:: Tintern Abby

The Kate Rays is Kim Floyd’s current project. You can find the music she makes with Tony Chance on bass and Mark Hubbard on drums on Bandcamp. I recommend it. But I discovered some tracks on Soundcloud that predate The Kate Rays and that got me curious. Kim who usually sings and plays guitar is now based in Jacksonville, Florida. I believe at some point she was in New York City. I wonder where she was in 1997. The tracks from her project Tintern Abby date from that year. There are three songs on Soundcloud: “Foreign Types”, “Degas” and “Novocaine”. Were there demos? Were they part of a release? I couldn’t find any information. The name of the project is clearly taken from the beautiful Tintern Abbey located in Wales. I must say I visited it once, more than 10 years ago and was blown away. They are the ruins of an abbey, but it is amazing, the location, the structure that still stands, the moss, the stonework, the green areas around it. I went to Chepstow from Cardiff. Visited the…