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Things to Note about Kinsmen of the Sun (warm up jam)
The cool thing about this warm up jam is you can hear Robbi forcing a limitation on his guitar playing. He is doing this because he is in the comfort of his own home studio, with his favorite friends and musicians surrounding him and because he never thought for one minute that the recording of this jam would be released for the public's ears. So he enters in, playing upon a practice called “Intervallic Training”. While Jorge, Greg and Kripa hold down a solid tribal groove, Robbi tries to make sense from this very technical musical exercise, while keeping it different from the glassy sharp industrial way King Crimson use bouncing intervals, he brings it into a more fluidic airy nature. For a long time this piece earned the name Crimson Cream, because of this fusion of Cream style rock jams and King Crimson style discipline. (‘scuse the pun)
The Interval:
An interval is a space between two things; a gap.
And also the difference in pitch between two musical sounds.
You will notice that the first guitar motif right from the get go begins by slurring through a few dark intervals while Jorge’s bass guitar bounces on and off the tonic root with intervals a minor 3rd and a 4th apart. Then a second guitar motif based on intervals a 5th apart begins leaping and bouncing around the tonic note like a mad laughing child running around its parent, enjoying the feeling of getting dizzy. Shortly after that, the guitar starts teasing the full scale by bouncing slowly through intervals 3rds, 5ths and 6ths apart with slow and beautifully timed delays. All throughout the piece you will hear these intervallic ornaments decorating the guitar. There are moments of cascading and descending 3rds rolling down down down through the scale that work just beautifully with long delays slightly out of time to the beat to create an organic feel like water running down a pebbled stream. There are darker, more strenuous moments when the guitar crawls up the scale in large intervals like a solo mountaineer scaling a rock face with no ropes to protect him from falling, only intuition and feeling - all the while Kripa is there like the Goddess Maya, of whom it is said, she cannot be seen but only for the light that bounces off her body.
The jam seems to be split into two chapters - The first is a tight groove and disciplined, then the second chapter begins when,Jorge suddenly breaks from the groove and Greg storms out! Off into the night the two go like bickering irish drunkards, troubadours, swordsmen in the cobbled streets of a moonlit wet town full of surprise. There comes a beautiful party later that night where the music lays down with voluptuous harlots and poets and there abides the ghost of Miles Davis.
Guest musician: Gary Barnacle - Sax.
We are super honored beyond what words could describe to have Gary Barnacle play Sax on this Jam. There is a saying in South Africa an abusive parent might bark at a wild child “i’ll wring your bloody neck!” - well Gary wrung the bloody neck out of the saxophone. Right from the first note the sax breathes into the music, darting around like a rat in the dark chambers of an abandoned castle. Latching onto the guitar part to hide behind, to complement, to shelter and to expand the tonality. At the peak of the song the sax comes crawling out as if over gravel and broken glass and suddenly takes flight! As the Bass guitar and drums lock into a tight groove for the first time - ( “the most expensive backing band” says Robb and laughs) Gary Teases - up a little - a little more - tumbling back down, dungeons and dragons, snakes and ladders, and then scrambling up again till finally like a Hawk that just learned to fly lifts up into the deep blue, screaming in unbearable ecstasy!! - Gary Barnacle’s resume is basically the who’s who in the history of rock music - playing with everyone from the Clash to Bowie the list is ridiculous!! Thank you Gary!! You wrung it good! Eternally Grateful.
And that’s that and that's that!
Till next Bandcamp Friday
Shine on!
lyrics
he had fallen
from the sky,
Not passing through the
portal of birth.
Having cultivated virtue
for countless eons,
he was born
fully conscious,
without any confusion.
When in due course he issued from the womb,
his light shone everywhere.
immovable in the truth,
his brightness was quite majestic
just like the sun outshining the light of a lamp.
a true gold
shining all around.
credits
released April 2, 2021
Robbi Robb - Guitar
Amritakripa - Synths
Jorge Bassman Carrillo - Bass Guitar
Greg Corcione - Drums
Gary Barnacle - Sax
Rehearsal recording at Star Lane Studios , Joshua Tree.
Mixed by Robbi
Mastered by Mark Fuller.
Specialists at blending elements of psychedelic and space rock along with touches of prog, krautrock, and World music. The music shows more of a passion for exploration than a respect for boundaries.
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Great album, nice packaging, but still a bit boring. The music sometimes gets lost too much in endless repetitions of short sequences. Hardly any change. A little more complexity and sophistication would be desirable. HansPeter Muff
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