New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
(Above photo: Diverse)
Last weekend, hundreds gathered at the Plaza Art Fair for art, food, music, and fun. The Ink stage hosted some of Kansas City’s most popular bands. See our photos below, from Todd and his budding photographer son, Ian Zimmer.
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Pat Tomek is one of the most versatile people you’ll meet in the Kansas City music community. He plays drums in town with legendary KC songwriter Howard Iceberg, spends time rocking across Norway with the Rainmakers, and engineers albums for local groups. This week you can find out a little bit more about one of the most successful drummers in the area. Catch the beat right here!
On The Beat is typically brought to you by Sergio Moreno, but has been overtaken this week by KKFI 90.1 host of Signal To Noise, Barry Lee. This weekly interview features some of the many talented drummers in the area.
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–-Terra Peal
| Terra is a musician who has been around the Kansas City music scene for over 22 years. She is the singer and bassist for The Quivers and holds down the low end for Drew Black and Dirty Electric. She is also the official calendar girl for The Deli Kansas City. She’s a lil pep, a lil spice, and a lil Ginger. |
On September 14, all current and former members of Federation of Horsepower gathered at The Brick for an hard-hitting evening of rock ‘n roll. Check out our photos here:
All photos by Todd Zimmer. Please do not use without permission.
(Photo by Chad Cogdill)
Recently, we caught up with Scott Chaffin, the manic musical mind behind Chocolate Velvet, Vitae & the Pale Horse, and The Black Bullet Promise. He also writes and edits for another awesome local music blog called Kill Your TV KC. Here are his thoughts on one of his latest musical releases (Humans by Chocolate Velvet), a Beefheart-Beethoven marble sandwich, and mistake-free art.
The Deli: Gun to your head, 1 sentence to describe your music. What is it?
Scott Chaffin: It’s trashy bedroom pop and indie funk played by a man raised on classic rock, new wave, early hip-hop, and old-school punk.
The Deli: Let’s talk about what you have coming up. What can we expect?
Scott: Humans is my newest album which is part of a bigger work unofficially titled The Monster Trilogy. It is the final installment of the three LPs. The first two installments, Vampires and Zombies, were released this year as well. Each album was written around a concept/story and each hopefully expresses some social or existential relevance. The basic sound of the LPs revolves around a genre of music I refer to as trash pop. Trash pop, for me, is the culmination of decades of music ingested and then regurgitated through DIY standards and passion. I can use pieces of hip-hop, classical, classic rock, punk… whatever fits the song, and then remodel it as trash pop. A few close fans have expressed that The Monster Trilogy is my finest songwriting to date. It certainly is the songwriting I’m currently most proud of. A listener will hopefully experience real moments of unfiltered emotion colliding into deeply personal and weirdly one-of-a-kind songwriting.
The Deli: What does "supporting local music" mean to you?
Scott: Seeking out the talented musicians in the area in which you live and downloading their music, going to their shows, and buying their merch. I complained and whined about the community of local musicians for a long time because I really felt that the community was either nonexistent or grossly elitist. Then I had an epiphany; if I really felt that there was no community then I should help create a community. If I really felt that the community was elitist then I had to help bring the smaller, talented projects to the forefront. So, I muscled my way into Kill Your TV and declared myself the unofficial music editor. Now, I spend my time seeking out local bands on Bandcamp and other Internet sites (I prefer Bandcamp), contacting them in an attempt to implore them to help me form a more inclusive and definable Kansas City music community. It won’t hurt the more known local acts to embrace the smaller ones. We need Kansas City audiences to get even more interested in ALL KC music and really pour their support into their favorite bands and take chances seeking out new local bands.
The Deli: Who are your favorite "local" musicians right now?
Scott: Oobergeek, The ACB’s, Grenadina, Ddean Cassidy, Merriweather, Kitten Tits, Dolls on Fire, Deco Auto, Elsa Rae, Man Bear, Calvary Kevlar Calvary, Let’s Talk, Sports, The Quivers, Molly Picture Club… I’m sure I left someone out! After really delving into the local music scene I have found that KC could really be the next "it" town. What would it take? All of these great local musicians elevating each other! Showing the world we have a real community that values good music over precious egos.
The Deli: Who are your favorite not-so-local musicians right now?
Scott: Tom Waits, Guards, Hospitality, Monster Rally, Harlem, feel alright, The Roots, Beach House, Mayon, Service:Fair, Radiator Hospital, and I LOVE Karen Dalton (weeps a bit when he types her name).
