S03E14 – Passing Through Air

Time to take a trip back in time to a track that was recorded well before Never For Ever: the lovely little song Passing Through Air. Released as the b-side to Never For Ever‘s final single Army Dreamers, Passing Through Air was recorded in 1973 at the age of fifteen, when Kate was still a teenager writing songs by herself in the comfort of the family home. Recorded with David Gilmour and his side project Unicorn, Passing Through Air is an interesting two-minute trip into what Kate’s music was like as a teenager. To talk about this obscure song this week, we have the wonderful Christopher Kelley, the host of Dream of Orgonon, a blog that is going to detail every Kate song in order of release. Christopher wrote an extensive analysis of this song, so we’ve invited him to talk about this song on the show. We’ll talk about the history of the song, the demo version, and another rarity that was probably recorded at about the same time (and which will finally be released with Kate’s box sets in November: Humming). It’s all here in this episode! Song clips used: Passing Through Air Need Your Loving (Passing Through Air piano demo) Other links: Christopher Kelley’s blog on Passing Through Air