Canvass the town and brush the backdrop. Are you sleeping?

Recorded in Bed-Stuy at the cigarette box, Brooklyn, NY between April 2020 and November 2020.

Thank you Joshua, Adam, Colin, Farhad, Courtney, Maggie, Luke, Caleb, Jon, Chris, and Kristen.

NN003
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released October 15, 2021

All music, mixing by Kevin Kenkel*. Mastered by Matt Colton, Metropolis Studios, London. Artwork by Farhad Mirza.

* "The Telephone Song" originally written by Laurie Anderson.
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Softcore

Recorded in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, NY between April 2020 and January 2021.

NN002
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released October 4, 2021

All music, mixing by Kevin Kenkel*. Mastered by Matt Colton, Metropolis Studios, London. Artwork by Farhad Mirza.

* "A Short Illness from Which He Did Not Recover" co-written with D. Hugh Taylor

Vocals: Lucy

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A Short Illness from Which He Did Not Recover

An Amazing Dream About Mt. Fuji

Victory Tears You Apart

Twin Engines

Sleepwalker III

Please, don't

Imaginary Boyfriend (Elodie's Haunted Memory Version) feat. Adam Tendler

A Different Way to Live

Break All the Bones in Your Heart

Sleepwalker II

He Isn't Thinking About You

Sleepwalker I

The Philip Glass Ensemble, Michael Riesman - Einstein On the Beach, Knee 3
Jockstrap - Sexy (ft. Babymorocco)
Birthdays - Howolding Girls (my college band)
Colin Self - Doll Park Doll Park
Pissed Jeans - Vain in Costume
Gigi - PAC
Yelle - A Cause des Garçons (Tepr Remix)
Fever Ray - I'm Not Done (Live Version)
Sonic Youth - Campfire
Kevin Kenkel - A Better Way to Work Part 1 *unreleased track
Kevin Kenkel - Imaginary Boyfriend (Original Version) *unreleased track
Moodymann - Why Do U Feel
Tristan Perich - 1-Bit Symphony, Movement 3
Kevin Kenkel - In Every Dream Home a Heartache *unreleased track
Kevin Kenkel - An Amazing Dream About Mt. Fuji
Daniel Klag - Facsimile
Adam Tendler & Laurie Anderson - Remember, I Created You
Adam Tendler & Missy Mazzoli - Forgiveness Machine

NTS: Prosumer with Kevin Kenkel - January 21, 2025

Kevin Kenkel - Supergirls
Meara O'Reilly - Hockets for Two Voices: VI
Kraftwerk - Tour de France
Mkwaju Ensemble - Mkwaju
Mr Twin Sister - Jaipur
Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed
Holly Herndon - Frontier
Daft Punk - Fresh
Clark - Clutch Pearlers
M83 - Until the Night is Over
The Blue Nile - Heatwave
Oneohtrix Point Never - Love in the Time of Lexapro
Mahogany - Phase Break
M83 - Car Chase Terror!
Water from Your Eyes - When You're Around

WFMU: Polyglot with Jesse Dorris - June 4, 2024

Are more men in your life a good thing? Kevin Kenkel has some ideas.

Over the past years, the Brooklyn composer has built up a body of work that unleashes a tangle of modular synthesizers to map out the networks we use to connect with each other — socially, sexually, sadly, hopefully. His self-released debut album, Will You Please Let Me Pour My Heart Out? (2021) reached out to the world like a cat bathing in the sun, aching for a rub. His second album, and first for Soap Library, Break All the Bones in Your Heart (2024), hosted guests such as Colin Self, Eve Essex, Adam Tendler — and a few ghostly samples — for a series of intimate encounters. What developed was a suite of songs that, like love itself, remain irresistible in their mystery.

Break All the Bones in Your Heart standout “Imaginary Boyfriend (Elodie’s Haunted Memory Version)” now plays the field on Kenkel’s new EP, Imaginary Boyfriend: Versions, for which he commissioned a series of remixes — and added a few of his own.

Originally a three-way between Tendler’s aching piano, waves of distortion, and a few words from the late microtonalist Elodie Lauten, “Imaginary Boyfriend: Piano Version” strips Tendler’s performance to bare bones, with only a bit of room tone, warm as blush. The result is handsome yet lonely — a lover with nimble...  more
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released May 2, 2025

All music written and performed by Kevin Kenkel, except
“Imaginary Boyfriend: Piano Version” arranged and performed by Adam Tendler
“Imaginary Boyfriend: Beat Detectives Remix” by Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos
Recorded and mixed by Kevin Kenkel between June 2021 and October 2023 in Provincetown, MA, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and New York City.
Mastered by DanielJayWilburn.com at DemolitionHQ
Cover Art by Ian Lewandowski, Untitled (Karen) 2021
Design and Layout by J. Campolo
Product Shots by J. Campolo
Project Management by Kerry Santullo
2025

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