This album was written and recorded in quarantine in March 2020.
All vocals and instruments performed by Kate Bass
All songs and lyrics by Kate Bass

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After a deeply fulfilling year of traveling all over the world collaborating cross-culturally with other songwriters and singers, I am now alone in my California apartment having been quarantined for 14 days. As with so many other people, most of my work vanished with the lockdowns and coronavirus closures. I spent the first few days of this in an utter existential panic about everything. And then I sat down and wrote some music. And sang. And did that some more. And little by little, I felt better. I wanted to release a full professionally recorded album this year. Instead I have spent the past 12 days from early morning until late night, hardly eating or sleeping, just making music. And I recorded an album, entirely on my own.

It’s rough around the edges; I used GarageBand circa 2008 and a casio Privia keyboard from around the same time. I had to make weird sounds with my breath and fingers and hands and feet and random objects to try to simulate drums. I learned to play a little bit of the guitar (with a wacky tuning, but STILL). And I have spent hours upon hours, literal blood, sweat, and tears, trying to put all hundreds of layers together to make a real album worthy of people listening.

If two people listen to this and feel calmed, moved, happy, loved...if it makes a few people think about something maybe a bit differently, or if it just provides nice background music for cleaning the house or drinking some coffee or maybe one day traveling somewhere again...then I can’t imagine being a richer person. I lost my musical spark for a few years and felt like half of me was missing. Well, thanks to the current times of adversity, music came back to me. I am so grateful. I hope you enjoy my little album. I’m so proud of it.

I cannot afford to buy an album myself, so I am releasing this album by donation. Take it for free if you need. I only ask that you pass this on to others. I believe that art, like love, is meant to be shared.