The Deli: What is your ultimate fantasy concert bill to play on?
Scott: I don’t think of that to be honest. I have recently come to the realization that each and every performance is my ultimate fantasy. I put every part of myself into my music and performances. Wherever I’m playing I hope that the audience will be able to feel all the raw emotion that I feel. That the audience will experience the rush of energy and want their brains to explode into a thousand pieces exactly like my brain is exploding playing the music! If that answer doesn’t suffice then I would say an all day FREE KC local music festival featuring bands hand-picked by me!
The Deli: Would you rather spend the rest of your life on stage or in the recording studio?
Scott: Recording studio. I prefer to be where music is made. The stage, IMO, is where music is interpreted and sold through performance. I love performing but I almost never see it as creating music. When music is performed, people remember the spectacle. When music is recorded, it’s archived and distributed for the interpretation of the listener. Therefore, I see recording as a purer form of the ultimate message because of its portability and unfiltered construction.
The Deli: A music-themed Mount Rushmore. What four faces are you putting up there and why?
Scott: Bob Dylan. Johnny Rotten. Captain Beefheart. Beethoven.
Each one was an innovator, a poet, and they were all most likely deeply understood. Dylan did it with words. Johnny Rotten did it with attitude. Beefheart did it with imagery. Beethoven did it with emotion.
The Deli: All right, give us the rundown. Where all on this big crazy web can you be found?
Scott: Chocolate Velvet: www.chocolatevelvet.bandcamp.com
Vitae & The Pale Horse: www.vitaeandthepalehorse.bandcamp.com
The Black Bullet Promise: www.theblackbulletpromise.bandcamp.com
And you can read my reviews/stories and listen to compilations of my favorite KC artists at www.killyourtvkc.com.
The Deli: Always go out on a high note. Any last words of wisdom for the Deli audience?
Scott: Buy a guitar and make your own music and post it online for free! Send it to Kill Your TV KC! Don’t think about HOW it should sound! Make it sound the way you feel! There are no mistakes in art. Just be yourself and as long as you don’t hurt anyone, be exactly as weird as you feel! You only have one life: use it.
Scott’s a busy guy. He recently released Moan with Chocolate Velvet, an EP of unreleased songs from The Monster Trilogy. His newest project, Slum Party, will be making its debut on Saturday, December 15 at the Kill Your TV Awards show at Club 906 in Liberty.
–-Zach Hodson
| Zach is a lifetime Kansas City resident who plays multiple instruments and sings in Dolls on Fire and Drew Black and Dirty Electric, as well as contributing to many other Kansas City music, art, and comedy projects. He is very fond of edamame, treats his cat Wiley better than he treats himself, and doesn’t want to see pictures of your newborn child (seriously, it looks like a potato). |
Though The Lucky is a relatively new Kansas City band, the group is already working hard to play on larger local bills and begin recording. We sit down with the duo, Jason McKee and Camilla Camille, to find out more about who they are and what they have going.
The Deli: Gun to your head, 1 sentence to describe your music. What is it?
The Lucky: Indie-garage-punk-pop-riot revival with a beat you can dance to.
The Deli: Let’s talk about what you have coming up. What can we expect?
The Lucky: Jason McKee: We’re playing with The Sexy Accident at the recordBar this Friday and with Drew Black and Dirty Electric at Coda on Saturday. We’ve added some new songs to our set.
Camilla Camille: We have a Kickstarter campaign starting this Friday and we are going to record a CD with Pat Tomek. And we have a show with Schwervon! on September 28 at The Riot Room; it’s their record release party. They just moved here from New York. And you can expect lots of fun music, laughter, theatrics, maybe some stage drama, some choreography, perhaps, some hoofing, and an all-around good time.
The Deli: What does "supporting local music" mean to you?
The Lucky: Camilla Camille: It means going out to shows and buying local bands’ CDs and t-shirts. Generally banging your head in the audience, screaming "yay!" and "woohoo!" while they’re playing. And talking to them afterwards telling them what you liked about their show.
Jason: Going to shows is important, and a worthwhile investment if you’re a music lover, but I also think if a band puts on a good show, it’s important to tell them afterward that I liked it and what I liked about it. And when I see a band I really like, I try to tell other people about it so they can experience it, too.
The Deli: Who are your favorite "local" musicians right now?
