Kingfisher Bluez

It’s ten in the morning and Spencer and myself are heading home after another long night tweaking the Eek! mixes. Everything sounds good and I think the mixes are all finished. Our tummies hurt a bit from eating a package of oreos and drinking a 1 litre energy drink but we are feeling quite chipper regardless. After being tired all night, it’s only when you are going to sleep of course that you get your second wind. Looking forward to releasing these songs, hopefully on vinyl, sometime later this year!

Take care,

-Tim

Hello All Music Lovers and Lovers of Musicians,

Tim and I are here at FaderMaster Studios finishing up the Eeek! album. It’s 5 am and we’re slowly going over our work and checking it twice. This project is shaping up to be an amazing product of 21st century musical genius. I, by the way, am Spencer D Carson the Kingfisher Bluez resident engineer/producer. This is my first post here, so I guess I should make it a good one! Tonight we’ve mixed 3 songs and added wicked percussion to one, that will blow your multi-rhythmic part of your brain away.  Well I better get back to help Tim with some gang vocal mixing! If you want to learn more about FaderMaster Studios here’s the link to the website: http://www.fadermaster.com

Peace

- Spencer

***Update***

9am and we’re off to go sleep. I officially hate guitars! Not really but one gave me “analysis paralysis” and Tim thought I died. So I’m going to sleep for a while and then off to go ice skating. Hopefully I can then listen to the songs and critique them after falling on my ass a billion times.

It is closing in on 9am now, Spencer and myself are wrapping up at the studio after mixing all night. We are both unbelievably tired but very proud of our work! The songs sound fantastic and we can’t wait to unleash them upon the world. I am on the studio computer so I can’t post a picture or anything but you wouldn’t want to see us now anyways. Going home for naps good evening/morning to you!

-Tim

Julian Bowers’ And Don’t The Kids Just Loathe It shines a spotlight on Eek! in the studio this week. Julian asks the boys of Eek! five questions. We’re done tracking now and I’m on my way to the studio to mix this sucker!

-Tim

In the immortal words of Charles Dickens, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of time…” This can also be said about our recording here at Reise’s home studio. A catastrophic blizzard has forced us to barracade the doors and feast on the remains of the once Nameless Intern, now referred to as “Dinner”. Although it has been a struggle to maintain enough energy to play our insturments we muster the courage to press on, in hopes of one day emerging from our icy prison to live again. We often think fondly of the victims of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, coping with a winter alien invasion would not be far off from our experience here. In the muted distance of a coal-warmed basement I can hear Brady softly strumming a guitar accompanied by the dedicative shouts of Tim barking his artistic vision like a starving composer grasping for his opus. If anyone is reading this please send a team of sled dogs and a dozen kerosene lamps, its going to be a long night.

-co(bra)lin

I’ve just got in from our first day in the studio with Eek! working on their new LP which is as-yet-untitled. I am producing it and Spencer is engineering, so you know we’re taking care of business and basically making every other producer/engineer team look super lame. Today we tracked three songs and did the vocals for one. Very productive, considering we were only there for a few hours. More updates coming, including a few of Julian’s famous studio-update videos! Stay tuned.

-Tim

P.S. We were all saddened to hear of J.D. Salinger’s passing yesterday. As with everyone else ever, I was profoundly moved by Catcher In The Rye when I first read it, and it has remained a constant companion ever since.

The new Shiny Diamonds album, “A Histriony Of Violence” is being mastered this week by Kramer, a renown madman of odd music and godfather of slowcore, showgaze, and anti-folk.  If you don’t know what mastering is, well we can’t explain it. It’s a necessary step in record production that involves black magic. Here are some records Kramer has produced:

wow!

Our friends Gold and Shadow just did a session with Naked Jams, a website focusing on local acts playing stripped down sets shot in HD with quality sound. Boy, does it ever look good! We’re talking to Tash of NakedJams.com about the possibility of recording some more KFB bands in 2010!

Here is the link! LINK LINK LINK

Gold and Shadow’s song “On Pym Street” is on the Kingfisher Bluez Compilation “No Revival vol. 1″!

Also, Polyvinyl Records has a free sampler for download!

POLYVINYL SAMPLER

Download code is “MATH”

Our new song “1987″ is now streaming on our myspace page! This is the first track off of our new album “A Histriony Of Violence”. It was produced by Jamie Stewart and engineered and prepared for myspace by Spencer “Badonkadonk” Carson. The version on the album will be a proper master, which is why we haven’t made it available for download yet. We had to put something up though, we are so excited to get this album out to you!

Click here to hear “1987″!

Thanks so much for everything!

-Tim, Calen, Miles, and Quinn

Also we’re very sorry to hear that Jay Reatard died early this morning, apparently “in his sleep” at 29 years of age. [Pitchfork reports]. I saw him play a couple months ago and he rocked very hard. Rest in peace, Jay.

Update: Teddy Pendergrass has died, which is also very sad. Sorry to see so many great artists go this year.

I’d like to welcome Cottage Days and Button Fields to our internet home. I still have to take some photos for the site *cough cough* Julian *cough*. All of us at Kingfisher Bluez are really looking forward to working on some projects with these guys. Cottage Days is Colin from Eek! and of course Button Fields is the Kingfisher Bluez house band (feat. Pretty Eyes For Captain America on guitar!). I’ll keep you very up to date with info on the upcoming KFB releases but let’s just say we’re going to have a very busy year!

On that note, I’d like to take a look back at 2009 and tell you what records I thought were the best. This is my list off of the wall at Scratch Records, I had to narrow it down from a top 50 so it was hard but here it is (I’ve excluded hip-hop (for another list) as well as reissues, compilations and EPs:

The Top Ten Albums Of 2009

by Tim the mute

In no order:

Morrissey- Years Of Refusal

Pains Of Being Pure At Heart- S/T

Atlas Sound- Logos

Antony and the Johnsons- The Crying Light

Sonic Youth- The Eternal

Manic Street Preachers- Journal For Plague Lovers

Passion Pit- Manners

The xx- S/T

Girls- Album

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs- It’s Blitz!

And there it was.

So sorry to: The Swell Season, Kurt Vile, Camera Obscura, Bear In Heaven, Cymbals Eat Guitars, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Real Estate, Phoenix, Flaming Lips and Japandroids who all made great albums too!