Biography

Cary Grace is a songwriter/composer, producer, musician, and analogue synthesizer maker based in the UK.

She was born in South Carolina, and lived in Nashville for many years, releasing her first album in 2004. 2005 saw her relocating to England, bringing only four guitars, her cat, and a couple of dozen boxes.

Since then, she has been working with various other musicians recording and and writing prolifically and releasing five more full-length albums and two EPs [ full discography > ].

Her first double album, 2009's Perpetual Motion, is heavy on improvisation, but the improvisational aesthetic is blended with Cary’s distinctive songwriting to create something that is simultaneously both free-flowing and structured.

2010 brought a return to more conventional song-forms with the debut self-titled album by Monday Machines (a collaboration with Allan Coberly, backed by Andy Budge and David Payne).

The same year she began producing The Airtight Garage, a music-based programme and podcast, for FromeFM.

In 2011 Cary acquired the exclusive American modular synthesizer brand, Wiard, following a lengthy training period where she learned how to build the hand-made 300 Series modules first-hand from Grant Richter, the founder of Wiard. During the same time period she released a single recorded in collaboration with Mauve La Biche after adding some Buchla 200 overdubs — a cover of the Amon Duul II classic "Archangel's Thunderbird", followed several months later by the most recent full-length Cary Grace album, Constant Things.

She now manufactures Wiard Synthesizers in England at Wessex Analogue, and is working on at least two new solo albums, while continuing to produce her monthly radio show.

For news and updates, you can visit Cary’s page on Facebook, follow @carygrace on Twitter, or join the email list.