a r t i s t : Kevin Blechdom
t i t l e : Gentlemania
d a t e : 2009
l a b e l : Sonig
g e n r e : Indie
r l s. d a t e : Feb/2009
t r a c k s : 10
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 35,9 MB
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Kevin Blechdom is a female originally named Kristin Erickson
when she was born in Florida in 1978. With a laptop, self-made
computer music programs, piano chops, a 5-string banjo,
Blechdom sings from from the heart.
Kevin BlechdomÆs newest solo album, GENTLEMANIA, is being
released on sonig. Expected in March 2009, the album is an
acoustic pop record co-produced by Kevin and Mocky in Berlin.
Initially trained as a classical pianist and composer, Kevin
was always looking for new musical structures and patterns.
She began recording music with her brother and sister-in-law
in an experimental rock band called ADULT RODEO about ten
years ago, releasing two albums on the revered Shimmy Disc
label and more records on the Adult Rodeo imprint, Four States
Fair Records. Later she hooked up with Blevin Blectum (Bevin
Kelley) and formed BLECTUM FROM BLECHDOM after an accidental
collaboration one Halloween night while they were at Mills
College in Oakland, California. The duo went on to release
music on labels like Tigerbeat6 and Deluxe. ôThe Messy Jesse
Fiestaö won 2nd prize at the prestigious Ars Electronica for
digital music in 2001, and soon after broke up. Blectum from
Blechdom was a hyperactive computer and sampler duo priding
itself with its own digital confusion, frenetic madness, and
psychotic delusions. In 2006 Blectum from Blechdom reuinited
by pie-ing each other in the face, and have since been
recording and touring together.
After Blectum From Blechdom broke up, Kristin kept her team
name Kevin Blechdom and relocated herself to Berlin for five
years. She wrote and produced two albums for the Chicks on
Speed label: BITCHES WITHOUT BRITCHES (2003) and EAT MY HEART
OUT (2005). The albums are a mishmash of styles and production
techniques. From Broadway musical to General MIDI rock opera
to electro-smudge to aleatoric blatherings, her albums put a
bizarre spin on what pop music can be for an era of attention
span deficit.
For the past ten years, Kevin has been touring around the
world playing live shows and collaborating. She has worked
with artists such as Eugene Chadbourne, Fred Frith, Jad Fair,
Kramer, Jamie Lidell, Kid606, Dat Politics, Mocky, John
Bischoff, Chris Brown, Zeena Parkins, Cristian Vogel, Safety
Scissors, Heidi Mortenson, the Organ Lady, Lumberob, Ching
Chong Song, Irene Moon, Myrobotfriend, Charlie Engstrom,
Christopher Fleeger, Chicks on Speed, Kim Hiorthoy, Andre
Vida, Max Tundra, and Planningtorock. She has played shows in
Brazil, Australia, Israel, Moscow, and across Europe and the
United States.
Currently, she is living in Tallahassee, Florida and writing
her thesis paper in order to complete her M.F.A. degree in
Electronic and Computer Music Composition at Mills College.
Her final project for school was writing a forty minute opera
called Recantata, which musically retold the story about her
preschool teachers who were wrongfully put imprisoned for
satanic ritual abuse because of the misguidance of some
child-hypnotizing psychologists. For the last year, and to
support her upcoming release, Blechdom will be touring as a
duo in her hi-tech country and ragtime band with Christopher
Fleeger called Barnwave. Kevin produced the self-released
Ching Chong Song album, LITTLE NAKED GAY ADVENTURE and has
started working on their next release.
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01-Gravity [03:20]
02-Lazy [02:43]
03-Monster [02:34]
04-Running Away [03:43]
05-I Thought I Knew You [03:28]
06-Face The Music [03:47]
07-Turn Around [02:43]
08-It's All Been Done Before [03:09]
09-Tell Me Where It Hurts [03:24]
10-You Changed My Life [02:49]
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