) . It is in the nature of Sensitive Singer-Songwriters (a genre unto itself) that the all-encompassing "I" should be seeing the world, but Grater never steps beyond that position to invite the listener in to a wider world than her own. That said, the gentle and well-crafted songs, plus those discreet and discrete arrangements, make this a real step up for Grater -- with the caveat that this is her world and you might only ever feel like a visitor. – Graham Reid

Bandana Club – Diatribe Blog With a distinctively smooth coffee-and-cream voice that is reminiscent of both Stevie Nicks' vocal performance in Fleetwood Mac's Dreams and Wire Daisies vocalist Treana Morris, Flip Grater has created a masterpiece of Indie subtlety in her new album While I'm Awake I'm At War. Every aspect of the album speaks of craft; simple, clear guitar licks and a softly-played violin which carries the listener down a dark river. Minimal bass lines and a muted rhythm give the album a soft-spoken, melancholy sound that makes the heart ache and the mind reminisce and remember. The lyrics are intelligent, thought-provoking and meaningful. It has a little bit of a country feel, but not of checkered-scarf-and-square-dancing ilk; instead it's a more folk-like sound, which evokes images of windy Celtic landscapes and salty driftwood scattered over a long stretch of lonely, wind-swept beaches. It does make use of the much-maligned steel guitar in tracks such as I am gone, but the effect is more along the lines of Chris Isaak's Wicked Game, which - coincidentally - followed on the TV almost immediately afterward. Dark and evocative (as the best Folk music always is), but with a thin vein of light running through it (in tracks such as Bullet that I ride), While I'm Awake I'm At War is a superb arrangement by any measure and an absolute must for any fans' collection. Play it on a dark and stormy night, when the rain pours and the wind howls. Pour yourself a dram while staring at the embers of a dying fire...and (re)discover a sound that caresses the mind and heart, a sound that evokes thoughts and feelings...

Good Magazine – August/September 2010 Flip Grater is a singer and songwriter dynamo. Daughter of the Archdeacon of Canterbury and an organic vegetable farmer, this Buddhist and long-time vegan was an outdoor guide and snowboard instructor before becoming a professional musician. A teenage animal rights complainer with the group SAFE, Flip’s petition against the use of drift-netting that was threatening the Hector’s dolphin secured her the nickname Flipper. The best art comes from suffering, so returning from Sweden in her twenties with a broken heart, music was her antidote. And then writing: an epic national tour for Flip’s debut album Cage For A Song was followed by the book The Cookbook Tour: Travels in NZ Food and Music. Then the second album, an EP, five self-funded and one NZOA-funded music videos and tours through ten European countries. Zthe next tour book with recipes is due out in 2011. Flip’s musical style has been described as acousto-folk with shades of angsty indie. Melodic vocals, deftly picked guitar and a top line-up of musicians ensure her new album While I’m Awake I’m At War is another eminently listenable offering. As fellow vegan and buddy Samantha Hayes says, “When you listen to Flip Grater you can’t help but fall in love with her a little bit. Her latest album is languid, smooth and delicious.”

M2woman Magazine – Spring 2010 Flip Grater a Christchurch-born musician is releasing her third album, which features some friends you may know. Goldenhorse, Goodshirt and LA Mitchell to mention a few. Add weight to this masterful unknown. Gentle and thought-provoking lyrics were made even more powerful, thanks to the stunning clear tones in her voice. With the album just shy of slipping into a dark depression, Flip pulls back in time to keep it strangely beautiful. * Gorgeous, indie, folk, pop music, almost pastoral in places. Delicately arranged, beautifully played. Lyrical and very pretty. Flip has a way with words and you find yourself bewitched.

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