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![1]

Caroline K
Birth nameCaroline Kaye Walters
Born1957
Died12 July 2008(2008-07-12) (aged 50)
Pisa, Italy
GenresExperimental
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, musician, artist
Instrument(s)Vocals, tape loops, keyboards, bass guitar
Years active1979–2008
LabelsSterile Records, Earthly Delights, Klanggalerie

She released her solo LP Now Wait for Last Year[2] 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.[1] She lived in Garfagnana, Italy.

Caroline K died on 12 July 2008 in Pisa, Italy, from leukemia complications.

Discography edit

Studio albums edit

  • Now Wait for Last Year (LP, Album) Earthly Delights 1987 (re-released in 2010 in CD format by Klanggalerie with bonus tracks)

Production edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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 edit

  • Funky Alternatives Three (CD)
  • Tracking with Close-Ups Concrete Productions, Pinpoint Records 1989

Notes edit

  1. ^ Class War - Better Dead Than Wed! (in German), 26 October 1986, retrieved 25 February 2022
  2. ^ "Nocturnal Emissions Discography – Caroline K now wait for last year". Earthlydelights.co.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2020.

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