#kaleidonauts

KALEIDONAUTS - Tigermouse

Immediately after the release of 'Spaniard' and inspired by the success of collaborating on tracks like 'Roll It Up' and 'For A Girl...', Warchalking and I began writing a record together. Throughout the summer of 2008 we traded mp3s and ideas and quickly amassed a collection of songs under the working title 'ww'. With Jane Gilmore singing backing vocals on three of the songs, it began to feel like an extension of the previous project, and everyone involved agreed that it should be a second Kaleidonauts record.

Warchalking made this one of the most enjoyable collaborations I've been involved in - the interchange of ideas and energy for the songs made it easy from beginning to end. The songwriting was pretty much 50/50 with us revising lyrics on each other's melodies and helping shape each song, to a point where everything you hear features some creative element from either of us. The finished record is a multi-layered acoustic pop adventure with some of my best song ideas. Whereas 'Spaniard' has moments that won't get any better, its counterpart released in September 2008 for free on Quixodelic Records is a more consistent record that I'm happy to play from start to finish.

You can download 'Tigermouse' for free here:

KALEIDONAUTS - I Do Not Currently Own A Spaniard (Mine Died)

Throughout the winter of 2007 and spring of 2008 Jon of the Atom and I wrote and recorded Spaniard. We'd collaborated on several tracks during 2007 (Caroline, Thank My Stars, Moths At The Bug Zapper, Roll It Up, Suspended Animation) and had talked about making them into an EP. Then in November I wrote and recorded a bunch of songs in seven hours imaginatively titled '7 Hours'. I sent them to Jon to see what he thought of them and he asked for the individual tracks so as he could add to them. He drafted in Jane Gilmore and Katie Saul to sing harmonies, and Tim Kotch to play trumpet. I wrote another couple of songs for Jane to sing (The Idiot Crying, Marvin The Mollusk), and Warchalking added parts to Roll It Up and For A Girl I Never Kissed. I Do Not Currently Own A Spaniard (Mine Died) was released in April 2008 and is generally considered to be one of the best things I've done. This is almost 100% to do with Jon's production on the record, taking my crappy mp3s and pulling them into shape.

You can download 'Spaniard' for free from Quixodelic Records at:

KALEIDONAUTS

Collaboration project I started with Jon of the Atom in the winter of 2007 and continued with Warchalking in 2008. We released two records - I Do Not Currently Own A Spaniard (Mine Died) and Tigermouse in April and September 2008. Having tried (and failed) to organize a Daydream Collective recording project, this was as close as it would come. Spaniard featured myself, JOTA, Jane Gilmore, Katie Saul, Warchalking, Tim Kotch, Meghan Geiss, Wind-Powered Rebekah, and Tigermouse featured myself, Warchalking, and Jane Gilmore.

Find out more about Kaleidonauts here:

Song To You by Becky N