Original 2008 press release:

Chapter music is honoured to announce the first of two double disc reissues by extraordinary early 80s folk duo Kath Bloom and Loren Connors.
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 six albums of fragile avant-garde folk-blues in minuscule quantities, all of which now change hands for huge sums.
At first, Kath would act out monologues while Loren played his 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, he and Kath’s performances gradually became more song-based. Kath began practicing guitar among the headstones of New Haven’s Grove Street cemetery, while Loren’s idiosyncratic style had been developing since the 1960s.
By the early 80s, after self-releasing two limited edition live albums, the duo were playing occasionally outside of New Haven, and soon Boston independent label Ambiguous Records approached them to record their first studio effott. Acclaimed jazz critic and music historian Nat Hentoff wrote sensitive, insightful liner notes and Sing The Children Over emerged in 1982.
Sing The Children Over mixed traditional folk and blues songs with Kath’s originals, and tracks such as It’s So Hard To Come Home and The Breeze/My Baby Cries revealed Kath to be an accomplished and moving songwriter. It also set up the dynamic template that she and Loren would follow over their remaining recordings – Kath’s fragile voice and subdued finger-picked guitar set against Loren’s play- ing: abstract, skittering, sometimes atonal but always intuitively supportive. Together the duo created a sound almost impossibly emotional and haunting, one unlike anything created before or since.
Kath and Loren released three more albums - Sand In My Shoe, Restless Faithful Desperate and Moonlight, in 1983 and 84 - all on Loren’s own Saint Joan label in editions of 200-300 copies, and all featuring noth- ing but Kath’s original compositions. The last two albums will also be released by Chapter Music as a double disc set in August.
By 1984, however, Kath was married with a young son, and Connors himself was entering a new relationship, so the duo found themselves drifting apart. After she and Loren’s final album Moonlight in 1984, Kath did not release anything again until a 1993 solo cassette Love Explosion. She then developed a devoted cult following through the pivotal use of her song Come Here in Richard Linklater’s 1995 film Before Sunrise, and has released two solo albums on Chapter Music, including the brand new Terror.
Loren also retreated from music for a period, focusing on other forms of writing until re-emerging in the late 1980s. He is now recognised as a pioneering guitar explorer, and has worked with the likes of Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke and many more.
And now, after almost 25 years, Kath Bloom and Loren Connors’ original recordings are again available to be soaked up, marveled at and relished. Both double disc sets include extensive liner notes, original photos and artwork, and a treasure trove of bonus tracks!