Mural painted during Ort cafe residency. © kate hall 2018
This is a collection of musical works in progress by Kate Hall - please listen below, preferably with headphones, and see track listings for full collaborator credits.
Audio adventures as songs and soundscapes inspired by beauty, comedy and tragedy in equal measure ...celebrating nature in all its diversity and protesting inequality of all kinds...
…an attempt to knit ideas together from the fragments and threads of days as they pass…I dig for stories in the muddy layers between myth, magic and mayhem…I fish for soundscapes in the ocean of tone…capture whispers from buildings and machines as they emerge like a breathing pulse… and record echoes from landscapes as they blow by in the wind…
Songs
These songs were written during lockdown and DIY recorded and produced in collaboration with session players over the last year.
Spoken word soundscapes
These soundscape experiments are collages carved from site-specific recordings and spoken word sketches, with the hope of adding a visual element and evolving these ideas further…
Soundtracks
These pieces were recorded live as a soundtrack to a short film I made ‘Quintessence’…
Collaborator credits
All tracks written, recorded and produced myself, Kate Hall (KH), unless otherwise stated. Other players collaborated on their parts as listed. All tracks mastered by Brian Duffy.
Track listing
Reluctant Bridesmaid
Turnover
Birds in Cages
The Flip and the Flop
Beige Rage
Chapter One
Maria
La Voie Vide
Soundtracks
KH – Vocal, all guitars, electric bass
Paul Shirley – Keyboard
Tim Strang – Drums
KH – Vocal, guitar, melodica, recorder, additional percussion
Paul Shirley – Tenor sax
Paris Fennel – Bass
Tim Strang – Drums
KH – Vocal, main guitar, intro bowed guitar, textures, gong and percussion
Paul Shirley – keyboard
Martin Vernon – Violin, lead guitar
Paris Fennel – Bass
Tim Strang – Drums, backing vocal
KH – Vocal, classical/electric guitar
Paul Shirley – Lead classical guitar
Martin Vernon – Violin
Ollie Pyper – Bass
Tim Strang – Drums
KH – Guitar, clarinet, alto sax
Paul Shirley – Tenor sax
Paris Fennel – Bass
Tim Strang – Drums
Recordings made during Ort Café residency 2018
KH – all instruments and samples except the main piano run - played by Martin Levins
KH – vocals, textures, singing bowls/gongs, clarinet, harmonium
Collaboration with Neil burns during a 3 day composition course with Gavin Bryars, (CAMP, France, 2018)
KH – Vocal, clarinet
Neil Burns – Vocal, piano
Members of the course – Background vocal harmonies
KH – Piano, clarinet, zither, singing bowls, gongs, voice, percussion
Andrew Jarvis – Drums, trumpet, voice
Jon Riley – Electronics
Victor Crow – Zither, voice, hosepipe, percussion
© kate hall 2023 katehall2000(at)hotmail.com
To hear more music, please visit: ANOTHER RHYTHM JESUS