Keith John Adams ‘Roughhousing’ LP
Vinyl co-release on 4 labels: Vacilando ‘68 in the UK, Red Wig in Germany, PIAPTK in Tucson, Arizona & Gray Sky from San Francisco.
Peculiar vinyl mastering: The digital version of the album is a recording of the vinyl album being played on a vintage hi-fi turntable, replete with suface noise and the odd pop. It’s available on CD and from the usual online stores from Functional Electric in the UK.
Keith John Adams says the title of his new album, Roughhousing, is both a description of the recording and a mission statement. The tracks were bashed out at speed to maintain the fun and excitement of recording and to give them a chaotic edge. Adams played nearly all the instruments in a series of sessions around his home town, London. Like a character actor, he adopted different personas for the different instruments to give the recording more of a band sound - despite it being a multi-tracked single musician. Keeping the rough edges also helped it sound more like a rehearsal tape - as was the plan. The tracks Change, No Room & Music In My Feet have already been played on the BBC’s 6Music in the UK. Keith John Adams and the Wildlife will be playing shows in Europe and the US in 2015.
Of the Music in My Feet/No Room double a-side:
“The contrast of sounds is brilliant... This single is great” SEESOUND
“Good wholesome fun from start to finish. This is honest, open and catchy music” WHISPERIN AND HOLLERIN’
Roughhousing is KJA’s 4th solo album after a slow 6 years, prompted chiefly by becoming a father of two. He’s been making music solo since the start of the century though, chiefly in the US where the Athens, Georgia based HHBTM label released two of his albums. That led to tours playing on bills with Of Montreal, Neutral Milk Hotel, Apples in Stereo, Deerhoof and Mountain Goats. He’s also toured Japan with HHBTM label mates Elekibass.
“Great non-programatic pop” THE WIRE
“Addictively fun and off-beat” TREBLEZINE
“Joyously upbeat, reminiscent of Macca at his most catchy” RECORD COLLECTOR
The first three solo albums:
2002’s Sunshine Loft, a quirky folk-pop live recording made in a loft in east London with some longtime collaborators including Rhodri Marsden, currently playing keyboards for Scritti Politti, Matt Armstrong, currently playing bass on Bill Fay’s new records, and an occasional dripping cistern.
2005’s Pip, a fun pop freak-beat affair recorded in London by Ant Chapman of Collapsed Lung.
2008’s Unclever, a garage rock/pop album recorded in Athens GA with Casper and the Cookies (ex Of Montreal) as backing band. KJA wrote and recorded personal songs for the first 40 people to pre-order Unclever from the label, a gruelling assignment that was written about in the Guardian. It took six weeks of almost constant writing and recording.
The more youthful KJA was the singer and driving force behind the 1990s band, Zuno Men. The Melody Maker put them in their A to Z of Crusty, perhaps for want of any other bands beginning with Z. Their 1997 single, Stay in with Me, was Single of the Week on Mark Radcliffe and Mark Riley’s BBC Radio 1 afternoon show. They were labelled art-skiffle by the NME, and the description still often holds true for KJA’s sometimes folky, sometimes garagey, odd-ball pop music.
Released 1st December 2014.
Our favorite online record store x-mist.de says:
Great album by this guy from London. Filled with clever, catchy and witty, joyously upbeat and uplifting pop songs! Sounds smart and makes you feel good from start to finish. One song is called "Music In My Feet", and that's exactly what it sound and feels like. http://www.x-mist.de/band/6054/keith_john_adams
TRASH KIT - 'MEDICINE' VIDEO
'Medicine' by Trash Kit, taken from their forthcoming album 'Confidence' on Upset The Rhythm. The record will be out december 1st and red wig will have a couple of copies for sale as well.
PRINCE BUJU - IN THE WAR
A great tune: Late January 2014, Ghana, Accra, North Kanishie, just outside King Ayisoba's bar, sitting with Abayete and King Ayisoba, his brother and friends. King Buju gets the kologo and plays a fantastic song. Arnold filmed it with the help of the light on his phone.
KEITH JOHN ADAMS - MUSIC IN MY FEET
This song is available as a double a-side with No Room for free at http://keithjohnadams.bandcamp.com - released officially in the usual digital stores in September. Both songs feature on the forthcoming album, Roughhousing.
IT LOOKED SHORTER ON THE MAP by OTPMD
New Video: IT LOOKED SHORTER ON THE MAP by OTPMD from Le Gentil Garçon on Vimeo.
From the new album, ROTOROTOR, release on march 31st on Moi J'connais Records and Red Wig.
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp presents ROTOROTOR, a thrilling third album produced by John Parish (P.J Harvey, Eels, Giant Sand, Dominique A…) and recorded by Ali Chant at Toybox Studio in Bristol. ROTOROTOR (a nod to Duchamp's famous rotoreliefs and to the latter's taste for palindromes) is a manifesto for free and adventurous music, organised in versatile pop songs; playful and fervent, incandescent, funny and impetuous, assuming without ostentation a sort of fragmented futurist traditionalism, combining festivity and war, wedding dances and battle-cries.
Le troisième disque (Rotorotor) de l'Orchestre, produit par John Parish (P.J Harvey, Eels, Giant Sand, Dominique A…) est enregistré par Ali Chant au Toybox Studio à Bristol. Ce qu'on entend ici c'est un groupe au syncrétisme épuré, aux lignes nettes et anguleuses à l'intérieur des quelles un curseur affolé se déplace sans cesse d'une intensité à l'autre, l'imagination toujours en mouvement. Rotorotor est un manifeste de musique libre et aventureuse, organisée en popsongs versatiles, tour à tour ludiques et ferventes, incandescentes, drôles et emportées, assumant sans effet de manche une espèce de traditionalisme futuriste à fragmentation, de multiples identités chatoyantes, un art conjugué de la fête et de la guerre, danses nuptiales et chants de bataille jetés ensemble sur le plancher défoncé.
