B: Bad Brains

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Drums Recorded by Abe Seiferth 4.4.2012
Mixed and Mastered by Abe Seiferth at Space Bar Studios on 4.4.2012 and 4.8.2012.

All other tracks recorded in MK's bedroom summer 2010 and early 2012 on an SM 58

Copyright 2012 Neoplatonic Publishing

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Originally only supposed to be a working title, Bad Brains is a reduction of a multi part big band composition for the MK Groove Orchestra, that was re-worked on the road with the trio version of the band MK3 and then refracted through my compositional language into a stand alone composition as an homage to the dub stylings of Lee Scratch Perry and King Tubby etc. If you listen closely, the melody mirror's Perry's Black Board Jungle. Mixing engineer Abe Seiferth (he's recorded and mixed a lot of people, Yeasayer, etc. Space Bar Studios_ lovingly helped me achieve the reverb/delay drenched style the track needed. The big band arrangement calls the style dub core as I wanted a slightly more aggressive feel. At the time I was listening to a lot of Bad Brains and NYC No Wave circa 1980's like the Contortions and the Brian Eno No Wave Comp No New York, which inspired in part another composition which made it into the MKGO repertoire. (Michael Kammers)

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from Creative/Destruction, track released April 16, 2012
Tomoaki Kanno - Drums
Kevin Smith - Bass
Thomas Cumming - Guitar
Chris Kuklis - Guitar
MK - Farfisa Fast 4 Organ
Nic Cowles - Flute
Tatum Greenblatt - Trumpet, Flugelhorn

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