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K2 (sometime soon)
(September 2008)
I Do Not Currently Own A Spaniard (Mine Died) (April 2008) Kaleidonauts is a transatlantic recording project that began in January 2007 when Smally from Fifeclub's underground pop fuck-ups The Wheelies hooked up via Cozy Home Records with the legendary Jon of the Atom of Atomic/New Wave Dirt fame to collaborate on a song about an LSD trip with a girl called Caroline. A couple of months later and they were at it again this time creating a song about an old magic bench called "Roll It Up". Inevitably time ticked by and while they were busy making their own albums (see Dead Canaries "Critical Mass: Flying Things vs. Crawling Things", and The Wheelies "Strange Kid In A Daydream"), they often discussed making a collaboration mini-album together. Somewhere in amidst all that album making, Smally teamed up with the mighty Warchalking to add vocals to "Roll It Up" as part of a Daydream Collective recording project that never quite panned out. In December of 2007 he recorded an entire Wheelies album in 7 hours, unimaginatively entitled "7 Hours", but it was "pretty fucking shit", so the best of the songs were turned over to JOTA to see if he could make any sense of them. And so KALEIDONAUTS was born. Between December 07 and March 08 they obsessively set about finishing an album called "I Do Not Currently Own A Spaniard (Mine Died)", enlisting the help of the brilliant Jane Gilmore to sing some of the songs when they couldn't hit the high notes. The formula was simple: Smally wrote and sang the songs in search of a white whale melody, Jon of The Ahab provided the music and production in the eye of the storm, and where there were gaping spaces these were filled by Jane (vox), Warchalking (guitar/vox), Tim Kotch (acrobatic trumpetry) and the equally brilliant Katie Saul (vox). The songs dealt with issues such as communism, smoking, transcending space/time, mental health, climate change, back gardens, daydreaming, LSD, communism again, insects, mollusks, and death. "Spaniard" is available to download for FREE exclusively from the Quixodelic Record Store over at www.daydreamgeneration.com from May 2008. In the immediate aftermath of "Spaniard" (considered at the time to be a one-off project) Smally and Kris (Warchalking) began work on another collaboration record. Initially it was planned as being half-Warchalking, half-Wheelies with each contributing backing vocals to one another's songs. After the relative success of songs like "Roll It Up" and "For A Girl I Never Kissed" on "Spaniard", this new collaboration project quickly spiralled a long way away from the original plan - songs were written and re-written from scratch, lyrics were penned on one side of the Atlantic and revised on the other, and a throughout the summer of 2008 a blizzard of mp3s have flew back and forth finally forming something that they latterly recognised was a continuation and fitting follow-up to the first Kaleidonauts record. For many reasons I won't bore you with here, the record was called "Tigermouse" and once again they enlisted the help of Jane Gilmore to sing on a couple of songs. "Tigermouse" is also available to download for FREE from www.daydreamgeneration.com.
There are of course rumours of a third and final Kaleidonauts record called "K2", some people speculating that it is an out-take album comprising of cut songs from "Spaniard" and "Tigermouse", and alternative takes, and others believing that this record will feature new collaboration tracks. Only time will tell whether either of these rumours are true. KALEIDONAUTS on MySpace - www.myspace.com/kaleidonauts Kaleidonauts Are: Jon of the Atom - www.myspace.com/deadcanaries Warchalking - www.myspace.com/warchalking Jane Gilmore - www.myspace.com/janegilmore Smally Tim Kotch - www.myspace.com/thehoborchestra Meghan Geiss - www.myspace.com/meghangeiss Katie Saul Wind-Powered Rebekah Dylan from The Pirate Pipsqueak Band Phillip & Louis |
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