In September 2023, Dave was playing at the sold-out Hymns for Robots:System Reboot all-dryer in Lancaster and Kate had also been asked to DJ at the event. (Fact fans – this day also featured James Adrian Brown’s first solo show!)
Always one to add interest and jeopardy at all possible points Dave asked Kate if she fancied doing a duo set in place of the Guerrilla Biscuits solo spot. Kate agreed on the condition that there were no rehearsals and minimal pre-gig discussion about what was to be played, which totally suited Dave!
The show went off a storm (Kate hilariously used a ‘cock and balls’ iPad sketch to modulate a bunch of stuff) and Colin Morrison, who was luckily in the audience, asked the pair to make a record for the CiS Subscription Library. (at the suggestion of Gordon Chapman-Fox).
The following March, Kate, who had been doing a gig in Liverpool, got the train up to Lancaster and the pair spent a happy afternoon jamming in an old school building, the Recital Room. The day got off to a synchronistic start as they both turned up wearing matching Front & Follow’s ’Sound Art For Sound People’ t-shirts and this spookily cosmic mutual understanding shines through in the performances on the day!
They recorded 6 or 7, 10-minute jams which Kate captured on a Zoom H6, all of which are crammed with quietly intense listening and response. Both of them added a bunch of field recordings to the pot and Kate harnessed her finely-honed alchemic powers and brewed it all together into a ‘Dark-Train-esque’ mix that fills both sides of this release.
Anthony at RedRedPaw sprinkled his mastering fairy dust to hone it for a vinyl release and Kate made the very fantastic sleeve from a photo of the building the music was recorded in.
Kate Bosworth is a sound and multimedia artist and radio producer/presenter from Wiltshire in South West England.
Between conscious intention and unconscious drift, Kate serves as an evolving conduit, harnessing the spontaneity of field-recorded sound and drawing upon instinct to weave improvisational segues that unite the music and art featured on Dark Train, a radio programme broadcast on Warminster Community Radio since 2012 and, more recently, on Radio MINERVA in South America.
Kate is one half of the Warminster-based band BMH, which relishes experimenting with remote-location recording, and one third of BlackAnimisM, where they join a Basilisk and a Rooster as a Fox. They are also a quarter of the more recently formed Orquesta Delira.