Raspberry Silk are Kim Novak and Milo Black. We met while we were members of Colorado Musicians Allied Promotions and started making music together shortly after. In the summer of 2002, Milo left the partnership, but Kim continues to promote the wonderful music. Learn more about us below.

Milo Black produced all of the music for Raspberry Silk, playing an assortment of guitars, programming MIDI instruments and controlling the digital recording process. The curious might like to know that he lives and works in the UK - and Milo Black is not his real name, and he's not really a dawg. When asked about the dawg photos, all he will say is "The dawg is better-looking than I am". Go figure.

Milo has been playing music since age ten, working through an assortment of classical instruments, bands and orchestras until finally hitting on the guitar in his early twenties. He played in a collection of "going nowhere" bands, and worked briefly as a solo folk musician until settling down to recording in 1990, when a motorcycle accident gave the dual benefits of lots of time convalescing and a big cheque from the car driver involved.

Joining the on-line music scene in 2000 not only gave him a way to release these mainly solo recordings on an unsuspecting public, but also introduced him to other enthusiastic and productive musicians. Many internet collaborations followed, eventually giving rise to not only Raspberry Silk, but also to the all-canine rock band Grumpy and Lumpy, in which Milo provides the "Grumpy", with the "Lumpy" areas being covered by Duane Tate. Add the lovely Tammy Swindell, and you'll have his collaboration project, Two Outlaws and a Lady.

Kim Novak is the voice of Raspberry Silk. She co-produced the music and played her Takamine Santa Fe acoustic guitar on some songs. For those of you who like to know these things, she was born and raised in Texas, USA, and still lives and works there.

Kim has been singing and playing music since junior high (with her first Wurlitzer organ - she now has a Korg synthesiser), and started playing guitar in high school. She toured the US with her church choir, (also playing bass), but her songwriting and recording work only really kicked off in 1997, thanks to a friend with a 4-track. Discovering on-line music in 2000 gave Kim a new musical lease of life, and a way to get her songs heard by a wider audience. Through the medium of the internet, Kim has also become an enthusiastic and dedicated collaborator. Away from Raspberry Silk, she also forms half of folk duo Rose and Blows (with Duane Tate), not to mention working on song projects with a whole host of other independent musicians.