Louise Patricia Crane
Louise Patricia Crane is a Northern Irish singer, songwriter, and visual artist born on 8 December 1984 in Belfast. She blends romantic escapism with dreamlike progressive rock, earning praise as a leading figure in psychedelic prog.
Crane began her career fronting the gothic rock band Solemn Novena in 2006. They released an EP, As Darkness Falls, in 2006 and the full album Kiss The Girls in 2010 before the band split two months after the release. She then formed Raven Adore in 2011, releasing a limited EP, Let’s Watch Flowers Bloom, in 2012.
In 2013 she auditioned for The Eden House and joined them in 2016, appearing on the 2017 album Songs for the Broken Ones. Crane launched a solo career with the 2020 album Deep Blue, which features Jakko Jakszyk, Ian Anderson, and Scott Reeder. The album reached No. 8 on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart and No. 20 on the Official Independent Albums Chart. She was voted No. 5 for Best Female Vocalist in Prog magazine’s Readers’ Poll of 2020.
Alongside music, Crane is a visual artist who creates album artwork. She started Peculiar Doll Records in 2019 to release her own music. In 2022 she released Springtime, a piano-and-vocal track she wrote, produced, recorded, and mixed herself in her home studio.
Her 2024 album Netherworld, which she co-produced, has been described by Classic Rock as a feast of dreamlike prog and psych-folk. It explores personal themes drawn from life in Northern Ireland and folklore, with animal imagery and a track about her cat Bosco featuring Ian Anderson on flute.
Crane experiences chromesthesia, a form of synesthesia that links music to color and imagery. She is also a trained falconer from childhood and, although left-handed, plays bass right-handed. She continues to create music and art, and her website is louisepatriciacrane.com.
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