The Lucky: Jason: Jonathan Thatch, our Friday night drummer. Brian Jewell, our Saturday night drummer. Pat Tomek, who’s sitting in on drums for the September 28 show at The Riot Room. I love the show The Beautiful Bodies always put on. Cherokee Rock Rifle. Deco Auto. Drew Black and Dirty Electric. The Cave Girls. The Bad Ideas. Schwervon!.
Camilla Camille: You, Michelle Bacon. And The Cave Girls. Robin Powell Campbell. And The Bad Ideas. And The Beautiful Bodies. And Deco Auto. And Drew Black and Dirty Electric. And The Quivers.
The Deli: Who are your favorite not-so-local musicians right now?
The Lucky: Camilla Camille: Right now I have been listening to Devo, Bad Religion, Spank Rock, The Black Keys, The Cramps, and The Dollyrots.
Jason: I listen to a lot of The Libertines and Babyshambles. The Black Keys, Jack White’s various projects. Lately, I’ve been getting into The Germs. I listen to The Clash a lot, too.
The Deli: What is your ultimate fantasy concert bill to play on?
The Lucky: Jason: Us with Cream, The Sex Pistols, the Libertines. Or, since this is fantasy, maybe letting Mozart, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones open for us.
Camilla Camille: Well that would require that we time travel because I would really like to open up for The Cramps, but since Lux is dead, that’s impossible. Otherwise, The Lucky could open up for the Black Keys or go on tour with Jack White, either The Raconteurs or The Dead Weather, or his solo project, or a reunion with Meg White for a White Stripes tour. But it would be kind of cool to time travel.
The Deli: Would you rather spend the rest of your life on stage or in the recording studio?
The Lucky: Camilla Camille: I would say I would like to spend the rest of my life on stage. However, it would be really neat to sleep in a recording studio, like if my bedroom was a recording studio. I would have a bed in there, a dresser, and a desk, but it would also have a stage area. I could combine both of them and have a stage in the recording studio and just live in there. That would be great. And of course there would be videos of the stage performances in the recording studio, which would be my bedroom.
Jason: It would definitely be on stage because performing for people and interacting with them gives me a rush I don’t get anywhere else. Plus, I have little patience for hearing playback of myself over and over.
The Deli: A music-themed Mount Rushmore. What four faces are you putting up there and why?
The Lucky: Jason: John Lennon because he’s John Lennon.
Eric Clapton: "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" made me want to be a guitar player.
Lou Reed for having his own vocal and lyrical style and breaking away from what everyone else was doing.
Kurt Cobain for bringing soul and meaning back to rock music after it had been overtaken by cheesy hair bands.
The Deli: All right, give us the rundown. Where all on this big crazy web can you be found?
The Lucky: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/
Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/
Bandcamp: http://thelucky.bandcamp.com/
The Deli: Always go out on a high note. Any last words of wisdom for the Deli audience?
The Lucky: Camilla Camille: Face your fears, stand up for yourself, look at the colors, embrace nature, write poetry, eat your vegetables, be grateful what you have, and tell your boyfriend how much you love him.
Jason: As the Butthole Surfers said, "It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something that you haven’t done." And tell your girlfriend how much you love her.
You’ll have plenty of opportunities to catch The Lucky in the next two weeks. Tonight, the band will be at recordBar with The Sexy Accident, Crush, and John Harrison and The Harrisonics (FB event page). Tomorrow, it’s Coda with Drew Black and Dirty Electric (FB event page). Next Friday, The Lucky will be at The Riot Room for Schwervon!’s record release party with them, Folkicide, and The Conquerors (FB event page). Now you have no excuse but to make it to a show.
–Michelle Bacon
| Michelle is editor-in-chief of The Deli – Kansas City. She also has a weekly column with The Kansas City Star and reviews music for Ink. She plays with Deco Auto, Drew Black and Dirty Electric, and Dolls on Fire. She played piano for about 8 years straight and can’t seem to remember much of it now. Ho hum. |
This Sunday, Midwest Music Foundation will be presenting a local compilation CD release party at the recordBar, featuring a sampling of Kansas City’s hottest bands.
We sat down with MMF’s Brenton Cook, who compiled the CDs, to find out more about the compilation and the bands he’s excited to highlight in it.
The Deli: What gave you the idea for making a compilation?
The Deli: Were there any bands you thought of immediately when thinking about putting this together?
The Deli: Any surprises in here? Bands/songs that we might not be familiar with? Any unreleased material?
