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Kate Blossom

Jazz singer from Melbourne working in London - releasing 4 EP´s in the "Lo fi and Live in London" series in 2014.

About Me

Kate Blossom is a London based musician who performs both classic and contemporary Jazz standards and writes original songs. Growing up in the Blue Dandenongs – the forested hills outside Melbourne, Australia – Kate listened to her grandmother play her repertoire daily at the piano.

She instantly fell in love with music, and at the keys of that same piano made up melodies, tiny songs and simple poems that would form the nascent roots of the sophisticated and sensual style that she has grown into today.

Inspired to focus her original musical output through jazz, lyrics and songwriting, Kate´s musical seeds were sown. Kate went on to study Music Performance in Jazz, Improvisation and Pop at Box Hill Instituter then Melbourne University / Victorian College of the Arts.

Seeking new musical inspiration, Kate moved to Europe, where Berlin smiled upon her concerts in bars and underground clubs. Following the warm glow of the sun, Kate then moved to Barcelona, where her love of roots music in all genres really came to the fore.

Now, from her home in London, Kate is currently working on her series of 4 releases for 2014, and gigging with her duo, accompanied by acclaimed guitarists Jeff Rodrigues and Aliocha Thevenet, both in the UK and abroad.

The “Lo fi and Live in London” releases are planned for each of the four seasons of 2014. The series is neo-impressionist; it seeks to capture the strings of moments that make the feeling of a gig, to depict and evoke the feeling of the moment of creation.

“Lo fi and Live in London, Vol. 1: Winter” was recorded on St. Valentine´s Day at the duo´s weekly residency at Gremio de Brixton bar in London, and released in May.

“Lo fi and Live in London, Vol. 2: Spring” was recorded at the duo´s weekly residency at Opium cocktail parlour in Soho, and released in September.

Kate is currently mastering the “Summer” recordings, and lining up gigs to record her “Autumn” release at.

My Jazz Story

The goal of the "Lo fi and live in London" series is to capture the strings of moments that make the feeling of a gig, in a sense mimicking the impressionists - Debussy, Ravel, Monet and Manet - as they attempted to depict and evoke the feeling of the moment of creation or sensation. It is essentially anti - perfect, blurry, real, completely live, true, un-tweaked, honest and raw. Because it is a duo, it´s a conversation between two master craftspeople establishing a mood for creative exploration in Art. It isn´t cleaned, studio-ed, fixed, preened. It doesn´t even have perfect sound quality, you can hear the crowd, by design. The series is designed to transport you to a moment that happened, and to let you experience the elevation involved in remaining in the connected - art - creation space for an entire song, and entire set, and letting that flow through you. In this sense it is neo-impressionist. Visually, the cover art concept is reminiscent of the ideas presented above, as is examined in the chic, elegant and moody 1930´s-60´s classic pin-up girl poses juxtaposed with the overlaying of the modern city - a metaphor for the person relating to the city, or the inner in the outer - and that ever evolving relationship.