Kath Bloom - Terror

Terror is the follow-up to seminal avant-folk cult figure Kath Bloom's 2006 return to active musical duty, Finally. The new album was recorded at
Barking Spider Studios in Warren, Connecticut with Kath and her husband Stan Bronski. The daughter of world famous oboist Robert Bloom, Kath
grew up in New Haven, CT, where she started playing guitar among the headstones of her local cemetery as a teenager. She met avant-garde guitarist
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grew up in New Haven, CT, where she started playing guitar among the headstones of her local cemetery as a teenager. She met avant-garde guitarist
Loren Mazzacane Connors in 1976 and together they recorded six limited edition albums of fragile folk and blues melodies, ending with final album
Moonlight in 1984. Chapter Music will be re-releasing four of these albums - Sing The Children Over, Sand In My Shoe, Restless Faithful Desperate
and Moonlight - as a pair of two disc sets this summer.
Her new songs, however, reveal a singer and songwriter as accomplished and affecting as Lucinda Williams or Gillian Welch. Most tracks primarily
feature Kath's gentle guitar picking, haunting vocals, and mournful harmonica, although guitarist Marty Carlson (owner of Barking Spider Studios),
husband Stan and longtime collaborator Tom Hanford added finishing touches to many tracks. The material ranges in vintage from brand new (i.e.
"Marty, I just wrote this yesterday") to as far back as her days with Loren (Something To Tell You).
Soon after her collaboration with Connors ended, Kath and Stan moved to Florida together to live amidst the orange groves, buying and rehabilitating
old houses. After a period of child-rearing and family life, Kath began to return to recording in the early 90s. Director Richard Linklater discovered
Bloom's music around that time and featured her song Come Here in his 1995 film Before Sunrise. By then, Bloom had begun recording again in
earnest, self-releasing a series of cassettes and CD-Rs starting with Love Explosion in 1993 and including Come Here: The Florida Years in 1999.
Finally, released on Chapter Music in 2006 was her first non CD-R release since 1984's Moonlight. Presently Kath is playing with her band Love at
Work (which includes longtime collaborator Tom Hanford and husband Stan Bronski) offering a musical tour de force of programs for children and
adults as well as playing solo shows in the Northeastern US.

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