The Deli: What new local bands are you most excited about?
The show begins at 7:00 pm at the recordBar this Sunday, September 23. $10 will get you in the door and you’ll be able to take home a free double CD. Gemini Revolution takes the stage first, followed by Reach (with Diverse), then Grand Marquis, Antennas Up, and Everyday/Everynight. 18+. Facebook event page here.
Also sponsored by Ink Magazine.
–Michelle Bacon
Matthew Hayden is one of the coolest, most laid-back drummers in Kansas City. He makes up an important third of Molly Picture Club, and this week he talks to us about his approach to the group, as well as other projects he has going on. Catch the beat right here!
On The Beat is a weekly interview brought to you by drummer Sergio Moreno (of Hillary Watts Riot and Alacartoona), and features some of the many talented drummers in the Kansas City area.
Looking for dark disco with a tinge of sexuality and a double dose of David Byrne? Look no further than the three-piece Kansas City group Molly Picture Club. This week we sit down with all 3 members to find out their views on gun control, Nickelback and disco balls.
The Deli: Gun to your head, 1 sentence to describe your music. What is it?
Molly Picture Club: Matt: Gun in your ass and I’d tell ya.
Mike: Why the fuck do you need a gun, dude?
Aniko: Giant exploding disco balls from the future are cooler than guns any day.
The Deli: Tell us about your latest release or upcoming shows. What can we expect?
MPC: Mike: We’ve been writing pretty consistently since May, so I think you should expect new songs to be coming up either at shows or somewhere on the Information Superhighway. We want to keep evolving into the next version of ourselves and I think the songs we have in the cooker show that natural progression of us becoming more aware of what we’re doing.
Aniko: We’ve been in the sandbox, just playing with whatever toys we find. We want to open our insides to experiment with cool sounds, conceptual ideas, sweet-ass dance grooves, and basically just shake off any preconceptions we may have made about ourselves. Wow, that sounds super pretentious! I just mean that we’re trying to stay free in what we do, have fun, and hopefully people will like it, like we like it. In September, look for new songs, new ideas, and a surprise or two here and there.
Matt: New song, fall shows, blah blah blah.
The Deli: What does "supporting local music" mean to you?
MPC: Matt: It seems pretty simple; If you want to be supported, then you better support me and we will all be happy with lots of people at everyone’s shows. It’s a community thing. You grow the tomatoes, I’ll grow the peppers, she will grow the onion and he can make the salsa. It works together.
Mike: Every band in the world was a “local” band at one point, with the exception of Nickelback, who came straight from Satan’s asshole.
Aniko: Well, Satan’s asshole is sort of a "locality"… but I digress. I think supporting local music means getting away from the egos—in other words, give it your all and don’t be trying to always compete for local darling status. Look at what cool stuff people are doing, and let yourself be inspired. Clap for the other team if they just pulled off something crazy, even if that made your shit look just a little less shiny. Then, go and put on the kind of show you’d want to go to. Every time you play, whether it’s to a big crowd or just your band mates and the bartender dude. KC represent!
The Deli: Who are your favorite "local" musicians right now?
MPC: Aniko: I can always trust Cherokee Rock Rifle to rattle me to my core, and Actors and Actresses to soothe my savage soul afterwards.
Mike: I really dig what Parts of Speech has going on, always interested in what Amy Farrand is doing, The B’Dinas, Ghosty, and I’m intrigued at what Soft Reeds could pull off on their next album.
Matt: I like the Snuff Jazz crew, Go-Go Ray‘s projects, London Transit, Hearts of Darkness, Sons of Brazil, and Miles Bonny.
The Deli: Who are your favorite not-so-local musicians right now?
MPC: Mike: Metronomy, Handsome Furs, Turnpike Troubadours, Louis Armstrong.
Aniko: Lately, I’ve been digging on Metronomy, RJD2, Hard-Fi, St. Vincent, Gogol Bordello, and on and on it goes.
Matt: Donald Byrd, Afrolicious, Antibalas, Freddie Hubbard, Jorge Ben, Gil Scott Heron, Cedric Im Brooks.
The Deli: What is your ultimate fantasy bill to play on?
MPC: Aniko: Hmm. There are lots of musicians on my fantasy list. With this band, I would melt over a bill with Metric, David Byrne, Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, and the Gorillaz. It’d be a super duper dance party!
Mike: David Byrne, Brian Eno, Polyphonic Spree, Wolf Parade, and Tiny Tim.
