Fever Dreams, by Kate Carr

Fever Dreams

by Kate Carr

supported by

mikehoolboom A suite of ambient miniatures, each opens with a stereo panned glitch that loops before giving way to moody tones and fizzy circuits. Quiet, thoughtful and lovely. Favorite track: And in that Silence I Found a Clue.

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

£7 GBP or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Design by Kia Tasbihgou. Full colour sleeve, black vinyl.

Includes unlimited streaming of Fever Dreams via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 4 days

£20 GBP or more
Subscription

Subscribe now to receive all the new music Kate Carr creates, including this release and 14 back-catalog releases, delivered instantly to you via the Bandcamp app for iOS and Android. You’ll also get access to subscriber-only exclusives. Learn more.

Subscribe Now £5 GBP/month or more

1.	Sulfuric Haze 02:40	buy track
2.	Disassembling 09:27	buy track
3.	A Remora on the Underside of a Manta Ray 03:42	buy track
4.	Vast Wings Oscillating 08:26	buy track
5.	Swimming in a Spiral 02:18	buy track
6.	Planktonic Clouds 04:03	buy track
7.	And in that Silence I Found a Clue 01:58	buy track

about

“Composed during one of London's endless dark and locked down winters, Fever Dreams is a fantastical, speculative take on high density living. From dark, mouldy rooms, subterranean depths, symbiosis and multi-species entanglements, it cloaks itself in the claustrophobia, excitement and despair of living in a metropolis. It is a work which both celebrates and fears the weeds, spores, vermin and grime of London. The dark fantasies, frustrations, and utopian aspirations of its urban survivors. Frozen plastic bags, cramped living quarters, the kindness of strangers, the desperate unfairness of who gets what and when. Almost getting there but not quite. Being overcome by emotion for no reason. Unexpectedly moved, inexplicably destroyed. The never still, forever unfolding moments which comprise living on top of each other. Sinking and swimming; together/apart.”

- Kate Carr

A smouldering, sunken sound from Kate Carr on her album for Mana, exploring a latent and inward pressure from a mix of field recordings; gongs; underwater reverberations; flickers of static and electricity; found reel-to-reel choral recordings, played forward and backward. The result is a gothic dub and dark ambience that hangs heavily in the air, a narrative of middle spaces and dense environments where noise and muffled secrets bleed through the thin plasterboard from the next room over.

Texturally and emotionally it's a potent mix of insulated hope and gritty reality, holding a microphone to space and sound that the mind might otherwise blot out. Multi-species, metal, organic, and digital, dirty, self-built gathering ground, with towering verticals, deep subterranean depths, and gritty layers of lived-in grime, watery and terrestrial, human and non-human pressed together.

credits

released June 15, 2023

Artwork by Kia Tasbihgou
Vinyl mastered and lacquer cut by Kassian Troyer @ Dubplates and Mastering, Berlin.

2023 Mana

license

about

Kate Carr London, UK

“Probably the most significant field recordist of contemporary urban Britain…” - The Quietus.

Kate Carr’s practice explores the textures and technologies of field recording using movement, objects and experimental recording techniques. She creates intimate, delicate and hybrid soundworlds which emphasise interactions and shared experiences within them. ... more

gleamingsilverribbon.com

contact / help

Contact Kate Carr

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Kate Carr, you may also like:

A Field Guide To Phantasmic Birds
by Kate Carr

supported by 28 fans who also own “Fever Dreams”
go to album
Everywhere at the end of time
by The Caretaker

supported by 25 fans who also own “Fever Dreams”

Actually astounding and emotionally moving, creating a community that I have been proudly a part of for 2 years OrsonXD
go to album
a softer focus
by claire rousay

supported by 25 fans who also own “Fever Dreams”

Evocative and engrossing. burntstick
go to album
LOADING//:fluids
by antxnio graz

These gracious, spellbinding pieces from composer and sound artist antxnio graz reflect on the ideas of rest and community care. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 29, 2022
go to album
SUBWAY
by Ali and the Clouds

“Subway” moves from soothing ambient music to sharp avant-garde and back again, capturing the spirit of the titular train. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 8, 2022
go to album
Assembled Parts
by Sullivan Johns

Striking experimental compositions that conjure both childhood joy and icy terror, every second of it riveting. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 4, 2022
go to album
everything perfect is already here
by claire rousay

supported by 24 fans who also own “Fever Dreams”

what can I even say about this that I haven't already said about other claire albums. it's the first one I heard and also probably my favourite of hers katsumashi
go to album