Kath_Bloom_and_Loren_Connors--Sing_The_Children_Over-Sand_In_My_Shoe-2CD-2008-i8

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2008-10-25

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      a r t i s t : Kath Bloom & Loren Connors
        t i t l e : Sing The Children Over-Sand In My Shoe
          d a t e : 2008
        l a b e l : Chapter Music (CH63)
        g e n r e : Folk
  r l s.  d a t e : Oct/2008
      t r a c k s : 29
    b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
          s i z e : 79,7 MB

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     The first of Chapter Music's reissue series for New Haven, CT
     avant-folk legends Kath Bloom & Loren Connors, who recorded
     together between 1978 and 1984, releasing their incredibly
     haunting and beautiful folk records in microscopic editions
     with handmade sleeves. Chapter compiles their first two studio
     albums, with rare and unreleased material.

     Meeting in 1976 in their hometown New Haven, CT, Kath Bloom
     and Loren Connors formed a creative partnership that has
     haunted psych-folk fans ever since, releasing 6 albums of
     fragile avant-garde folk-blues in miniscule quantities, all of
     which now change hands for huge sums.

     At first, their performances were based on drama and
     improvisation, with Kath acting out monologues while Loren
     played his attenuated free-form guitar, extrapolated from
     Mississippi Delta and Chicago blues. But while Loren worked on
     his now legendary nine volume series Unaccompanied Acoustic
     Guitar Improvisations, released between 1979 and 1982, he and
     Kath's performances gradually became more song-based, taking
     the spirituals, blues and work songs of the American South as
     their foundation. Kath began practicing guitar among the
     headstones of New Haven's Grove Street cemetery, entertaining
     herself there so often that she was given a job by the
     groundskeeper, while Loren began

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