Here’s Kiss The Frog’s set at Harvelle’s in Long Beach, CA on Sunday July 15, 2018. Lots of experiments and chances taken in this set – four live premieres and an improvisation. Here’s the setlist and link to individual downloads. Grab a zip archive containing the whole show here.
Improvisation (15:55) >
Seven Side Die (10:15) *
Ping (9:41) *
The Number Station * > Red # (11:22) >
Silverback > Close Encounters (9:51)
* Premiere
# by King Crimson, first time played
Man’s best friend. At the ready with slippers, newspaper or to lick away your tears – the dog. “Dog” is the third album release from Kiss The Frog in 2018 and one that covers even more sonic ground than the previous two. With one foot in jam funk, one in jazz exploration, one in classical atonal counterpoint and another in the avant-garde, “Dog” continues Kiss The Frog’s trajectory of sniffing and marking spaces hitherto unknown.
Dog is available to purchase via Bandcamp, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services.
The Wisdom of Impermanence (16:04)
Dogs (Three Different Ones) (15:23)
Kontrapunkt Rock (11:13)
Missing Sequences (6:35)
Denki Unagi (17:42)
All tracks improvised by Kiss The Frog.
Recorded by Peter Hillman at Saddle Peak Ranch Studios, Topanga, CA November 2017 – January 2018.
Mixed, edited, sequenced and mastered by Peter and Charles.
Produced by Kiss The Frog.
Cover illustration by Hannah Newton.
The official video for “Ohm” from KTF’s “Resistance” album. Dig it!
Kiss The Frog is proud to announce the release of Versus The Monsters of The Seven Seas to download and streaming services worldwide. Versus The Monsters of The Seven Seas is the second of three albums set for release in spring 2018. All three albums were culled from a series recording sessions that took place in late 2017 at the band’s studio in Topanga, California.
Versus The Monsters of The Seven Seas‘s three extended tracks form a 56-minute virtual sonic journey through undersea wonderlands. This is Kiss The Frog at their cinematic and psychedelic best.
Electric Eel (Parts III) (18:55)
The Eventually Everything Machine (14:45)
Deepwater Pursuit (21:25)
Versus The Monsters of the Seven Seas is available via Bandcamp, iTunes and Spotify and Apple Music.
All tracks improvised by Kiss The Frog.
Recorded by Peter Hillman at Saddle Peak Ranch Studios, Topanga, CA November 2017 – January 2018.
Mixed, edited, sequenced and mastered by Peter and Charles.
Cover illustration by Hannah Newton.
Produced by Kiss The Frog.
The last show such a blast, we decided we’d do another! Here’s the info:
At the legendary Harvelle’s Long Beach
201 E Broadway Long Beach, CA 90802
Tickets are $10, doors open at 4:20pm, KTF starts promptly at 5pm – we’ll see you there!!
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If you are interested in booking KTF, please get in touch: booking at ktf3 dot com.
We recently rescued the last known copy of the official video of “Propaganda” (The Berlin Tapes version) from the jaws of a slowly withering away video streaming service Veoh. It is proudly presented here in its pixellated glory for your amusement and enjoyment. Directed by Jibbork Takayama.
via Starvox.net
Kiss The Frog, tonight’s headliners (if a gig at which all the bands are more or less level-pegging in terms of profile can be said to have a headliner) are apparently winding up an extensive European tour. They’re a wiggy art-rock psychedelic experience from California, and you can almost tell where they come from simply by looking at their clothes. The bass player’s wearing beige slacks and burgundy loafers. He looks like he’s just stepped off his yacht. Very laid-back.
The music is mostly instrumental – long, looping workouts that unfurl and curl back on themselves. The bass is nimble, dancing all over the drums, which themselves jump around all over the place but still somehow keep the beat rock-solid and pushing forward. Over all this, great shuddering slabs of distort-o-guitar arrive like gatecrashers at a party. The band use about a squillion effects pedals, and sometimes they just seem to play the effects: the sounds are in the effects loops, going round and round, then out to the Theremin, and back again. Ah, yes, the Theremin. This is Kiss The Frog’s secret weapon: played as a lead instrument, via all those effects pedals, it whoops and buzzes and shrieks like a whole army of fuzzed-out guitarists.
The band seem to have attracted some fans from somewhere – they all look like Zonker in the Doonesbury cartoon strip – but mostly they’re playing to a mix of goths and indie kids, all of whom, I’d guess, are utterly unfamiliar with the music. And yet, the room is captivated, and when the final song fades out in a fuzzstorm of effects, the applause is tremendous. I’m left feeling that maybe I should’ve got into the Grateful Dead after all. Dammit, this stuff is good.
Kiss The Frog are proud to announce the release of Kiss The Frog, the self-titled album, on April 20, 2018. Kiss the Frog contains four pieces of KTF improvisational magic spread out over sixty-six minutes of soaring, atmospheric grooves that swirl with psychedelia and ooze analog soul.
Kiss The Frog is available to preorder via Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon and Google Play now.
Stream track Let’s Take The Scenic Route below:
When Phill Colins Collides Into Neptune (Parts I-IV) (25:23)
Let’s Take The Scenic Route (11:02)
Recreational Dentistry (11:53)
C20H25N3O (16:54)
Kiss The Frog was recorded live – with no overdubs – to 24 track analog tape at Saddle Peak Ranch Studios in Topanga, California between October 2017 and January 2018. The album was engineered by Pete, mixed by Pete & Charles, and edited/sequenced/mastered by Charles. Cover artwork was drawn by Hannah Newton. Produced by Kiss The Frog.
Preorder via Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon and Google Play.
Kiss The Frog is the first of three album releases culled from the same recording sessions. Each album in this series explores different sound worlds and experimental approaches to real-time musical composition. The next release in this series, entitled Versus The Monsters of The Seven Seas, will make beachhead on Friday May 18, 2018.
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We’ve got some live if you want it. KTF’s entire set from 01/06/2018 show at The Lava Lounge at Di’Piazza’s in Long Beach CA (192kbps mp3). Click on the track names to download/stream.
01 Improvisation* (19:21) 26.6mb
02 Pharmacy* # (12:45) 17.6mb
03 Gordon Clark* (14:43) 20.3mb
04 Saturn (14:33)& 20mb
05 Silverback* (17:39) 24.3mb
* premiere
# played once by FOOD, expanded and rewritten
& by FOOD, KTF premiere
Also on the bill, Mike Watt + His Secondmen, The Ziggens, Hurricane Kate and Everyone is Dirty.
