Katie Kim + Tiago Silva

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Brief introduction

With a fierce independence in language and form of performance, insisting on self-publishing through her I Actually Like Music as the primordial way of conveying her music, Katie Kim arrives in Portugal in the living aftermath of the edition of Hour Of The Ox, fifth album in his own name, after collaborating with Crash Ensemble on Salt Interventions. Originally from Dublin, Kim has trodden an atmospheric territory where the singer-songwriter syndrome is obliterated in a sense of constant discovery that asks for measures both in the liveliest processes of modern composition and in some of the most misguided pop.

An album that walks steadily and steadily in a constant limbo between intimacy and theatricality, restraint and expansiveness, Hour Of The Ox is, so far, the most revealing piece of Kim’s vision, in nine songs where her voice is so close, sometimes just above from a whisper, he takes on the narrative axis of his stories made of diffuse memories, paranoia, anguish and the resignation of lonely days. The slow rhythms in a hypnotic torpor where the darkness lets itself be invaded by rays of light in a deliberate and patient progression to which gloomy synthesizers rush in their time, string arrangements that give cutting tension reach liberating spaces and creeping sounds with no defined origin in an intoxicated fog where possible, even so, to glimpse some hope. It’s worth it to us. BS