Caroline K
{{Short description|English singer, songwriter and artist/producer}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Caroline K
| image =
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| birth_place =
| birth_date = 1957
| birth_name = Caroline Kaye Walters
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2008|7|12|1957|10|9|df=yes}}
| death_place = Pisa, Italy
| instrument = Vocals, tape loops, keyboards, bass guitar
| genre = Experimental
| occupation = Singer-songwriter, musician, artist
| years_active = 1979–2008
| label = Sterile Records, Earthly Delights, Klanggalerie
| past_member_of = Nocturnal Emissions
Class War
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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 in the 1980s. She co-founded Sterile Records with Nigel Ayers in London in 1980. She played piano on the Class War 7 inch EP single Better Dead Than Wed!{{Citation|title=Class War - Better Dead Than Wed!|date=26 October 1986 |url=https://www.discogs.com/master/241268-Class-War-Better-Dead-Than-Wed|language=de|access-date=2022-02-25}}
She released her solo LP Now Wait for Last Year{{Cite web|url=http://www.earthlydelights.co.uk/discog/carolinelp.html|title=Nocturnal Emissions Discography – Caroline K now wait for last year|website=Earthlydelights.co.uk|accessdate=3 July 2020}} 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.{{ref|names}} She lived in Garfagnana, Italy.
Caroline K died on 12 July 2008 in Pisa, Italy, from leukemia 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
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References
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- [http://www.earthlydelights.co.uk/archive/sterile/cassettes.html Accessed 20 January 2008]
- [http://www.earthlydelights.co.uk/archive/sounds.html Interview (with Nigel Ayers)] in Sounds Magazine 1983
- [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Nocturnal+Emissions Extended discography]
- [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Caroline+K Caroline K at Discogs.com]
- [http://www.last.fm/music/Caroline+K Caroline K at Last FM]
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External links
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- [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Caroline+K Discography at Discogs]
- [http://musicbrainz.org/ MusicBrainz] entries for [http://musicbrainz.org/show/artist/relationships.html?artistid=550580 Caroline K] and [http://musicbrainz.org/show/artist/?artistid=71848 Nocturnal Emissions]
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Category:English experimental musicians
Category:English women singer-songwriters
Category:English singer-songwriters
Category:20th-century English women singers
Category:20th-century English singers