ITS ON!....RED on RED....IN ALL CAPS!!!!!

Its on! Nicole and I are approaching our 10th anniversary (April 22nd) like a freight train and we are more than half way done recording the album....Some old songs, some new. My hope and prayer is that this project and our anniversary rekindle things we lost along the way (the 7 year hump really does exist!).

To stoke the fire under our butts, I've decided to post a song every Monday for the next couple of weeks until we have finished it completely. Im pretty sure we can have this baby bagged and tagged before March rolls around....after that comes mastering and then figuring out how to distribute it. -CDs? -Vinyl? -MP3s?

Here is one of the songs I wrote. Its entitled "feather down" and, of course, its about Nicole (everyone go ahead and say AAAAHHHHHHH in a sappy, nasally way). The song is long, but when we send it to get mastered, we will have them cut it into two tracks. ENJOY> (FB peeps can view it here= http://soundcloud.com/tactilecollective/red-on-red-feather-down).

RED on RED--Feather down by ryan kennelly

The best christmas song ever! And my wife wrote it! Exclamation point, exclamation point, etc.!

3 years ago, the label asthmatic kitty held a christmas song competition and put the finalists on a virtual compilation they streamed from their website. Nicole got the itch to enter it and we spent a few days writing and recording her christmas song.

She didnt make it into the final cut, but as far as Im concerned, she wrote one of the best Christmas songs ever, in fact, its one of my personal favorites of hers.....sometimes when she is sitting at the piano tinkering away, I ask her to play it for me.........even if its July.

Anyways, I say all that because Im going to give a try at reduxing it for the LITTLE CZAR stuff Im currently working on.......we'll see. Hopefully the redux version works as well as hers.............

Here you go. Enjoy.
Nicole's christmas song by ryan kennelly
http://soundcloud.com/tactilecollective/nicoles-christmas-song



PS. I havnt put my nose to the grindstone yet concerning the branded paintings, but I plan on using the next two weeks of vacation and at least starting them.....

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