"Rebell-Diamanten / d Küste" is the first music produced by Nashville based recording artist and songwriter, Adam Reid. The culmination of a childhood spent in privilege and in hiding, this album represents the years during which Adam was starting to become themselves. Its themes of existentialism, acknowledgment and questioning of physical reality, empathy & worry, capitalism, social anxiety, and romanticism are grounded in their queer, teenage experience.

Growing up in Birmingham, AL, Adam attended a Christian school for most of their life. Needless to say, queer role-models were few and far between. It wasn't until their friend Trevelyn Grace Campbell introduced them to the band Discovery that their 10 years of piano lessons began to show purpose. While Adam had written a few songs, they had never been shown a masterpiece of digitally produced queer pop. This discovery led to the search for a synthesizer, and they eventually found the KORG R3.

This synth, along with their BOSS RC-30 Loop Station & Presonus StudioOne starter kit, started them on their journey of self-education in the subject of digital recording and sample-based composition and production. "Rebell-Diamanten / d Küste" represents the most completed work from this era.

Originally released as an abridged EP in 2013 to a small audience of family and friends, RD/dK has been newly mastered and formatted to its intended form. Though this will mark Zwil AR's fifth solo release with their label Banana Tapes, it truly marks the beginning of their musical career - a revealing predecessor to their first LP, "Gegenseitig Ausschließen."

Rebell​-​Diamanten / d Küste