Kettle of Kites
+ Dave Frazer + Fat Mantra
Entry Requirements: 18+
Kettle of Kites is an indie art rock band. It’s a soaring crescendo and then a simple folk melody. It’s a vast wide open space and then an intimate living room – a geometric maze to find your way through.
Their debut album Loan was formed through humble means – recorded in a dingy, sweaty Italian basement by Scottish frontman/songwriter Tom Stearn and then sent half way across the world to A Pocket Full Of Stones studio in Australia to be mixed. Embarking on the launch of their new sci-fi inspired studio album Arrows, the band’s somewhat dispersed members (Pietro Martinelli, bass – Genoa // Marco Giongrandi, guitar – Brussels // Riccardo Chiaberta, drums – London) combine their unique experience in their respective music scenes to sculpt new worlds, new images, new stories.
Their soon to be released second album Arrows is inspired by the sci-fi world of the author Isaac Asimov – Sumptuous Fleet Foxes- esque sunsets, roaring Grizzly Bear reverbs and cyclic classical guitar lines, with an undercurrent of minimal electronic drums and synth reminiscent of Radiohead.
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Kettle of Kites
From the land of the long white cloud and now firmly entrenched in the bleak contrast of Glasgow - Dave Frazer's music is both optimistic and depressing. A nostalgic spirit, his unique and slack baritone voice resonates over ambient guitar drones. An intimate and beguiling performer he uses simplicity and repetition in his music which undulates sweetly like an abandoned ship on an endless sea of nothing.
