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written March 9th, 2010
hello there- well, today finds me writing in FOA and awaiting mixes from dPulse land as well as from Birmingham England…we are getting closer to a finish line for Cotes d’ Armor…..what i can tell you for sure is that it promises to be a mental trip down the rabbit hole or worm hole of modern music…..we have layered snippets of spoken word with electronic noise from both 3kStatic and PWEI…..several tracks are PWEI remixes of Crashing Gates tunes with 3 brand new cuts featuring Lyntt production (Tedd T and Lynn Nichols)- the tracklist goes something like this *(subject to change)….
On Yer Bike!- new tune about road tripping
Out of the Wild- remix by PWEI
Traveler- remix by PWEI
Unholy Triad- new tune about romance and apocalypse
Saint of Lonely Hearts-remix by PWEI
Future Love Song- remix by PWEI
Wild Spook Track- remix by PWEI
Walking Through Walls (just to get to you)- new tune
Beautiful Mind- remix by 3kStatic
Unholy Triad- remix by PWEI and 3kStatic
Cotes d’ Armor- original poem
Out of the Wild part deux- remix by Knapsack Heroes
etc etc…
plus, all songs remixed again by 3kStatic in alternate forms.
Anne Rice, My Heroine.
written March 4th, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LGzVKTgyDA&feature=related
A contemporary rendering of Lady Antebellum’s hit ‘I need you now’
written March 3rd, 2010
Papa John’s boxes scattered all around the floor
Reachin for the phone cause I can’t find the remote
And I wonder if I you just ignored my text
as your on the town for another girls night out
It’s a quarter after one, there’s laundry in the hall and I need you now
Said I wouldn’t call but I really can’t find that damn remote and i need you now
And I forgot how to work the dryer -I just need you now
Another shot of whiskey can’t stop looking at the door
Wish you could sweep the chunks that i blew out on the floor
And I wonder if I can mop it up in time
but i got the spins now
It’s a quarter after one, I’m a little drunk and I need you now
i think i called 911 just to have some fun and i need you now
i deleted ‘The Proposal’ in your DVR list
and replaced it with ‘Apocalypse Now’
i got to change my shirt cause it smells like hot sauce
It’s a quarter after one, there’s no more sticky buns and I need you now
And I said I wouldn’t call but I’m a little drunk and I need you now
wait! hold on, i just found the remote …
Its ok, i don’t need you now
I don’t need you now
Ooo, baby, I don’t need you now
Los Angeles- i will see you soon
written February 21st, 2010
They call Los Angeles the City of
Angels. I didn’t find it to be that
exactly, but I’ll allow as there are
some nice folks there. ‘Course, I
can’t say I seen London, and I never
been to France, and I ain’t never
seen no queen in her damn undies as
the fella says. But I’ll tell you
what, after seeing Los Angeles and
thisahere story I’m about to unfold–
wal, I guess I seen somethin’ ever’
bit as stupefyin’ as ya’d see in any
a those other places, and in English
too, so I can die with a smile on my
face without feelin’ like the good
Lord gypped me.
Jesus Wasn’t American- A Poem
written February 19th, 2010
Jim Caviezel listens to 4 Him
got hit by a lightning bolt while posing on the green screen
Willem Dafoe remembers hearing voices
that Nikos Kazantzakis never expected
and they all tried to focus through those eyes
diamond eyes
bullet proof and full of love fever
something Hollywood could never reinvent or
refine out of its stable of willing meat puppets
Jesus Wasn’t American
never was, never will be
and when He Comes Again
will He be standing against a Green Screen background
surrounded by Cherubs and Avatars?
i think it will be more like the silent films
of many years past
naked emotion and fact
nothing pulled back
the impact not retracted
fracturing all perceived images and Temple Walls
Cotes d’Armor Press Release
written February 17th, 2010
Coming Release Is A Ride on the Wild Side
It’s time the tale were told of how the True Rebel became a True Artist.
Kevin Max has been many things to many people, and has never taken the path of least resistance. While his band disintegrated in the year 2000 in front of millions of fans worldwide, he chose instead to embrace the future rather than look back. Since his Adrian Belew -produced debut album Stereotype Be was released in 2001, Kevin Max has been on the path of risk & experimentation.
Forefront Records (the dctalk label home of 15 years) let him go because of ‘irreconcilable differences’ – stating that he was a ‘Francis Schaeffer artist in a Billy Graham world.’ The truth is Max is more like a William Blake in a Billy Graham world. More poetry than lyric, more fantasy interpretations of life than realistic ones, he has taken us on a ride into wild and obscure proportions.
Max himself has stated he never wanted to be a ‘Christian artist….that genre is way too limiting, in fact, it is altogether irrelevant in the big picture, because God is involved in every type of music….even in the ultimate evil inventions.’
He continued his arc of imagination while writing with Warren Cuccurullo (Missing Persons, Frank Zappa, Duran Duran), VanDyke Parks (Beach Boys, Rufus Wainright) Mark Hudson (Ozzy Osbourne).
He cut his teeth performing his next project The Imposter by doing back to back residencies at the infamous Viper Room on the Sunset Strip. During which time he was approached by industry mogul John Kalodner who asked him to join a major arena rock band as the new lead singer, Max turned it down stating artistic differences and an allegiance to breaking The Imposter.
Today he is again breaking rules, constantly touring the globe as a solo artist, appearing in feature films, writing a science fiction novel and now procuring his place within the electronic music world.
dPulse Recordings is proud to announce the combination of labelmates Kevin Max, Pop Will Eat Itself and 3kStatic for the upcoming new Kevin Max release Cotes d’ Armor.
Not pushing boundaries but smashing them, Cotes d’ Armor sees Kevin Max turning to the world of technology-driven music to deliver songs that are at once intensely personal, but also adventurous and groove-riddled.
With new tracks ‘Get On Yer Bike’ and ‘Walking Thru Walls’ produced by Tedd T and Lynn Nichols of Lyntt Productions (Mute Math and many, many others), Cotes d’ Armor has its roots in the 2008 release Crashing Gates, since transformed into a sweeping conceptual statement bridging electronica and rock.
Where Stereotype Be hinted at and Raven Songs 101 embraced art-rock and electronica, Cotes d’Armor sees Kevin Max willing to let his vision speak for itself as he opens yet another chapter in his artistic journey.
While some fans and pundits may prefer the safe ground of the tried and true, Kevin Max has turned his attention on what’s coming up around the bend. And he’s speeding toward it. Cotes d’ Armor will be released as digital and CD double album in Spring 2010.
don’t believe everything you hear about me, especially via the internet
written February 16th, 2010
May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.
Anonymous
To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)
Anonymous
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato the Elder (234 BC – 149 BC)
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
Edward Wallis Hoch (1849 – 1925), Marion (Kansas) Record
Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, ‘Why should I tell it?’
Johann K. Lavater
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
John Tudor
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900), Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892, Act III
Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?
Phocion (402 BC – 318 BC), from Plutarch, Apothegms
No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
Sir Philip Sidney (1554 – 1586)
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers (1879 – 1935)
Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.
Will Rogers (1879 – 1935), ‘Politics Getting Ready to Jell,’ The Illiterate Digest, 1924
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers (1879 – 1935)
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
