Browse by Artist: CAPITOL K

Artist:	CAPITOL K
Title:	Happy Happy
Label:	FAITH AND INDUSTRY (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	FAI 004CD

"Happy Happy, the latest album release from Capitol K -- and the first for his own independent label Faith and Industry -- is the follow-up to 2002's Island Row (XL/Planet Mu). It's the most fully realized of Capitol K's recordings to date: a homemade, kaleidoscopic hybrid of precision electronics rendered boldly and beautifully live by an eclectic four-piece band; personal twists with a global perspective and psychedelic excursions interrupted by impromptu all-night parties in the parts of the city you can only reach by bike. Kristian Craig Robinsons first two albums as Capitol K, Sounds of the Empire (Planet Mu) and Island Row (Planet Mu/XL), secured his reputation as a cutting-edge studio producer melding innovative sampling and electronics with rock dynamics and a pop spirit."

Artist:	CAPITOL K
Title:	Nomad Junk
Label:	FAITH AND INDUSTRY (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FAI 005CD

"Kristian Robinson, aka the maverick musician and producer Capitol K provides another wonderful culturally diverse opus with his fourth studio album Nomad Junk. The album is a post-modern journey of playful and melodic pop juxtaposed with a global urban environment backdrop, as Tokyo, Taipei, Barcelona, London and Hong Kong all provide a heady brew of original found sound footage. Featuring a bounty of addictive hooks and melodies you can listen to or shake a leg at, Nomad Junk is an accomplished album from an artist with pedigree, and follows his previous albums Sounds Of The Empire (Planet Mu), Island Row (XL), and most recently Happy Happy (Faith & Industry). Capitol K's mixture of lo-fi rock, electronica, Asian-pop, field samples and Arabian melodies produces a dramatic collage of East meets West with a global magpie's eye."

Artist:	CAPITOL K
Title:	Notes From Life On The Wire With a Wrecking Ball
Label:	FAITH AND INDUSTRY (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	FAI 007CD

"Kristian Craig Robinson AKA Capitol K is on a quest to find a utopia within sound and with Notes from Life on the Wire with a Wrecking Ball, his 5th album, he may just have found it. There are few other artists who can make the experimental sound quite so engaging. Notes from Life on the Wire with a Wrecking Ball is a record born out of creative London, but Capitol K is by no means your usual citizen. Recent years he has spent much of his time living in squats and places soon to be demolished with other artisans. Ideas around the act of detournement (deviation of course), psycho geographic wandering, Utopian fantasy and outsider writings strongly influence this album. As Capitol K says, 'Seeing how artisans have reacted to social economic alienation, and managed existence alongside and in spite of rapid consumerist, homogenization, which is particular rampant in London, I became increasingly aware of the maximization of culture going on, maximum house, maximum color, maximum impact, so in turn I wanted to create a subvert maximum music for a maximum world.' Recordings were performed in a lo-fi studio set up in a squat on Drum St, alongside highly skilled Italian Jazz Drummer Vladimiro Carboni and Brazilian guitarist Felipe Pagani, whom he met while playing electronics for Tropicalist act Cibelle touring the world in 2006, they had little previous knowledge of the Capitol K unique sound, or electronica in general. This sums up his vision of combining cultures of the world, as K puts, 'I wanted their influence of real skill and strictness within the shaping of this album, to act as a balance to my lo-fi London Flaneur approach.' It is also true that this album is a love story, unless you are autistic in which case it's about mechanics."

Artist:	CAPITOL K
Title:	Pillow
Label:	XL RECORDINGS/SOURCE/VIRGIN (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$5.00
Catalog #:	XL 138CD

2002 CDEP, last copies, reduced price. "The man behind the Capitol K moniker. Kristian Craig Robinson, after two warmly-received and limited edition vinyl releases on XL last year, is finally ready for his full assault on the mainstream with his new single, 'Pillow'. It's a work of cut-up and off-kilter pop genius, and is suitably accompanied by remixes from fellow leftfield artistes, Wagon Christ and Leafcutter John. As an added bonus, the full vocal mix of album track, 'Capitol Beat Sticky', is included on the vinyl release, having only previously been available on The Cosmic Forces Of Mu compilation double CD on Planet Mu."

Previous Page Index of Artists Next Page