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Betwixt

by Kevin and Hell

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Dada 03:33
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Purple Coat 03:09
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Blankquility 03:16
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Swing State 03:15
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Ambition 03:11
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Dissolve 00:50
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about

“She tells me/ she’s liquid/ and falling through the cracks” go the lyrics in track 3 ‘Purple Coat’. It is the feeling of that line which permeates Betwixt.

Emerging from the sleep of minimalistic indie rock, this dense electronic orchestra led by the jazz fever of the composer’s guitar and the delicate enunciations of Tommaso’s percussion, creates a sound which evokes a mood, such Duke Ellington’s classic recordings of , ‘Azure’, ‘Blue Serge’ or ‘Mood Indigo’.

Betwixt tunes into the complex tonal possibilities of music, honing in on the signal of jazz from outer space, presented in the context of tape recorded rock and roll with a DIY vibration.

Betwixt is the first of three (plus a jazz LP recorded with Greg Ward) albums from Kevin and Hell which combine to form a vellum map of the universe. The other two records, On Earth and Stairway to the Vast Realm of Possibility (forthcoming on Bandcamp in 2018), will hem in the cosmos from above and below.

Betwixt, finds us solidly on nebulous grounds- where more is more, where dark and light exist dependent on each other for survival, alongside lyrical and melodic images, purple and cloud-like as the album artwork.

Today when Kevin and Hell plays live they are accompanied by a big band drawn from professional jazz musicians in Chicago, called The Zorchestra. The Zorchestra conception is a far cry from the garage shows they played as teenager in Orange County alongside musicians who would go on to be in bands like Useless Eaters and Thee Oh Sees. It’s also far from where the band was a few years ago, playing house shows solo with a guitar and a backing track in an oversized lime green suit and hustling jazz gigs in Chicago restaurants at night.

“To be zorched is to be far outside the ordinary experience of being conscious,” said Kevin and Hell. “The aim of Zorchestra is to bring the listener outside of the quotidian. This album begins to unravel the musical mythology of Kevin and Hell.”

credits

released April 27, 2018

Recorded in Chicago 2017

Cassette dubbed by Dark Circle records in Chicago

artwork by asa von hagen
design by tim quirk
mixing by nate amos done in New York

drums - tomasso moretti
songs, vocals, synths and arrangements - kevin and hell
saxophones on Dada - natalie lande /isaiah sanderman

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