Katie Kim (Irish musician)
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Background information | |
Birth name | Katie Sullivan |
Born | London, England | 16 March 1983
Origin | Dublin, Ireland |
Genres | Indie folk, lo-fi, ambient, alternative rock |
Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter, composer |
Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, bass piano, keyboards |
Years active | 2008–present |
Labels | Flaming June |
Katie Sullivan (born 16 March 1983), also known as Katie Kim, is an Irish musician, singer-songwriter and composer.
Personal life[edit]
Born in London to Irish parents, Katie Kim was brought to Waterford[1] in Ireland as a child. In her late teens she moved to Dublin to attend university where she continues to reside.
Sound[edit]
Katie Kim performs atmospheric alternative folk rock music as a solo project, using a loop station and both classical and electric guitar. She also performs with as part of an ensemble, playing guitar, bass, keyboards and singing.
Music career[edit]
Katie Kim has released four studio albums, Twelve (2008) Vaults (2010) Cover & Flood (2012) and Salt (2016). She most recently released a live album with Crash Ensemble where the collective reworked the songs of her previous album, Salt. Kim's 'drone-folk' style on the record was compared to Scandinavian folktronica artists such as AURORA and Eivør.[2] They performed this in its entirety to sold-out audiences around Ireland between 2016 and 2018.
She has also composed a film score, an original soundtrack for The Seashell and the Clergyman. Commissioned by the Cork French Film Festival, Kim performed the score at the Pavilion, Cork in front of a live audience, where renowned director Agnès Varda attended.
On 15 August 2016 she released the track "Foreign Fleas" through her Bandcamp site.[3]
Kim released her fourth studio album Hour of the Ox in September 2022.[4]
She has worked with various musicians and bands, including Halves, Mike Scott and The Waterboys, David Kitt, Ed Harcourt and Radie Peat, a folk singer with the band Lankum.
Discography[edit]
Albums[edit]
- Twelve (2008)
- Cover & Flood (2012)
- Salt (2016)
- Hour of the Ox (2022)
Singles[edit]
- "Radio" (2008)
- "Heavy Lighting" (2012)
- "The Feast" (2013)
- "Foreign Fleas" (2015)
- "Salt" (2016)
Film scores[edit]
- The Seashell and the Clergyman (La coquille et le clergyman) (2011)
Appears on[edit]
- The Nightsaver – David Kitt (2009)
- It Goes, It Goes (Forever & Ever) – Halves (2010)
- An Appointment with Mr Yeats – The Waterboys (2011)
- Songs to Save a Life – Various artists (2012)
- Final Witness (Episode 6: "A Mother's Revenge"/ Episode 7 – "What the Boy Saw")[5][6]
- Beekeeper – Steve Wickham (2017)
- Wild Wild country - The award winning netflix series in 2018 featured the song 'Day is coming' in the first episode of season 1
- CYRM – The 2023 debut album from the irish folk group ØXN (Katie Kim, Eleanor Myler, Radie Peat and John “Spud” Murphy). [7]
References[edit]
- ^ Murphy, Lauren (18 September 2016). "A shot at the dark". The Times. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ Wiser, Danny (23 April 2022). "IRELAND: Salt - Katie Kim". 200worldalbums.com. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
- ^ "FOREIGN FLEAS, by Katie Kim". Katie Kim. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ "Hour of the Ox review: Katie Kim offers light and darkness". Retrieved 10 September 2022.
- ^ Media relations, ABC. "FINAL WITNESS: A Mother's Revenge". Final Witness press release. ABC media relations. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- ^ Preblick, Patrick. "Final Witness What The Boy Saw". ABC Television Network. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- ^ Rogers, Jude (27 October 2013). "ØXN: CYRM review – Irish folk debut full of unsettling dark magic". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
External links[edit]
- Official Katie Kim website
- Katie Kim at AllMusic
- Katie Kim discography at Discogs
- 1983 births
- Alternative rock bass guitarists
- Alternative rock guitarists
- Alternative rock keyboardists
- Alternative rock pianists
- Alternative rock singers
- Living people
- Irish film score composers
- Irish folk musicians
- Irish women bass guitarists
- Irish women guitarists
- Irish keyboardists
- Irish women pianists
- Irish women singer-songwriters
- 21st-century Irish singer-songwriters
- Musicians from Dublin (city)
- Musicians from London
- Musicians from Waterford (city)
- 21st-century Irish women singers
- 21st-century Irish pianists
- 21st-century bass guitarists
- 21st-century women pianists
- 21st-century Irish guitarists
- 21st-century Irish bass guitarists
- 21st-century Irish composers
- 20th-century Irish folk musicians
- 21st-century Irish folk musicians