Kid Kin's contribution to the the compilation album 'Oblique Strategies' released 20th April 2015, for free download at https://citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/cities-and-memory-oblique-strategies

Cities and Memory is a global field recording & sound art work that presents both the present reality of a place, but also its imagined, alternative counterpart – remixing the world, one sound at at time.

Cities and Memory: Oblique Strategies sees more than 60 artists all over the world reinterpret and reimagine field recordings, using Eno and Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies cards as creative inspiration for their reworking of the original source sound.

Each artist selected a source field recording to reimagine, and was then allocated two Oblique Strategy cards, which they used to guide, inform and inspire their reimagined version of the recording.

Thus, the project builds a whole world of new sounds, created and divined by chance and oblique inspiration.

This album is a selection of highlights from the project that work particularly well together as an album and a listening experience in their own right.

Pianos And Crickets

Binary Coda (Live at The Church Studios)

Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles has announced his fourth full length album 'Persona' will be released on 13th April via Erased Tapes.

The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman’s face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image struck Ryan and it inspired the album’s main theme — an exploration of the persona, the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us, the spaces in between; between states, people, light and dark, the inner persona and the outer persona. 

"My music is generally is generally inward looking. I like finding something about the self within music, that doesn't have to be specific but maybe asks something or reveals something. This record is a continuation on the self through electronic sounds. Like Legowelt once said ‘a synthesiser is like a translator for unknown emotions’, which I think sums up what I am trying to do. I think all these emotions we have make up our persona. So in a way by finding new ones you alter or expand your persona. And that is what I want my music to try to do. I deliberately aimed to be more sonically diverse with this record. I wanted to experiment more. I wanted to create new sounds and new emotions.”

Recorded at his studio in south-east London, ‘Persona’ benefits from Ryan’s exploration of a dynamic production process that combines analogue-heavy synthesisers, acoustic and electric instruments with a shoegaze-level obsession with effect pedals. A greater depth of emotion and confidence can be heard across the album. From the deconstructed movements on ‘Unfolding’ that starts the album with a snap of delayed snares, the apocalyptic drones of the title track and thundering drums in ‘Phantom Grip’ to more  restrained ambient feels of ‘Dreamer’s Wake’, ‘Rest’ and ‘Untravel’. The latter transverses six beatless minutes of undulating melodies representing “a limbo space, a feeling of ennui, of not really ever being known to others and others not ever really being known to you”.

'Be Kind' reveals a musical connection with fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm, with its minimal approach and improvisational nature. On the more complex sounding ‘I Think So’ Ryan aims to replicate a colour collage with sound. Like a musical kaleidoscope, a flashing and convoluted mass. Written after he saw Slowdive perform live last year, ‘Hidden’ builds from whispers to landscapes of controlled noise. In an interview with XLR8R magazine, Ryan explains: “once you start trying to make a sound loud, then you turn your back on thousands and thousands of sonic possibilities. One of the best things to do is to start a track with a really quiet, weak sound.” Taking this idea to its ultimate conclusion, ‘Fragment’ closes the album as an innocent sounding ambient piece, almost nursery rhyme like, yielding time for reflection on how the persona has changed.

'Persona' follows the success of a series of releases — the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Sonne’ EPs, long player ‘Howl’, and 2016’s mini album ‘Night Melody’ — that saw Ryan mature into what Pitchfork has called a “forward-thinking electronic musician with his own ideas about sound”. Atypical of instrumental-electronic music, Ryan has achieved a signature sound that’s unmistakably identifiable as Rival Consoles. Going beyond typical electronic music production, Ryan defines it as “songwriting with an electronic palette of sounds”.

The increasingly dynamic live audio-visual show, born from bespoke performances at the Tate and for Boiler Room at the V&A Museum featuring self-programmed visuals in Max/MSP, has propelled him to play around the world. Ryan launches ‘Persona’ at London’s XOYO on 12th April with further dates to be announced.

Persona

Unfolding

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Rival Consoles - Unfolding

American-born multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer Peter Broderick will release a new extended player titled Two Balloons on November 9th with Erased Tapes. Available as a limited edition 10” vinyl and digital download, it features the score for the award-winning animation of the same name, inspired by an early recording of his, plus a 9-minute electronic rework on the B-side titled Techno For Lemurs.

Fairly often we see albums of “Music inspired by the film __”, but less common is a film inspired by music. Such is the case with Two Balloons. Director Mark C. Smith got the idea for his nine-minute stop frame animation film while out at sea, looking at a majestic funnel cloud in the distance. Shortly after he heard a song by Peter Broderick from one of his earliest recordings — 4 Track Songs — and the music struck a chord so strongly, he knew he wanted to make a film to fit the melody. And so began the five-year labour of love that would eventually produce this enchanting little film, currently circulating film festivals around the world and racking up countless awards and accolades including ‘Best Original Music Score’ at the New Renaissance Film Festival in Amsterdam.

The B-side is more than just a remix that recycles the original recordings. In fact none of the original parts have been re-used. ‘Techno For Lemurs’ is a homage to the two main characters in the story, the ring-tailed lemurs Bernard and Elba. Serving as Broderick’s first foray into the world of techno, this playful piece reinterprets the melodic themes from the original score by adapting them with electronic instrumentation. In Peter’s own words: “Let’s pretend for nine minutes that we’re ring-tailed lemurs and get this party started!” 

