About
Kim Oehme is a songwriter and Folk musician from the Northeast of Scotland, now residing in Glasgow. Oehme’s style and music is rooted in personal experience; her songs are reflective and poignant with elements of traditional acoustic folk and Americana. An accomplished guitarist, she moves her audience with honest and contemplative songs delivered with steady and soulful precision.
Kim has performed alongside Cahalen Morrison, Kris Drever, Kathleen MacInnes, Tommy Prine, Ivan Drever and Lizabett Russo, and has played venues around the UK like The Green Note, London, Traverse Theater, Edinburgh, Hug and Pint, Glasgow, Folk House, Bristol, Carnlingi Nights Out, Wales, The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen, Glenbuchat Hall, Glenbuchat among many more.
Clouds of Age
This EP was recorded in a little cabin by the woods which I built and spent many a wonderful year in. Designed and built by myself in 2013 through 2015, with help of family and friends (special thanks to my Dad here), this off-grid cabin became a home by the woods where these songs were born. This was a space to create freely, uninterrupted, and playfully. Building this is so far is the hardest thing I’ve done. I didn’t know how to put up a shelf prior to the build, so I had to learn on the job. I ended up gaining much more than I had intended. I learned to write in this place.
When the property the cabin sits on was to be put up for sale, I knew the best way to say goodbye was to capture the sounds of this cabin chapter and allow the recording to carry me through and to collect a few of the songs and the space for an audio memory book.
Here it is.
You can hear the crackling and ticking of the hot stove, the never-ending presence of the birds and the quietness of the space. I am so happy to have these unique sound memories recorded and am proud of the work done during recording to make these songs into what they are.
Thanks for listening.
Produced by Ewan Macpherson, Cahalen Morrison and Kim Oehme
Kim Oehme - acoustic guitar, nylon string guitar, vocals
Cahalen Morrison - mandolin, banjo, upright bass, harmony vocals
Ewan Macpherson - electric guitar
Upcoming Dates
For bookings contact Kim at: cailleach.booking@gmail.com
Press
‘A fascinating blend of Scottish folk and American country, a new-to-me sound that had me wanting to hear much more from this artist.’
-Devon Leger, Hearth Music
‘Kim Oehme… was quite a revelation’
‘Quietly transcendent’
‘Oehme ploughs a… furrow with her songs coming across as if her neck of Scotland was nestled within the Appalachians.’
-Paul Kerr, Americana UK