Kath Bloom
with Slow
(Sun 21st Feb 2010 / 8pm / £8 adv)
Pretty please, pretty please… make sure you have a seat for tonight’s show for one of the great lost folk treasures and a new highly regarded Bristol band in stripped down duo form. The Connecticut based singer/songwriter has a special gift. Her almost supernaturally beautiful, wavering soprano is one that has to be heard. Her tone like her songs is a fragile one, with a hint of Karen Dalton and Gillian Welch but even they don’t have that clear transparent moonlight quality that Kath Bloom has. Tonight she is joined by her friend Ginny on volin.
Kath made some very very limited edition albums in the 70’s and 80’s with the amazingly (and equally dreamlike) guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors, full of songs that float and melt into the ether. Impossibly beautiful. However music was put on the back burner as life changed and she raised a family, trained ‘problem horses’ and taught special music programmes to kids. Just as she was starting to write and release CD-R’s again, Richard Linklater decided to use her song ‘Come Here’ in his 1995 film ‘Before Sunrise’. Life altered - not much - but the public conciousness was rightfully tweaked. Slowly her old recordings and new material have been seeping back into the world. This included a special tribute album by artists such as Josephine Foster, Bill Callahan, Devendra Banhart, Mark Kozelek and Scout Niblet.
You may have heard whispers of her music, seen the look in a fan's eye when they talk of her, maybe even been lucky enough to have seen one of her very rare concerts... or perhaps this is the first time you have heard word about Kath Bloom. No matter. Come Here.
Slow are the invited guest and share that special ability to be both intimate and epic, the beautiful boy-girl vocal harmonies, soundscapes and instrumentation. Their spatial sound and measured pace has drawn comparisons to the Red House Painters and Low.
Ticket holders to this event are allowed free entry to the afternoon's "Haiti Kids Kino Project" event.
Kath made some very very limited edition albums in the 70’s and 80’s with the amazingly (and equally dreamlike) guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors, full of songs that float and melt into the ether. Impossibly beautiful. However music was put on the back burner as life changed and she raised a family, trained ‘problem horses’ and taught special music programmes to kids. Just as she was starting to write and release CD-R’s again, Richard Linklater decided to use her song ‘Come Here’ in his 1995 film ‘Before Sunrise’. Life altered - not much - but the public conciousness was rightfully tweaked. Slowly her old recordings and new material have been seeping back into the world. This included a special tribute album by artists such as Josephine Foster, Bill Callahan, Devendra Banhart, Mark Kozelek and Scout Niblet.
You may have heard whispers of her music, seen the look in a fan's eye when they talk of her, maybe even been lucky enough to have seen one of her very rare concerts... or perhaps this is the first time you have heard word about Kath Bloom. No matter. Come Here.
Slow are the invited guest and share that special ability to be both intimate and epic, the beautiful boy-girl vocal harmonies, soundscapes and instrumentation. Their spatial sound and measured pace has drawn comparisons to the Red House Painters and Low.
Ticket holders to this event are allowed free entry to the afternoon's "Haiti Kids Kino Project" event.