War Is Family

Graffiti by Jilly Ballistic ( 7th Ave Subway,NYC 2021?) Photo by Konrad Kinard 2021. modifications by Incinerate media.

A Radio Drama without the drama or the radio .

A Spoken Word and Music performance.

Growing up with eternal threat of death, breeding nihilism. The eternal monster-under-the-bed. War and racial unrest, assassinations and corruption. The effect on our societies and our families. To live in lies, gaslighting, eternal crisis, trauma, and panic, but always a sliver of hope. As above, so below.'

This is a letter from a survivor of the Cold War to the Now.

War Is Family Track Sequence

1 Born A Texan / 2 Better Red Than Dead/ 3 Siddhartha Goes To Alabama / 4 Three Sisters / 5 Red Ant Hill / 6 Daddy Bought A Gun / 7 Assassination Postcard / 8 The Bomb Shelter / 9 Rockets / 10 Berlin Preamble / 11 Surrounded Berlin / 12 Gaslight / 13 War Is Family / 14 The Rat Hole / 15 Dog Tags / 16 Russian Bombers / 17 Love Orgy Hot / 18 Nuke The Russians / 19 Sun Rises / 20 A Texas Summer Night

Credits:

Konrad Kinard- Music and Text, Vocals , programming, Guitar, Piano , E-Bass.Carrugahorn, arrangements
Chris Farr - Drums
Frederik Kinbom- Bass in Siddhartha Goes To Alabama, Harmonium on Red Ant Hill and Sun Is Rising, manipulations and re-imaginations on everything else.
Lola Kinard- Vocals on Sun Is Rising
Taro Kinard - ( the 10 year old) Vocals on Sun Is Rising, Better Red Than Dead, Red Ant Hill, Siddhartha Goes To Alabama, Love Orgy Hot. Bass Drum in War Is Family
BJ Cole- Steel Guitar
Emily Burridge- Cello on Love Orgy Hot
Eleonora Rosca- All other cellos
Fergus Quill- Upright Bass on Sun Is Rising
Bill Brovold- Feedback (I ask for feedback about the track but he sent feedback for the track) - Dog Tags

Junior Laniyan- Tap dancing on Better Red Than Dead

All basic music tracks recorded at Falling On Deaf Ears , Leeds,UK over dubs anywhere there was a space

War s Family ( the original live track) was recorded at AndereBaustelle, Berlin, By Boris Wilsdorf, with overdubs across the UK. Bryce Goggin - Trout Studio, Brooklyn -production and re-arrangement.
Vocal over dubs and spoken texts recorded at Old Chapel Recording Studio with David Whitaker. in Leeds, UK
Produced by Incinerate media and Frederik Kinbom
Mixed and mastered by Frederik Kinbom at Madame Vega's Boudoir in Berlin

Though not in these recordings, thanks to the amazing Hearn Gadbois, Middle -eastern percussion master, who showed up to chaos and kept it all together. Also, Matthias Helig , cellist, who performed at the Berlin premiers and contributed to the organisation of the manuscripts.

Extreme Gratitude to Andrew Sugden (of Bradford,UK), Elke Graalfs and Kremer Gallery ( both of Berlin) without whom I would have never gotten off may backside to put this thing together.

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