Kinski / Down Below It's Chaos - SP741

Kinski is a four-piece rock band from Seattle, WA. Their unique evocation of avant-rock is deconstructionist and heady, but also emotive and visceral. NME described Kinski as: “Like Sabbath in a washing machine during a power surge.” Comprised of guitarists Chris Martin and Matthew Reid-Schwartz (Matthew also plays keyboards and flute), bassist Lucy Atkinson, and drummer Barrett Wilke, Kinski have toured with Mission of Burma, Comets on Fire, Oneida, Mono, Acid Mothers Temple, Black Mountain, and most recently opened a month of dates for Tool on their spring ’07 tour. Produced and recorded by Randall Dunn (Earth, Sunn O))), Boris) at his Aleph Studio in Seattle, Down Below It’s Chaos is Kinski’s 3rd full-length for Sub Pop. With the notable inclusion of 3 songs with subdued yet urgent vocals courtesy of Chris Martin, the new record is a kaleidoscopic mix of Kinski’s expansive, over-driven power and intricate beauty. With majestically fuzzed-out guitar tones, spare and pounding rhythms, and swirling sonic textures, Down Below It’s Chaos sums up Kinski’s past and propels them into the ozone. What’s left of it, that is.

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Video for Kinski’s Punching Goodbye Out Front on YouTube

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Released: August 21, 2007

Kinski / Airs Above Your Station - SP620

Kinski’s Sub Pop full-length debut! (This record was also released as a limited ed. double LP, by the fine folks at Strange Attractors Audio House.) New Sub Pop roster addition Kinski is a (mostly…) instrumental rock quartet from Seattle. By turns melodic, swelling, roaring, propulsive, and sparse, Kinski walks the margins of avant-rock (ref. High Rise, Sonic Youth, Bardo Pond, Mogwai, GYBE) with nods to Krautrock and a penchant for noisy psychedelia. Airs Above Your Station is Kinski’s third full-length (after the self-released Space Launch for Frenchie and 2001’s stunning Be Gentle with the Warm Turtle on Pacifico Recordings).

SP620

Release date: January 21, 2003

Released: 2003-01-21 (CD), 2003-01-23 (LP), 2003-01-21 (MP3s)

Kinski / Alpine Static - SP667

Combining avant-garde experimentalism picked up from their interest in composers like Terry Riley and Steve Reich with a fondness for ‘70s Krautrock pioneers like Ash Ra Tempel, and the gut-level thrust, heft and swing of Black Sabbath, the Groundhogs and ’60s/’70s Mexican psych band Los Dug Dug’s, Kinski have established themselves as Seattle’s foremost psych rock explorers. And, they have toured extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan, including tours with Mission of Burma, Oneida, Comets on Fire, Acid Mothers Temple and …Trail of the Dead. Blender magazine on their last album: “…they follow measured guitar burn with bone-rattling explosions, and roll mesmerizing tension into colossal release.”
Alpine Static is their second full-length for Sub Pop and finds the band capturing the explosive rush and emotional power of their live shows, where they range from sweeping, pastoral interludes through headlong, thunderous charges. Recorded in January of 2005, Alpine Static is an immediate, visceral record. On it, Kinski use riff, repetition, incremental layering, bursts of noise, sudden changes in pace and volume, all shot through with a sense of melody to provide new ways of seeing and feeling guitar-based rock.
But, more importantly than all that, Kinski manage to infuse experimental music with emotion and fun. What they offer and the source of their appeal is more a full-bore sensory thrill-ride than anything else. Kinski wants to take you to faraway places and show you exciting things. And Alpine Static is the key.

SP667

Release date: July 12, 2005

Released: July 12, 2005

Kinski / Kinski / Acid Mothers Temple - SP626

A four-song split release from Kinski and their friends Acid Mothers Temple, limited to 5000 copies on CD and 1000 on double-LP. After a December 2001 Japanese tour together, the two bands did a bit of home-recording together. Kinski’s Chris Martin in the record’s liner notes: “Months and months later, I sat down with the tapes and began mixing what seemed to be the most interesting 10 minutes of the session, which became ’It’s Nice to Hear Your Voice.’ Kawabata [Makoto] wanted to overdub onto my mix (along with Tsuyama, Acid Mothers’ bassist, who wasn’t at the original sessions) and the results are ‘Planet Crazy Gold.’ ‘Fell Asleep On Your Lawn’ and ‘Virginal Plane 5:23’ are new Kinski and Acid Mothers Temple tracks (respectively).”
This CD is limited to 5000 copies in the US.
Track Listing:
1. Fell Asleep On Your Lawn (Kinski)
2. It’s Nice To Hear Your Voice (Kinski and Acid Mothers Temple)
3. Planet Crazy Gold (Kinski and Acid Mothers Temple)
4. Virginal Plane (Acid Mothers Temple)

Released: October 7, 2003

Kinski / Spacelaunch For Frenchie - SAAH035

Kinski / Be Gentle With The Warm Turtle - SAAH036

Released: January 1, 2004

Kinski / Chris Martins Solo Project: AMPBUZZ THIS IS MY... - RS-SAAH009

CHRIS MARTIN FROM KINSKIS SOLO EFFORT. DREAMIER AND MORE EXPERIMENTAL THAN
KINSKI YET EQUALLY ENGAGING.

TRACK LISTING:
1. BUBBLES
2. CENTER FOR CLOUDS
3. SOFT CURRENCY
4. DIVING INSTRUCTIONS
5. WELCOME TO THE OCEAN FLOOR
6. UNDERWATER BOMB

Released: August 6, 2002

Kinski / Dont Climb On and Take theHoly Water - SAAH022

Track Listing:
1. Never Compete with Small Girls
2. The Misprint in the Gutenburg Print Shop
3. Crepes the Cheap
4. Bulky Knit Cheerleader Sweater
5. Theres Nothing Sexy About Time

Kinski / Crickets and Fireflies, split with Paik and Surface of Eceyon - MF011

Track Listing:
Kinski
1. Keep Clear of Me, I am Maneuvering with Difficulty
Paik
1. Spanish Holiday
2. Eva
Surface of Eceyon
1. Concert of Stars