Browse by Artist: RED KRAYOLA, THE

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	Malefactor, Ade
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 045CD

"Malefactor, Ade brings us to the third (and most recent) phase of Red Krayola history. It harks us back to the Germany of the late 1980s. The material on this release was written by Albert Oehlen and Mayo Thompson, with contributions from Werner Büttner, Andreas Dorau and Rüdiger Carl. These songs were laid down 'fast' over two days in Hamburg and finished in England where the then-Rough-Trade-executive Thompson was producing Primal Scream. The idea of things overlapping each other was raised to a principle in this period, and the strategies employed to realize this principle are still coming to fruition on the most recent Red Krayola release, Fingerpainting. We think."

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	Live 1967
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	DC 092CD

Live recordings of the original Red Crayola, from the Angry Arts Festival (6/29/67) and the Berkeley Folk Music Festival (6/67), including guest John Fahey on one track. In the style of Drag City's other archival resurrection, Coconut Hotel, this represents the The Red Crayola at their most way-out. "Despite penning a couple of classics of psychedelia on their first LP ('Hurricane Fighter Plane' and 'Transparent Radiation'), the band showed up at the Berkeley Folk Music Festival in the summer of 1967 with a markedly different approach to ensemble playing. Taking off from the concept of a 'free-form Freak Out', The Red Crayola leaned towards avant-garde approaches. Playing feedback-pieces, sound-as-music, time- and no-time pieces, compressions and motions, one-second pieces, music within music, unhearable music and so on. At the Berkeley Folk Music Festival they met John Fahey, master of the indexes and finger picked guitar. He sat in on their set there. Also included in this mind-melting collection of feedback drones, improvisation and unhearable music are recordings made in their Venice hotel room after their concert there. These pieces represent the 'unplugged' Crayola approach to their unconventional dictum, as well as their serious attitude towards this often lighthearted, intellectual-physical genre."

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	Hazel
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DC 098CD

"Throughout the 16 tracks on Hazel, the group vibe is in full effect...a relaxed, varied LP, the latest in form and content; language and music, art and culture; featuring as many of the above as possible on one record. Drawing on the collective mind that have participated in the 90s Krayola throughout the last 3 years (David Grubbs, Jim O'Rourke, John McEntire, Tom Watson, Stephan Prina, George Hurley) and adding a new voice (Mary Lass Stewart), Hazel realizes the musical socialism that Mayo Thompson and his various Red Krayolai have historically hunted for since the mid 1960s. Recalling the diversity of 1968's God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It, Hazel also brings to mind the pop music of Kangaroo?(1981), and of course the slinky rhythms of most recent Krayola excursion Armour and Language (1995)."

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	Fingerpainting
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	DC 156CD

"Now we have The Red Krayola's state-of-the-states address 1999, presented to one and all in grand Red Krayola style, going all the way back to the days when they spelled it with a C instead of a K (c. 1967). Back then, the world was hearing it's first of this now legendary outfit. Having never tried to do anything the same twice, The Red Krayola, manage in a way not to again on Fingerpainting, although this time, in a way, they tried. Fingerpainting features unreleased songs from the distant days of 1966. The 90s Red Krayola shuffles these ancient pre-Arable Red Crayola songs with the sounds of neo-freakouts, live on the world's stage -- free, familiar, ugly, for a whole bunch of new generations. Fingerpainting features both the latter day Krayola and the original Red Crayola, from thirty years back, bringing it all full circle. And thus allowing another circle to be formed as soon as possible."

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	Japan in Paris in LA
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 171CD

"The Yonemoto brothers 1997 film, Japan In Paris In L.A. tells the story of the painter, Saeki Yuzo -- an authentic bohemian hero lionized in his homeland as the 'Japanese Van Gogh.' The film captures the drama of his plight through a multiplicity of avant-garde visual strategies. They reflect in their form the tragic psychology of the tortured artist. The Red Krayola were engaged to provide appropriate atmosphere for this narrative. At the time, the ever-shifting personnel included David Grubbs, Stephen Prina, Tom Watson, Jim O'Rourke, Mary-Lass Stewart and Mayo Thompson. Japan In Paris In L.A. isn't just soundtrack music, it's also the sound of the rare combination of these individuals. Make it the soundtrack to the drama of your own plight today."

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	Blues, Hollers and Hellos
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	DC 190CD

"The Red Krayola want to contribute. Their new EP continues the tradition of music worthy of the serious attention of busy people. Life continues to travesty everything. Over time, The Red Krayola have expected the worst, yet hoped to be surprised. Some grim satisfaction in science carries on the blues. The Red Krayola weigh in, resulting in what we at Drag City refer to as 'entertainment.' Can blues record an analysis of the position? This is just one question, we understand, that needs no answer Everybody gets everything, right? As the world turns, Blues, Hollers and Hellos, yawns in the open spaces of an old guitar and drums core. Any sense of irony must be your blue hammer. But fall, if you will. Blues, Hollers and Hellos is packaged with a tanned, cool Southern perspective. It delivers its electrical message on a light breeze, leaving the listener plenty of room. To get comfortable, for those of you that worry ? this is a Red Krayola record. Graphic exterior giving lie to what lies within. Which is of course provocative and compelling. Blues, Hollers and Hellos is a six-track record of new music, listen to it. Is impeccable blues an oxymoron?"

