Rabbits Full of Magic

24 August 2018

 

Music Update

Kiwis
There is a new Kiwis 7" coming out soon. The test pressings have come in and it sounds good. It is called Jazzercise, it is 4 tracks and based on the concept of fitness. All tracks recorded by Andrew Nicholson and Adam Bruneau (that's me), with cover art by him and most arrangements by me. The title song is Yamaha synth pop that has a brief psychedelic dub breakaway section. Next is "Run For Your Life", a Damned-style noise punk track, about running from someone that is chasing you with a knife but doing it for the exercise. Side two opens with "Swimming Away", another Yamaha lofi pop song, a piano rave sort of in the classic dancepop "The Twist" mode or whatever about swimming away from a sinking ship. The final track is "5K", a psychedelic lofi bullshit track with pitch shifted raps and honestly it's just an absurd silly track we made up on the spot when we were way too stoned. That's sort of always been the Kiwis' whole MO. I like that we have gotten so good at recording and mixing and have nice microphones now and stuff but we still make this messy DIY joke music.

It is funny, if I had the money I have now back when we were doing music 10-15 years ago, I would have released so much vinyl, made so many projects. But I was broke as fuck. Of course nowadays I can't spend all day fucking around playing music like I used to, so it's a bad trade off. Ideally I would have tons of money when I was young and had tons of time and energy and ideas. Time is a right bastard. Oh well, this is why doing things like this Kiwis 7" is important, even if nobody ever hears our music. Vinyl is eternal, that shit is made out of dinosaurs, an EMP bomb could go off and wipe every computer on the planet and the vinyl music will still be playable. Long Player indeed.

Frank Hurricane
Frank is a friend of mine who goes way back and he is an incredible human being. His music is mostly psychedelic folk (just him & a acoustic guitar doing 10 min drone tracks) but he has this indomitable spirit and optimism that just shines through everything he does along with his absurd and wonderfully idiosyncratic vocabulary ("Top shrymp"). Once I went on tour with him for less than a week and he was constantly telling me "It's gonna be life-changing brotha!" Magical things were happening - we played psychedelic rock at an ancient Spanish castle, saw otherworldly mushrooms and plants at the holy Indian mounds, got high at the grave of the Allman Brothers.

The day after shows we would walk through the towns to get coffee and he would be skipping around just tripping out on how beautiful of a day it was, smiling and greeting every person we passed, putting everyone around us in a good mood, like some modern saint or something. It was beatific. Honestly I have never seen that kind of energy from a person, and being around it, seeing that positivity and deliver and create amazing experiences, was a treat. He was in town recently, as he has moved to Athens, so I was able to meet up with him and a fellow musician (Sirius Bee) last weekend to record music for a new album he is working on. It is a psychedelic Pink Floyd-via-David Crosby song about "Tears of the canyon" and "The irish lass on her wedding day" (me and Bee were going to a wedding the day he wrote the song, so he typically decided to include that detail). No idea if it will ever see the light of day but this guy is a certified genius and we will definitely be making more music together in the future. Check out his Bandcamp page to hear his latest LP Mountain Brew Light. Dude is a genius.


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