Matt: David Byrne would do for sure. David Bowie, David Gilmore, Fernando David.
The Deli: Would you rather spend the rest of your life on stage or in the recording studio?
MPC: Matt: Love recording and will definitely do that forever, but playing live is a special experience as well.
Mike: I don’t think I’ll ever not be on stage. I’ll be 60 and playing Talking Heads covers in a diaper. I’ve already got the Facebook invite up.
Aniko: 60 seems early for a diaper. I hope to still be just discreetly peeing my pants while playing at that age. But seriously, both please! I am in love with being in the studio and I absolutely love playing shows. That’s like trying to choose between your two babies. I guess who you love just a little bit more depends on the day.
The Deli: A music-themed Mount Rushmore. What four faces are you putting up there and why?
MPC: Mike: Wow. That’s the most awesome question I’ve ever been asked. Charlie Parker for revolutionizing jazz, Bob Wills for bringing country swing, jazz, and pop together, Michael Jackson because he was fucking Michael Jackson, and Ringo Starr as long as he has a moustache.
Matt: Easy. James Brown (USA), Bob Marley (Jamaica), Fela Kuti (Africa), Jorge Ben (Brazil) of course.
Aniko: Joan Jett for being a bad ass chick, one of the guys from Kraftwerk, and let’s be honest, no one can really tell them apart, for being pioneers in electronic music and also from another planet, ditto for mutha-f’ing Michael Jackson, and Mozart because inside of me lives a giant nerd who played violin since she was little tiny nerd.
The Deli: All right, give us the rundown. Where all on this big crazy web can you be found?
MPC: Just Google “Molly Picture Club." We’ve got that market cornered on the web. We’re all over the web, in your face, and behind your neighbor’s bushes.
The Deli: Always go out on a high note. Any last words of wisdom for The Deli audience?
MPC: Mike: Don’t fart in an elevator.
Aniko: Make sure you have a box of disco balls with you, wherever you go.
Matt: "I am the Walrus."
Molly Picture Club is (L to R above):
Aniko Adany
Matthew Hayden
Michael Tipton
This Saturday, September 22, Molly Picture Club will be throwing a big dance party along with London Transit and La Resistance at the recordBar. The show will be interactive, with an overhead projector allowing the audience to draw on the band while it plays (Facebook event page here). Don’t miss it! The group also recently formed Talking Heads’ tribute Found A Job, and they’ll be performing with other special guests at the recordBar on Tuesday, October 30 (Facebook event page here).
–-Zach Hodson
| Zach is a lifetime Kansas City resident who plays multiple instruments and sings in Dolls on Fire and Drew Black and Dirty Electric, as well as contributing to many other Kansas City music, art, and comedy projects. He is very fond of edamame, treats his cat Wiley better than he treats himself, and doesn’t want to see pictures of your newborn child (seriously, it looks like a potato). |
(Photo by Leah O’Connor)
With the very first chord struck in a melancholy minor tone, you can place a safe bet of what you are getting yourself in to. The next thirteen minutes of your life will be consumed by a capivating acoustic attack on the establishment. Of course we all love occasionally raging against the machine, but the outstanding level of grace and finesse portrayed by Folkicide in The Genocide is Mean EP remains incomparable.
The 5 songs included on this EP explore the glass half-empty side of the human condition. There is an overwhelming sense of pessimism that embodies the album. The mellow, acoustic chords and simplistic drumming raise the distinct vocal sounds to a pedestal. It becomes clear that the guitar and percussion are simply there to follow the lyrics—which are the true center of attention in all 5 songs.
Bold statements like "I worship the devil," in "Black Metal" and “Power to the people, a recipe for evil,” from "Power to the People" accurately depict the EP’s tone. It seems as though Folkicide is offering up an alternate way to think about lifeperhaps in a form that is easier to swallow.
Catchy lyrical hooks find themselves anchored in the brain, almost forcing you to think of the deeper meaning. Before long, you will find yourself singing along with Folkicide, raging along side him in his journey to discover what is wrong (or right) with society.
The Genocide is Mean was recorded by Chubby Smith at his Magical Tractor Shed in Perry, Kansas. The EP was released in July. Songs performed by Folkicide on guitar/vocals, and Zach Turner on drums. Folkicide recently released a video for one of the tracks on the EP, "Unleash The Young." Watch it and read our take on it at the link here. You can see Folkicide perform on Friday, Saturday 28 at The Riot Room for Schwervon!‘s CD release party with them and The Lucky.
