Winter Wheat

Prayer for Ruby Elm

Memories is the lead single on Favours debut LP "Made to Wait" due August 7th

Words by Alex Zen

Recorded / Engineered by Josh Korody at Candle 2019.

Mastered by Bryan Lowe 

Art work by Katia Engell

All songs by Favours

Memories -

FONDA - No Begonias

What's Beauty To Do?

Material Life

Eternal Return (Deja Vu)

The Sophtware Slump ..... on a wooden piano

Underneath the Weeping Willow (Piano Version)

Undo Me
And the futures I hold
This rhythm I should know, my storie's told
Dismantel the prose, untethered and exposed
Just leave it a blank space
Close the door

Make it unclear, make it vulnerable
I'd like to hear the birds
Or whatever grammar the world kept from me
Don't spell it I suppose
Don't lower, don't oppose

What are the odds
I missed the score
I'm the tree's branches and open core
Untangle me
Drill through the floor
Spread the news that I'm out for a stroll
And won't come back

Walk past me
Turn around
We're crossing a red line
We've left the track
Defy the percentage
All bodies at the edge of merging inside me
Half this, half that

You made your way
Now wreck it all
Don't leave a single tower standing
Put on display
One last call
Then destroy the neighboor's house, wall to wall







from Was this part of what you believed?, releases September 17, 2020
MOWUKIS is a solo project by Louis-Louise Kay.

Written, composed, performed by Louis-Louise Kay & Angèle Towt.



Mixed and Produced by Louis-Louise Kay
Mastering by Cem Oral at "Jammin Masters" / Berlin

Recorded at [partial:order] / France
MARE NOSTRUM Records

How Much A Body Can Achieve

Tumbledown Weekend

Cool Ghouls - a band fledged in San Francisco on house shows, minimum wage jobs, BBQ's in Golden Gate Park and the romance of a city’s psychedelic history turns 10 this year. What better a decennial celebration than the release of their fourth album, At George's Zoo!

How did San Francisco's fab four arrive at George's Zoo? The teenage friendship of complimentary spirits Pat McDonald (Guitar/Vox) and Pat Thomas (Bass/Vox) serves as square one. The Patricks were munching on Eggo-waffle-sandwiches and downing warm Taaka in suburban Benicia years before McDonald would hear George Clinton address his fans as "Cool Ghouls". The boys played their debut gig as Cool Ghouls at San Francisco's legendary The Stud in 2011, but there's no doubt the musical moment cementing the band's trajectory was much earlier at the 18th birthday party for boy-wonder Ryan Wong (Guitar/Vox) - at the Wong household.

You might remember the Ghouls' earliest days... McDonald’s hair hung luxuriously past his waist, Thomas dreamt of no longer having to crash on friends' couches to call SF home and Wong looked forward to turning 21. Cool Ghouls' Pete Best, Cody Voorhees, thrashed wildly - but briefly - on the drums and Alex Fleshman (Drums), who still claims he's not really "a drummer", turned out to be a really good drummer. Thomas would sleep pee on tour. Those were golden days!

Flash forward to today and everything is up in flames. No shows, parties or bars. Cool people are streaming out of SF. It's been 2 years since the last time Cool Ghouls have even played. The STUD is gone, The Eagle Tavern is for sale and The Hemlock has been demolished for condos. Your boss is an app. Fascism is no-knocking down the door. There's a pandemic.

Fortunately for us, the ghouls got an album in before it all went to shit, and they made it count. At George's Zoo includes 15 of the 27 tunes they managed to eke out while simultaneously working through major life moves. It was a 5-month, all out, final sprint down the homestretch (to Ryan's moving day) with affable engineer Robby Joseph, at his makeshift garage studio in the Outer Sunset (pictured on the cover). Instead of recording the entire album over a few consecutive days - like they'd done with Tim Cohen, Sonny Smith and Kelley Stoltz for the first three LPs - the band took it slow by working through a few songs each weekend after rehearsing them the week before. Robby would cue up the tape, McDonald would throw some steaks on the grill and they'd get to work - much to the neighbor, George's, chagrin.

These guys have a real commitment to elevating as songwriters, musicians and ensemble players. It's always been for the music with Cool Ghouls and this long-awaited self-produced outing is a track by track display of the ground they've covered and heights they can achieve. Their vocals and trademark harmonies are front and center and out-of-control-good. Ryan's guitar solos are incredible. The horns by Danny Brown (sax) and Andrew Stephens (trumpet) hit in all the right places. Maestro, Henry Baker (Pat Thomas Band / Tino Drima), plays keys throughout. There's even a mesmerizing string section ("Land Song") by sonic polyglot, Dylan Edrich.

None of this growth is to the detriment of the fun, natural, feeling that fans have come to expect from the band. This is a fully realized Cool Ghouls album. It paints a remarkable portrait of SF's homegrown heroes and the many corners they've explored over the last decade. The songwriting, harmony and playing are nothing if not solid. The lyrics are keen. Robby's recording and mixing sound great start to finish and even better after mastering by Mikey Young. It's a triumphant addition to their catalogue. Recommended for Stooges and Beach Boys fans alike. Listen and see!

At George's Zoo

Cool Ghouls - Helpless Circumstance

New album "Sabbat Matters" out in March via Howlin' Banana, Outré and Le Pop Club Rds.

Prayer for Ruby Elm

John K. Samson

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