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Cookie Policies

by KAMM

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    Tracklist:

    A1. Bird Call
    A2. Rachel, the Largest Bullfrog
    A3. Buckle Down
    A4. CCBPGC
    A5. La Luna
    B1. Shleem
    B2. The Soft Glow of Electric Sex

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1.
Bird Call 05:06
Hear my bird call, baby Hear my crow caw, lady. All we need is… How ‘bout our love? Don’t doubt our love. Hear my bird call, baby Hear my crow caw, lady.
2.
Easy come, and easy go, She’s here today, gone tomorrow. The arrival is so warm, the exit so cold. She leaps like cash, you know: Goes out fast, and comes in slow. From one pad to the next.. Easy come, and easy go, She’s here today, gone tomorrow. The arrival is so warm, the exit so damn cold, She leaps (x3) like cash, you know: Goes out fast, and comes in slow. From one pad to the next, She bounces like her checks. Easy come, and easy go, Here today, here today, gone tomorrow. Just like that, she’s gone.. (Baby my watch just broke, what time is it?).
3.
Buckle Down 04:26
She called out your name, But you couldn’t hear her. Too much noise out there, She called out your name. Too late to respond, At least so it seemed. Too much to choose from, Too late to respond.
4.
CCBPGC 03:11
5.
La Luna 04:24
Always said I’d get back in touch, base with you baby, one day. But twists and turns on the map, keep a man lost away, at sea I swear in every way and shape up I wanna ship out please, Your guiding light it just feels so right, sets my whole course at ease. La Luna x4 Along the way back to you, crew morale can get so damn low. From choppy tides and mermaid asides, some days I just don’t know. Then I remember the way you glow, and your evening company. They say stay true to the north, but you’re always Southwest to me. La Luna x4 Know we had a future once we land ho, baby even if you can’t recall. We set adrift on different ships, blind leading the blind to the hull. Now the winds have changed, so many things have changed, So full speed ahead enough of beacon beams to follow the light, Tonight: anchors down and just look up. La Luna x8
6.
Shleem 04:00
7.
Can’t have it both ways, trying to have it both ways. A one-way street with double standards, and three sides to the truth. Can’t get it, can’t have it: My heart, my heart, my heart, my heart, my heart. A one-way street with double standards, and three sides to the truth. Can’t have it both ways, trying to have it both ways. The sweetest kiss I gave her, is the one she didn’t savor.

about

Following up on their debut LP Kick Drunk Love for Marcel Vogel’s Intimate Friends imprint a few years back, we are proud to present the next installment in the sporadic KAMM legacy: Cookie Policies.

Far more sonically rich and musically adventurous than its predecessor, Cookie Policies sees the band make bold strides into new territories where classically hardwired categories such as jazz, indie rock, and electronica melt into one another with immaculate, timeless ease.

The band members’ positions are more clear cut as well this round, with Marc David Barrite (aka Dave Aju, who also did one of his coveted mix engineering jobs on the LP) on prominent lead vocals in many of the pieces, Alland Byallo on trumpet, Kenneth Scott on synth bass, and Marc Smith adding guitar sections while the others shared the arranging and programming duties. This makes for a deeper continuation of the otherworldly combination of their known individual production styles, as well as a musical whole truly greater than the sum of its parts.

The set starts off with “Bird Call”, whose opening ode to Morricone ok corral-meets-samurai showdown riffs flow into a loose and drifting psychedelic boom bap blip, building until a glorious change-up of key and energy brings the track to its peak and deconstructed back down. “Rachel, the Largest Bullfrog” then takes things in a sweeter, slightly more traditionally-structured direction where dusty indie-folk ballad vibes intersect with an array of twisted cosmic tones, bits of computer keyboard percussion, and deep rolling sub bass. “Buckle Down” then moves things back away from acoustic restraints into a beautiful synth-laden musing on potential regret, with an ultra-potent horn section from Byallo vs a nasty stacked Roland SH-101 finish.

“CCBPGC” cools things off for a few minutes with an ambient field recording slice-and-dice motif, which slowly but surely evolves into a slinking jazz noir groove from another dimension. The more traditional song structures return on the lovely “La Luna”, where Barrite’s pen and soulful voice take to nautical longing themes over apropos waves of sonic textures. The ebb and flow of the verse/chorus sections eventually rise and give way to an absolutely gorgeous denouement. “Shleem” then takes us into pure unadulterated soaring sci-fi soundtrack ambient blast-off bliss, while the epic closing track “The Soft Glow of Electric Sex” gives a hearty nod to early masters of sprawling psychedelic jam sessions, from Pink Floyd and Can to In A Silent Way-era Miles and Liquid Liquid, while bringing it clearly into futurist millennia. The gradual evolution of the piece into its grand finale is the stuff we true music-lovers live and die for. We hope you enjoy the ride as much as we do.

credits

released October 23, 2020

All tracks written and produced by KAMM

Marc Barrite - Lead vocals, percussion, programming 
Alland Byallo - Trumpet, percussion, programming
Kenneth Scott - Moog and SH101 bass, programming
Marc Smith - Guitar

All songs recorded and arranged at the Cave Aju, Berlin

Additional production and final mix engineering on all tracks
by Dave Aju in the Window Seat and Machine Limited studios, LA

Mastered by Matt Colton @ Metropolis Studios, London

Artwork by Andy Gilmore, Layout & Design by République Studio

Published by Circus Company Publishing (SACEM) and Greasy Listening (ASCAP)

(p) & (c) Circus Company 2020
CCS115 - All rights reserved
www.circuscompany.fr

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KAMM Los Angeles, California

After releasing a debut LP Kick Drunk Love for Marcel Vogel’s aptly-titled Intimate Friends label to salivating souls a leap- year ago, we find the elusive KAMM returning to the musical fore with a sonically staggering follow-up album Cookie Policies on Circus Company.
KAMM (perhaps the Kinetic Abyss of the Micro Macro, Kill All Mediocre Music, or Kindly Ask My Mother, depending on whom you ask)
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