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	Singles
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 257CD

"Here's a record you didn't know you were waiting for. Singles is a comprehensive compilation of The Red Krayola singles from 1969-2004, hits and misses. These songs represent The Red Krayola's commitment to the basic carrier, the 7" single. A single point of reference -- the lone song, in an ocean of other songs. Each of these songs were calculated efforts that reflect the time and conditions in which were they released. They are lottery tickets, slots on the wheel, each one a chance. These singles were made for the day they were released. Some of them reached their targets, some are reaching the targets only today and only because they've been compiled on this record. These are records created in Texas, New York, the UK, Germany, Chicago and Los Angeles, made by The Red Krayola whoever they were at the time of they recorded them in 1970, 1978, 1981, 1989, 1994, and 1999."

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	Introduction
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 304CD

"The Red Krayola live to see another day. Having communed with their fans around the world in 2005 -- in Europe, Japan and the U.S. -- they were invigorated. Last summer they returned to one of their favorite haunts, the recording studio, for a session to capture the magic all at once. Today the result -- Introduction, 15 songs strong -- is here, and does just that. Introduction is an epic that presents The Red Krayola at their very best. Featuring the contributions of long-time members Stephen Prina, Tom Watson and John McEntire (who recorded and mixed the album at his Soma Recording Studio), Introduction introduces the accordion styles of Charlie Abel, whose slow flickering squeeze-box lines the album, and the elegant perfection of Noel Kupersmith's bass. The moods of Introduction are alternately contemplative, whimsical, aggressive, amorous, innocent and raw -- while always decorous in that special way popular music demands. Introduction is a new masterpiece from The Red Krayola -- a world of strengths, a compendium of knowledge, a record for today -- to be played for generations to come."

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	Red Gold EP
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	DC 327CD

"Behold Red Gold, the new EP by The Red Krayola in which, following their formal Introduction, they pump out more dark matter from that deep pool of elemental, benchmark crude to lubricate the wheels of history, and rub in your hair. Red Gold features three instrumentals and three songs. 'Paris' conjures the city of lights, an arcade dance-floor at the end of night. 'I Was Bad' is a pure electric harpsichord blues in which fact is truth and truth is triumphant. A gigantic earhook drives 'Easy Street,' the karaoke version of 'Greasy Street'. Its heavy instrumental power fuels words. Come on, sing along. 'The Essence of Life' finds cause for grounds for compassion in the sameness of human function for most purposes. 'The Well' ponders collaboration, how darkness stands to common sense, and how therein hang tales. 'Bong Bong' exits on the street and meanders away. The Red Krayola are members in good standing of the entertainment establishment. They appeal to the broadest cross-section in the marketplace. They have worked and played for forty years inside the great, Billboard-tracked, musico-industrial complex."

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	The Parable Of Arable Land
Label:	GET BACK (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	GET 533

"Originally released on International Artists in 1967. This debut album remains their most notorious and extreme effort. Featuring labelmate Roky Erikson on a couple of tracks." "A glorious night, and I was 'born again' to the music of the 'Rebellation Generation'. Rick, Steve and Mayo, 'The Red Krayola' -- had come to Andrus Studio with a few of their friends, 50 friends to be exact, to record a FREE-FORM FREAK-OUT album. They brought with them their own form of music, -- a bell, buzzsaw, motor cycle, guitars, drums, organs, bottles, stockes, mouth bow, rocks, balloons, kazoos, flutes, piccolos, a hammer, jugs and just about every other item you can think of that makes noise, but then 'Beauty is in the eyes of the Beholder' -- and what is noise to one is Beautiful Music to another. I watched for two hours as a young man made his music by striking two match sticks together. He had apparently flashed -- and to him this was his beautiful music (his girl friend kept time by blowing in a pop bottle)." -- General Fox. "Limited definitions define limit and one can go just so far. Here we go..." -- Mayo Thompson.

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	God Bless The Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
Label:	GET BACK (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	GET 90534

"Red Krayola's second album, originally released on International Artists in 1968. Mayo Thompson and Steve Cunningham returned to Texas for this release and, along with drummer Tommy Smith (who played briefly with Bubble Puppy), began recording the second Red Krayola album, which consisted in numerous one and two minute tracks, taking the band in a more experimental direction." 140 gram red vinyl version.

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