a red red room

As I begin to see the finish line (at least as far as recording is concerned) coming closer for the musical project LITTLE CZAR AND THE PSALMIST, I find myself turning my attention and focus towards other musical endeavors I've always been meaning to get to but never had the chance. One of those projects is red red room.

For the longest time, Nicole and I have wanted to make music together. Whereas in the past, one of us would lend a helping voice or instrument to the other's music (Nicole has made music under the alias i bought a field). This would be a combined effort. More unified and concentric and drawing interplay from each others strengths and weaknesses. I would like to shed some of my experimental tendencies for a "poppier" sound and conversely, she would like to explore making things a bit more noisier and darker.

Almost 3 years ago, as our 7th anniversary rolled around, we treated ourselves to a recording session in which we tried to record 7 songs, all based upon 7 different locations we had lived. 777. The attempt proved less than perfect though; 1. because we hadnt really lived in 7 different locations at that point (unless you count a move accross town which is stretching it). and 2. we had so much other stuff going on in life that it was placed on the back burner, thrown in the sock drawer, put up on the shelf, filed away in the cabinet, --you understand.

Now it seems that our currents of creative life are crossing once again and Nicole and I find ourselves excited to think about creating, writing, and recording together again.

Why the name red red room? That my friends is a story reserved for another time and another place.

Listen here for a rough cut of a song entitled Portland Portland by ryan kennelly