Modern Kin - Modern Kin - VINYL LP

Gold colored vinyl LP pressing. While going through his attic in 2018, famous guitarist Robbie van Leeuwen (composer of the worldwide hit InchVenusInch), came across some unique, almost forgotten and unreleased demo material recorded by The Motions back in 1967 in the legendary GTB studio in The Hague. Keyboard player PP Everts suggested the original singer Rudy Bennet that something could and should be done with these songs. After some radical re-working of the material, with arrangements done by PP Everts, Rudy Bennet and guitarist Alan McLachlan, plus a rewriting of the text of InchWarm Me BabyInch by Alan, the song swere taken into the rehearsal room with the full band. The results were so exciting, that it was decided that the tracks should be re-recorded and released, 52 years on from the original sessions! Erik Kuylaars was invited onboard to produce and oversee the whole project. Under his inspiring leadership and with the invaluable help of engineer Iwan Pronk, all the songs, apart from a few overdubs, were recorded by the band in one take. Recorded contains both the 1967 demos as well as the new re-recordings.

After a couple of failed singles in the UK, the Kinks unleashed their trademark sound on the classic 'You Really Got Me' and helped launch thousands of garage bands across the country in the mid-sixties. With the success of You Really Got Me', the Kinks were rushed into the studio to record this, their first full length album from 1964. As such, fewer than half of the songs are Ray Davies originals. But among those is the classic 'Stop Your Sobbing'. The covers are typical of other r'n'b-influenced groups of the period like the Rolling Stones. The Kinks work through respectable versions of Chuck Berry's 'Too Much Monkey Business' and 'Beautiful Delilah', as well as bluesman Slim Harpo's 'Got Love if you Want it'.

Like pausing a VHS tape, music freezes the frenetic motion of daily existence. Even if just for an instant, it calms the feedback loop of routine, engages respite, and provides perspective. Siphoning guitar transmissions and a dynamic vocal push-and-pull through a lens of cinematic production, Lo Moon deftly balance expansive soundscapes and eloquent songcraft. The Los Angeles based quartet-Matt Lowell, Crisanta Baker, Sam Stewart and Sterling Laws - ultimately use music to make sense of each day on their sophomore offering, A Modern Life.