Peter is currently on tour around Europe:

 2018
17.10. Lausanne (CH) — Le Bourg  
18.10. Lugano (CH) — FOCE 
17.11. Cobh (IE) — Sirius Arts Centre (One Hear Now)
15.12. Pattaya (TH) — Wonderfruit Festival 
30.03. Mechelen (BE) — Cultuurcentrum

Pre-order Two Balloons: https://www.erasedtapes.com/release/eratp115-peter-broderick-two-balloons

Two Balloons

Techno For Lemurs

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Peter Broderick - Techno For Lemurs

David Allred shares new song The Mirror of Time from his debut album with Erased Tapes titled The Transition — out November 2. 

Featuring Peter Broderick on strings, the new single is a contemplative ballad that finds David reflecting on his life and the inevitability of time passing.

Hailing from Loomis, a small town outside of Sacramento, via Portland, Oregon – David worked as a sound engineer and session musician, featuring on multiple recordings by the likes of Birger Olsen, Brigid Mae Power, Brumes, The Beacon Sound Choir, Chantal Acda, Heather Woods Broderick, Jung Body, Masayoshi Fujita, and many more. He quickly found himself touring Europe with Peter Broderick, following last year's collaborative release Find The Ways, and contributing the arresting voice and double bass piece Ahoy to the Erased Tapes 10th anniversary box set 1+1=X; only to return to where he started, Loomis, and finally write and record The Transition as his first full-length statement in just one month.

With the release of The Transition, David Allred takes his place among the classic American songwriting tradition whilst revealing a peculiarity to his storytelling. Isolated and cut off from the outside world, David began unravelling his life and putting it on record. With a double bass in his bedroom and a piano in a church across the street, the stories started to unfold until a set of ten songs came to life. Vignettes and feelings from his own experiences, as well as characters he met along the way, inspired a rich tapestry of stories and melodies.

Winter will hopefully see David return to European shores in support of The Transition. Until then, this full length released November 2nd is the closest we can get to the curious mind of David Allred.

· pre-order The Transition on LP/CD/DL: https://www.erasedtapes.com/release/eratp114-david-allred-the-transition

The Transition

The Mirror Of Time

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David Allred - The Mirror Of Time

Taken from the album 'New Day At Dusk' (2013) available on CD and download at http://kidkin.bandcamp.com/album/new-day-at-dusk

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You And Me And The Devil Makes Three

I'm proud to have contributed a song to the new Cities and Memory project 'Three Words' - using the power of words from what3words to remix the sounds of the world! http://citiesandmemory.com/three-words
Download the full album for free at: https://citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/three-words

Cities and Memory is a global field recording & sound art work that presents both the present reality of a place, but also its imagined, alternative counterpart – remixing the world, one sound at at time.

Three Words

Tuscany

Single featuring The Bobo released 30th December 2019.
Available on all digital platforms
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5od5urN4RXulxCVIpvJhdq?si=0bMunAojQESMtrUYDx3oXQ
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sprinter-Last-feat-Kid-Kin/dp/B082VJLGSN/
Apple: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/sprinter-at-last-feat-kid-kin-single/1491788575
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ofBiIFiNSc

Sprinter (At Last) (ft. The Bobo)

Diving Board

Welcome to Calm Wave

A selection of sounds new and old with calming properties
Presented by Ben Forrester

Episode 1 - 16/07/2020

Tracklist:
William Cashion - Lightning Bug (Postcard Music LP)
Oceansize - Legal Teens (Home & Minor EP)
Pet Shimmers - Duvet Day (Face Down In Meta LP)
Orlando Weeks - Milk Breath (A Quickening LP)
Baxter Dury - Saliva Hog (Night Chancers LP)
Muzz - Bad Feeling (Muzz LP)
Duster - Cooking (Contemporary Movement LP)
Modern Rituals - Thick Wall (Single)
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher (Punisher LP)
Worriedaboutsatan - Mirrors (Crystalline LP) 
Everything Everything - In Birdsong (Re-Animator LP)
The Dears - Ticket To Immortality (Gang Of Losers LP)
All Partial - Motion Picture Soundtrack (Single)

Episode 1

'Control' is the new single by KID KIN out 29th April 2021.
Lyrics by THE BOBO

Produced by Kid Kin. Mastered by Turan Audio

Check out the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yu8UxDsiR0
Directed by Ash Cooke | Produced by Lizzie Couves

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Don't wait for it all
No one will come and fix it all up
Waiting you'll waste it all
Waiting don't waste it all

You don't need to belong
Grab my hand and we will be okay

Empty Space
Don't be afraid
Feel your heart beating
And know you'll be alright

You don't need to belong
Grab my hand and we will be okay

Don't wait for it all
No one will come and fix it all up
Waiting you'll waste it all
Waiting don't waste it all

Control (feat. The Bobo)

DISCOMPOSE EP OUT NOW http://hyperurl.co/discompose

Kid Kin is the moniker of producer Peter Lloyd from Oxford, England. In 2020 he collaborated with The Bobo to release the single "Sprinter (At Last)" which made the BBC Introducing Hot List. On 29th April 2021 they followed it up with their new single "Control".

Kid Kin's latest single - Under A Cloud Of Fret - released on in May 2021, followed by the Discompose EP in June 2021.

Kid Kin has toured the UK and supported luminaries such as Ulrich Schnauss, Public Service Broadcasting, and Haiku Salut.

Contact: info@kidkinmusic.com

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