Saturday, September 24, 2005

Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores do not have retina damage (that I know of)

and the eyesores

Alec K. Redfearn is not a simple man. Alec K. Redfearn is a multitasking musician with around 15 or so years od musical experience, at least. Alec K. Redfearn's website backs me up in saying "his music has been very difficult to categorize" (except I'd spell it with an 's' instead of a 'z'. but that's just geography). Alec K. Redfearn's current project is called Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores, although they're quite pretty to look at. Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores formed in '97 and are still astounding. Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores have worked with a film director, and theatre and dance troupes. Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores could very well be a circus gypsy family, except on the surface at least, they don't look the sort. Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores confuse categorisation maybe because of the instruments they use, with accordion, upright bass, cello, electric guitar, drums, french horn, and bassoon, Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores could very well be the more grown-up, less Australian Architecture in Helsinki (this is mostly just because they have a lot of instruments and alternate between things and sometimes they get more in from other places like ciolins and banjos and stuff. the two bands sound no way similar). Alec K. Redfearn also teaches accordion to friends and family and their friends in Rhode Island, but this is maybe only handy to know if you become a friend of his. Their latest full length album, The Quiet Room is available from cuneiform records and was released in January of this year.

"This is an amusingly complicated musical device, a jerking, juddering clockwork whose workings are difficult to understand but whose net effect is worthwhile. "
- Ink 19.