Caroline Kaye Walters (1957 – 12 July 2008), known as Caroline K, was an English singer, songwriter and artist/producer. She was a founding member of the UK based experimental/
industrial music group
Nocturnal Emissions
Nocturnal Emissions is Nigel Ayers's sound art project that has released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro-acoustic, musique concrète, hybridised beats, sound collage, post- industrial music, ambient and noise ...
in the 1980s. She co-founded
Sterile Records with
Nigel Ayers
Nigel Ayers (born 1957 in Tideswell, Derbyshire) is an English multimedia artist.Fernando Cerqueira, '' Antibothis Occultural Anthology Vol.3 p.72''
(Thisco Portugal, 2010), His sound art has included numerous audio releases and live performanc ...
in London in 1980. She played piano on the Class War 7 inch EP single ''Better Dead Than Wed!''
She released her solo LP ''Now Wait for Last Year''
in 1987 (the first release on the
Earthly Delights label). The album's title was taken from a
Philip K. Dick book
of the same name. She also performed as SM Andrews. She lived in
Garfagnana
The Garfagnana () is a historical and geographical region of central Italy, today part of the province of Lucca, in Tuscany. It is the upper valley or basin of the river Serchio, and thus lies between the main ridge of the Northern Apennines t ...
, Italy.
Caroline K died on 12 July 2008 in
Pisa, Italy from
leukemia
Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ...
complications.
Discography
Studio albums
* ''Now Wait for Last Year'' (LP, Album) Earthly Delights 1987 (re-released in 2010 in CD format by Klanggalerie with bonus tracks)
Production
* ''Tissue of Lies'' (LP)
Sterile Records 1980
* ''Funky Alternatives Three'' (CD)
* ''Tracking with Close-Ups'' Concrete Productions, Pinpoint Records 1989
* ''Befehlsnotstand / Shake those Chains'' (CD, Album, Ltd) Klanggalerie 2007
Co-production
* ''Traxtra'' (LP, Album) Trax 1982
* ''Shake those Chains Rattle those Cages'' (LP) Sterile Records 1985
* ''Songs of Love and Revolution'' (LP) Sterile Records 1985 (re-released in CD format by Dark Vinyl Records in 1992, and by Klanggalerie in 2007)
* ''Project One'' (LP) Shankini Nadi The Produkt Korps 1987
* ''Beyond Logic, Beyond Belief'' (LP)
Earthly Delights 1990
* ''Tissue of Lies: Revised'' (CD) Dark Vinyl Records 1990 (re-released by Klanggalerie in 2008)
* ''Befehlsnotstand'' (CD) Dark Vinyl Records 1992
* ''Must Be Musique 2'' (CD) Never Give Up Dark Vinyl Records 1993
* ''Befehlsnotstand / Shake those Chains'' (CD, Album, Ltd) Klanggalerie 2007
Tracks appear on
* ''Funky Alternatives Three'' (CD)
* ''Tracking with Close-Ups'' Concrete Productions, Pinpoint Records 1989
Notes
References
Accessed 20 January 2008in ''
Sounds
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the ...
'' Magazine 1983
Extended discographyCaroline K at Discogs.comCaroline K at Last FM
External links
Discography at DiscogsMusicBrainzentries fo
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Nocturnal Emissions
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1957 births
2008 deaths
English experimental musicians
English women singer-songwriters
20th-century English women singers
20th-century English singers
Deaths from leukemia
Deaths from cancer in Tuscany