–-Steven Ervay
| Steven is intern for The Deli Magazine – Kansas City and Midwest Music Foundation, and he’s awesome! |
If you just haven’t received enough kisses in your day, The Empty Spaces‘ brand-new video, "Holidays Are Nice and Warm," is sure to provide you with plenty in 2 minutes and 45 seconds. Along with a healthy, carefree dose of melodious pop. Follow the band’s exploits attempting to get kissing booth smooches in Westport. Guaranteed Optimus Prime helmets, lampshade drumming, and most of all, fun. Video directed by Micki Hadley.
Listen to tracks from Party Line at the band’s page on here at Golden Sound Records.
"Holidays Are Nice and Warm" is on the band’s EP Party Line, released earlier this year by Golden Sound Records and was The Deli KC’s July CD of the month. The trio will be playing next at The Brick on Friday, September 21 with Shy Boys and Desodean. Facebook event page here. They will also be at the Plaza Art Fair on the Ink stage at noon on Saturday, September 22.
The Empty Spaces are (L to R above):
Mat Shoare
William Brent Wright
Ross Brown
–Michelle Bacon
Every time I try to review this album, I get distracted by something shiny. It’s like my mind goes on a little “this one time, at band camp …” journey to some weird place where I have fierce opinions on those that demand I wear shoes and the only important thing to me is contemplating if my head could fit inside the Styrofoam cup I’m drinking from. I’m pretty sure I’d make it, but my face contends otherwise. This argument goes on for at least twenty-five minutes before I remember I was intently listening to a new album. Fortunately for me, this is the perfect music for that sort of thing.
My new found ADHD aside, Gemini Revolution is an LP from Gemini Revolution, a psychedelic KC jazz rock outfit. I had originally heard the material in the form of two separate EPs, but it comes across as a much stronger effort in the full album form. Whereas in shorter doses it was difficult to determine which direction this group was going in, the album provides a perfect layout of its style. Oceans of swirling synthesizers crash amongst the sparse jazzy rhythm section. Along comes the occasional island of sandy white vocals, reverberating near and far in the high-sky sun, but soon once again you are left swimming in the moody psychedelic depths.
The songs seem very loose form at first listen, bordering absent-minded at times, often extending into seemingly bottomless jams, but start to exude consistent melody and intent as you go deeper down the rabbit hole. Whereas trends in pop music usually dictate a song lives or dies by its beat and vocals, Gemini Revolution seems to take pride in the fact it uses both of those things as just another tool in the box.
The opening track features the strongest sense of songwriting and vocal variety. The female background "ahs" provide a soothing and serene balance to the almost-too-harshly-reverbed main vocal. This song features the most accessible hook on the record and is passed effortlessly amongst the various instrumentation. The song trails out with a well orchestrated guitar/keyboard outro that leaves a pleasant pop taste in your mouth.
Another standout is "Through the Woods." The vocals are reverbed to the point I can’t really understand them (and even my most skilled “Gemini Revolution lyrics” Google searches don’t turn anything up), but this song exudes an aura of adventure and exploration. It really hits home during the sections in which the female vocal teases back and forth with a lush collaboration of keyboards. These sections are probably my favorite moments from the entire record. This would be a great song to zone out to while enjoying a nice leisurely Sunday afternoon space flight, just throw your hair back and enjoy the solar flares.
All in all, Gemini Revolution really hammer home who they are with this effort. There are no pop pretenses here, no playbooks or rules they choose to follow. It is pure music exploration into the cosmos. Solid and unconfined.
Gemini Revolution is (L to R above):
Dedric Moore
Mika Tayana
Delaney Moore
Gemini Revolution’s new self-titled album was released by Upstairs Recordings (Canada) and is now available on iTunes. The band will be performing at POP Montreal on Thursday, September 20. If you want to see them a little closer to home, they’ll be playing at 7:00 pm Sunday, September 23 for the release of the local compilation CD from Midwest Music Foundation. Double CDs are free at the door.
–-Zach Hodson
| Zach is a lifetime Kansas City resident who plays multiple instruments and sings in Dolls on Fire and Drew Black and Dirty Electric, as well as contributing to many other Kansas City music, art, and comedy projects. He is very fond of edamame, treats his cat Wiley better than he treats himself, and doesn’t want to see pictures of your newborn child (seriously, it looks like a potato). |
