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Consecutive Compendium of Culture – Klezmer, Krautrock, K-Pop, Kaiju, Kung-fu – Kindly knock out a kaleidoscope of killer kultural keeps

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The year moves on, and it’s time for another letter. Anything and everything you hold dear that starts with ‘K’, please!

Kicking off with the KLF – let’s build a fire!

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    • That looks amazingly powerful, @davidks – but with a daughter around that age, I don’t think I could bring myself to watch it, the few times when she has been out of my sight for more than a minute in the park, I had panicky feelings that were very similar to those Damian Lewis displayed in that trailer.

  16. What springs immediately to mind when I think of the letter K (without looking at my iTunes)? Klu Klux Klan, KKK Took My Baby Away, Kolly Kibber’s Birthday, Kooks, Kangaroo, Köln, Kowalski, Kodachrome, Kid, Kashmir and Karmacoma. But I’m gonna go for Kissing. Bliss are one of my favourite recent-ish discoveries. With musicians from Denmark, Sweden, and Guinea-Bissau, they’re “an international world music chill out pop band” based in Denmark. They seem to switch a lot between ambient chill and pop. Kissing shows their pop side.

  21. Nikola Kodjabashia

    Here’s a guy whose music I enjoy: Nikola Kodjabashia. You don’t hear much about him in the media, and the fact that he’s an avant garde composer from Macedonia proabably has something to do with it.

    The music is rather lovely, though, and if you fancy giving it a try, afterworders, then I can recommend Kodjabashia’s 2004 album “Reveries of the Solitary Walker” It’s full of tip-top hummable tunes – if you like the music of, say, Goran Bregovic, then you’ll probably go for Mr Kodjabashia. Available from the tax-dodgers NOW!

  22. K – UNDER
    HERE’S Kahvas Jute
    King Harvest
    Kids In The Kitchen
    Kaos
    Kush
    The Kelpies
    LET’S NOT FORGET:
    Jim Keays – Masters Apprentices
    Steve Kilbey – The Church
    Johnny Kannis – The Hitmen/Radio Birdman
    Paul Kelly – Coloured Girsl – The Dots (among many)

  23. Almost Fogot -Killing Heidi – Kleptomaniacs (OZ groups)
    Just Had a quick squizz at some of my “K’s” here are some just to name a few
    Kings Of leon
    Kyle Fischer
    Kluster
    Komputer
    KT Tunstall
    Kuni Kawachi
    Kaiser Chiefs
    The KILLS
    Kaledoscope

  26. K is for Rudyard Kipling and his many poems set to music by the late lamented Peter Bellamy. Staples of many a folk repertoire, including mine. Here sung by the very wonderful Fay Hield and what must be the most illustrious backing band in UK folk.

  27. Krikey! Some wonderful stuff being posted. Time to add the wonderful Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki.

    Here he is being interviewed by some French geezer in a greasy spoon in Paris.

    An amusing chap!

  30. Kantele: the zither-like national instrument of Finland. Very meditative and soothing to listen to.

    Here’s a little explanation about it, filmed at a Genital Autonomy Conference In Helsinki.

    What the kantele has to do with Genital Autonomy is a mystery that only the Moose knows the answer to!

  34. I do enjoy our fortnightly alphabetical excursion @salwarpe.

    Perhaps when we’re done we could have a special thread for all those alphabetical waifs and strays that aren’t used in English ?

    Ü, ö, œ, ë, å etc etc.

    • Yes, that’s a nice idea, KFD.
      I know there are plenty of fans of Icelandic music among us Afterworders, so we could have enormous fun with artists beginning with the letters ð and Þ.

    • Thank you, @kaisfatdad – there’s always interesting things for me to discover in each fortnight’s thread – and it normally takes that long for me to work through the generous amount of clips.
      An accented thread, eh? Hmmm. Not sure, but it gives me an idea for a final, post-Z thread.

      • No @salwarpe. Not an accented thread. Å, ö a, ä and their cronies are separate letters.

        I’m sure that DuCool and I can manage a quite healthy harvest of music beginning with the letters that aren’t used in English. And you can throw in accented letters too. Mustn’t neglect the umlaut etc.

        Know what you mean about having a week’s listening to get through. A good AW thread opens all sorts of doors. And Spotify provides the key to many of them.

        That’s why I always try to do a playlist after a good thread. Helps me remember things I want to delve into further.

  35. At the risk of stating the obvious: she could sing a bit
    (and to stick with the K theme, here she is covering The Kinks)

    Kirsty MacColl – Days

    Her dulcet tones can be heard backing loads including Talking Heads, The Smiths, Big Country, Jake Burns, Alison Moyet, Simple Minds and The Pogues (I’m sure she did something seasonal/Christmas-y with the too)

    • Fabulous music, fabulous clothes.
      I used to think KC stood for Kid Creole, now I’d probably think of King Crimson or Creosote, I suppose. And in my head, they are singing ‘Dance away the heartache’. Wrong on so many levels.

  40. Stumbled across Kinesis recently after reading a nice Where Are They Now article on the singer (see below), and picking up the “Handshakes for Bullets” album cheap on Amazon. It’s flawed, but I still rather like it.

    http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/20/experience-i-was-a-teenage-rock-star

    “Somehow we ended up performing in New York, and to 5,000 people at the Fuji Rock festival in Japan. There’s no greater rush than the moment you step on stage. The lights dim, the crowd swells and they erupt as you unleash an almighty racket.”

    Anyway, here’s what they sound like

    (“Average American Corpse” – Kinesis)

  56. Kevin Coyne. With Jon Langford & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts from his swansong album “One Day In Chicago”. A radically revamped version of “Saviour”.

  61. Ketamines A nice little slice of garage rock outta Calgary Canada from a couple o’ years ago. Can’t find any recent info so wondering if they still exist, This, the title track from their last album is a longtime fave of mine.
    “Your brain is leaving yeah yeah, your body’s stayin’ yeah yeah”

    https://youtu.be/FFTDlUdPzdA

  63. Khartoum Heroes, where King Creosote began, many many moons ago (the album I have is dated from 15 years ago). This looks to be a fairly recent get together. Think I prefer his own stuff.

  67. Love love love Kathy McCarty’s album of Daniel Johnston covers she did (yikes!I just frightened myself! 20 years ago now)She did him proud (especially as I find much of his own stuff unlistenable) Her next project was supposed to be an album of Irish folk covers, which I was really looking forward to hearing, but don’t think she’s ever recorded anything else since.

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