Caroline K – Now Wait For Last Year (1987)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. The Happening World 20:50
2. Animal Lattice 04:56
3. Chearth 06:04
4. Tracking With Close-Ups 04:45
5. Leaving 02:37

Caroline Kaye Walters (1957 – 12 July 2008), known as Caroline K, was an English singer, songwriter and artist/producer.
She was a co-founder of the legendary UK industrial groups The Pump and Nocturnal Emissions with Nigel Ayers, contributing voice, synthesizer, bass and drum programming to the group’s early releases.
She was also responsible for Sterile Records alongside Nigel Ayers, 

a record label that released albums by Lustmord, SPK and Maurizio Bianchi.
Her only solo album, the title of which was taken from a Philip K. Dick 1966 sci-fi novel that revolves 

around a pill-based hallucinogenic drug, was released on Earthly Delights in 1987 entitled "Now Wait For Last Year".
The album is considered a classic of beautiful and haunting ambient recordings 

full of autumnal atmosphere and melancholy.
In 2010 a remastered/reissue CD version of the LP saw the light of day through the Austrian Klanggalerie label 

and featured three bonus tracks ("In Between The Spaces 1-3") that were recorded after the album, 

while a second CD reissue of the same label that was released in 2015 featured one more bonus track ("In A Box") 

taken from the Sterile Records compilation "Standard Response" from 1980 

that Caroline recorded under the pseudonym S.M. Andrews.
In later life Caroline retreated from the public eye, and in 2001 married Daniel Ayers 

(Nigel’s brother, also of Nocturnal Emissions, and her collaborator in The Pump), moving to Garfagnana, Italy, 

where she resided until her death from leukaemia complications on July 12, 2008.

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