Into the unknown
For the past two years, the life of acclaimed British avant-pop singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon – who plays two concerts here next month – has been defined by disparate dots on the map, threads of friendship and 21st-century technology.
Just before lockdown in early 2020, the 39-year-old Welsh-born musician, who relocated to Los Angeles in 2013, left her newly purchased home in rugged Joshua Tree in southern California and flew to Iceland to produce an album for American songwriter John Grant.
After completing that project, her intention was to work on the follow-up; perhaps in Norway, Chile “or somewhere remote, not influenced by anything other than what we were doing”.