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp 'Lentillières/Elephants' 7"
Release date 4th of April 2014. From the same session as the new album, these two tracks come on a neatly packed 7" single.
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp 'Rotorotor' CD/LP
Release date april 4th, 2014.
Sortie le 4 avril 2014 sur Moi J’Connais Records and RedWig / MJCR027-RW011
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Lovers 'Welcome Home' 7"
Lovers - Welcome home - Three songs released on a seven inch for their european fall tour. Initially sold at concerts. The single contains 'wander through the time of hearts', 'boxer' and 'lavender light'. Two songs taken from the new album 'a friend in the world' out on badman recording, 'boxer' taken from the 2010 album 'dark light'. Get it here, see 'shop online' page for details. released 31.10.2013 - rw 010
X-Mist records schreibt im Dezember-Newsletter:
LOVERS “Welcome Home” - Erschienen zur Europa-Tour (November 2013) und jetzt auch offiziell erhältlich. 3 wunderschöne, herzerwärmende Electro-Pop Chansons des Damen-Trios aus Portland. Synthesizer, Schlagzeug und dazu ein herausragend schöner Gesang. Irgendwie muss ich dabei an YAZOO denken – und das meine ich als Kompliment.
aus dem OX 112 - Feb/März 2014:
LOVERS - Welcome Home 7"
Auf dieser EP finden sich zwei Stücke vom aktuellen LOVERS-Album 'A Friend In The World' und eines vom 2010er 'Dark Light'. Die sind ziemlich eingängig, vor allem für LOVERS-Verhältnisse. 'A Friend In The World' fand ich streckenweise etwas schwurbelig und damit nicht so recht zugänglich. Auf dieser EP machen es einem die Lovers aber leicht, sie zu mögen. Sowohl 'Wander through the time of hearts' als auch 'Boxer' und 'Lavender light' sind eingängig und machen neugierig auf das, was die Band sonst so kann. Die kommt übrigens aus Portland, Oregon und bewegt sich im queer-feministischen Umfeld. (7) Julia Brummert
Massicot 12"
Massicot 7 Songs
King Ayisoba from Ghana - his response to hearing Massicot in the car: "this is a fine music!" Thats what we think as well. This is a split release between the band, mon cul de paris et red wig.
Massicot est basé à Genève depuis 2009. Une guitare rythmique obsessionnelle, une basse trafiquée, un violon électron libre, une batterie tropical kraut emmenés par de la poésie lettone, forment un amas,une constellation de dinosaures électriques, d’ananas importés, de dessins de nuages, de rythmes enchevêtrés et de gags dadas. Avec l’agressivité d’un tigre en formica, Massicot oscille entre des moments franchement bruyants et énergiques et des phases hypnotiques et répétitives.
With the agressiveness of a tiger in Formica, Massicot oscillates between frank and noisy moments and hypnotic, repetitive phases. An obsessive, rythmic guitar, a modeled bass, a violin as an free electron, tropical kraut drums led by latvian poetry form a mass, a constellation of electrical dinosaurs, imported pineapples, cloud-drawings, intricate rhythms and Dada-jokes. ...
mon cul 56 - red wig 009 - out august 18th 2013.
X-Mist records schreibt im Dezember-Newsletter (2013):
MASSICOT s/t – Sehr originelle und eigenwillige Post-Punk Band aus Genf/Schweiz. Ein schräger, stark rhythmisch orientierter Sound. Seltsam, aber auch anziehend. Als erster Vergleich kamen mir da die frühen THE EX in den Sinn, aber auch frühe britische Post-Punk Bands wie die MEKONS oder FIRE ENGINES. Trotzdem haben MASSICOT ihren eigenen Stil.
Review - OX-Fanzine 113, 2/2014 (April/Mai 2014):
LP // Red Wig // redwig.org // Stark rhythmusbetont präsentieren sich die vier Mädels aus Genf.
Verstörend und düster zeigen MASSICOT einen basslastigen avantgardistischen Hang zum dissonanten Dadaismus.
Post-Punk mit einer sehr eigenwilligen und einprägsamen Note, den es durchaus zu beobachten gilt. Keine Scheibe für Ungeübte.
(8) Jenny Kracht
Kanipchen Fit 'Multibenefit' CD
Gloria Holwerda-Williams : Vocals and tambourine, Empee Williams : Vocals and guitar + effects.
Empee is also guitarist and vocalist for the Netherlands group SOLBAKKEN. Gloria is a poet and vocalist who combines song and word in her solo performances. Together they perform as KANIPCHEN-FIT sans drummmer, who is still in Amsterdam where they last performed at clubs Paradiso and Occii. Their music driven upside with lyrics which groove into your ears.
Kanipchen-Fit are about simple and straightforward songs with double vocals, a rough and long guitar,
but with unexpected rhythmic and harmonic changes, avoiding rock-cliches. With ten songs in half an hour,
Kanipchen-Fit doesn't waste much time getting to the point. Save for a few overdubs, Multibenefit is a live recording, with background noise, little mistakes and streetcars roaring overhead blending into the mix.
Label: HOOVERFLAG
Release date: 15/04/2010 // March 22nd