The extraordinary creative partnership of New Haven, CT duo Kath Bloom and Loren Connors has haunted psych-folk fans since the early 80s.kKath taught herself guitar during shifts as a janitor at a New Haven cemetery, while Lorens free-form idiosyncratic style had been developing since the late 60s. Between 1981 and 1984, the duo recorded two live and four studio albums, mostly self-released in tiny quantities.kEarly on, their music mixed folk and blues traditionals with a hand- ful of Kaths vulnerable, moving originals. By the later albums the songs were all Kaths - her fragile voice and subdued finger- picking set against Lorens abstract but always supportive playing. Together the duo created a sound almost impossibly emotional and haunting. Kath & Lorens first two albums in 1981-82 were live recordings, released via Lorens Daggett Records label. Next came 1982s Sing The Children Over on Massachusetts label Ambiguous Records. Then Sand In My Shoe emerged in 1983 as the first release on Lorens new St. Joan label, in an edition of 200-300 copies with handmade sleeves.kRestless Faithful Desperate and Moonlight followed in 1983-84, before the prodigious duo parted ways. Kath did not release any- thing again until a 1993 solo cassette Love Explosion, but then developed a devoted cult following through the pivotal use of her song Come Here in Richard Linklaters 1995 film Before Sunrise. Kath has since released three solo albums on Chapter Music (Finally in 2005, Terror in 2008 and Pass Through Here in 2015), as well as the Bloom tribute album Loving Takes This Course, featur- ing covers by the likes of Bill Callahan, Mark Kozelek, Devendra Banhart, Josephine Foster and many more.kLoren also retreated from music for a period until re-emerging in the late 1980s. He is now recognised as a pioneering guitar explorer, and has worked with the likes of Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Jim ORourke and many more. After reissuing Kath & Lorens four landmark studio albums on CD in the late 2000s, Chapter has now embarked on the first ever vinyl reissues for these remarkable records. Restless Faithful Desperate was reissued in 2018, while Moonlight will be released alongside Sand In My Shoe in October 2019. Sand In My Shoe includes five digital-only bonus tracks, from 1982 live EP Pushin Up Daisies, as well as comprehensive digital liner notes.