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| '''The Red Krayola''' (formerly the Red Crayola) is an American ] band from ], ], formed in 1966 by the original trio of singer/guitarist ], drummer ], and bassist Steve Cunningham.<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|page=1000|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref> | '''The Red Krayola''' (formerly the Red Crayola) is an American ] band from ], ], formed in 1966 by the original trio of singer/guitarist ], drummer ], and bassist Steve Cunningham.<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|page=1000|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref> | ||
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The group were sort of part of the same 1960s Texas ] scene in which ] were in.<ref>{{cite book |last=Reynolds |first=Simon |title=Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 |date=2005 |publisher=]|page=192|ISBN=0-14-303672-6}}</ref> While studying art at the ], the members signed with independent label ].<ref name="allmusic"/> Their confrontational, ] approach employed ] and ]. <ref name="allmusic"/> | ||
| The Red Crayola disbanded in the late 1960s, but were resurrected in the late 1970s when Thompson moved to England and found favor in the ] scene.<ref name="allmusic"/> Thompson has continued using the name, in its legally altered spelling for performances or releases in the USA, for his musical projects since. The group has released recordings on European labels such as ] and ].<ref name="allmusic"/> In the mid-1990s, Thompson returned to the United States, signing with ] and releasing further albums.<ref name="allmusic"/> | The Red Crayola disbanded in the late 1960s, but were resurrected in the late 1970s when Thompson moved to England and found favor in the ] scene.<ref name="allmusic"/> Thompson has continued using the name, in its legally altered spelling for performances or releases in the USA, for his musical projects since. The group has released recordings on European labels such as ] and ].<ref name="allmusic"/> In the mid-1990s, Thompson returned to the United States, signing with ] and releasing further albums.<ref name="allmusic"/> | ||
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| ==History== | ==History== | ||
| ===1960s=== | ===1960s=== | ||
| ⚫ | The album '']'' was recorded in 1967 but rejected by ] for its lack of commercial potential. It departed completely from the full-sounding guitar/bass/drums/vocals rock sound of the Red Krayola's first album |
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| The Red Crayola was formed in ] mid-July 1966 by ] and ], they went through an array of other players before settling on Steve Cunningham who in September 1966 joined the band alongside his friend Bonnie Emerson and then later Danny Schact, for a while this was the original lineup of the band. They performed at Mark Froman's club called Love with the help of Luana Anderson who got them the gig. Later on they changed the lineup to just ], Steve Cunningham and ] the original trio that would go on to record ''']'''<ref>https://white-rose.net/redcrayola/dc257bio2.pdf</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | The band's second album to see release (and the first to be released with the new "Krayola" spelling) was 1968's '']''. |
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| The band formed a secondary group which would later consist of 50 people called "The Familiar Ugly" which consisted of all the people who'd perform with the band on stage using unconventional techniques and instruments in order to make their music - it was built around Jamie Jones, F.R.B Rapho, George Farrar, Joe Pritchett and Bill Smith. | |||
| The band performed at a Battle of The Bands event that was held at the ], Houston's first shopping mall - it was at this event where they met record producer ] who happened to be there in hopes of purchasing a parakeet - The Red Crayola were signed to ] and told to bring their 20 friends (The Familiar Ugly at the time) with them. | |||
| ⚫ | The album '']'' was recorded in 1967 but rejected by ] for its lack of commercial potential. It departed completely from the full-sounding guitar/bass/drums/vocals rock sound of the Red Krayola's first album. The album did not see release until 1995. During this period, the band performed concerts in ] and ] where their music resembled that of ] than any of their other albums. These performances are captured on ''Live 1967''. The Red Krayola also performed with guitarist ] and recorded an entire studio album of music in collaboration with him, but ] demanded possession of the tapes. Those tapes went missing and have remained lost ever since. | ||
| ⚫ | The band's second album to see release (and the first to be released with the new "Krayola" spelling) was 1968's '']''. Following the cease & desist letter they received from ] the company which manufactured Crayola crayons. The album was not as well received as the band's first release and the Red Krayola's original lineup disbanded. Studio demos by the original Red Crayola were released on the 1980 compilation of International Artists rarities, ''Epitaph for a Legend''. | ||
| ===1970s–1980s=== | ===1970s–1980s=== | ||
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| The Red Krayola | |
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 Red Krayola at Somerset house in London, July 2018 | |
| Background information | |
| Also known as | The Red Crayola |
| Origin | Houston, Texas, United States |
| Genres | post-rock, free improvisation, noise rock, punk rock |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Labels | Rough Trade Records, International Artists, Celluloid Records, Leiterwagen Records, Radar Records, Sordide Sentimental, Drag City |
| Members | Mayo Thompson Albert Oehlen |
| Past members | Frederick Barthelme Steve Cunningham Jesse Chamberlain Lora Logic Allen Ravenstine David Thomas Markus Oehlen Tom Watson Epic Soundtracks |
The Red Krayola (formerly the Red Crayola) is an American experimental rock band from Houston, Texas, formed in 1966 by the original trio of singer/guitarist Mayo Thompson, drummer Frederick Barthelme, and bassist Steve Cunningham.
The group were sort of part of the same 1960s Texas psychedelic scene in which the Thirteenth Floor Elevators were in. While studying art at the University of St. Thomas, the members signed with independent label International Artists. Their confrontational, experimental approach employed noise and "free form freak-outs".
The Red Crayola disbanded in the late 1960s, but were resurrected in the late 1970s when Thompson moved to England and found favor in the post-punk scene. Thompson has continued using the name, in its legally altered spelling for performances or releases in the USA, for his musical projects since. The group has released recordings on European labels such as Rough Trade and Recommended. In the mid-1990s, Thompson returned to the United States, signing with Drag City and releasing further albums.
History
1960s
The Red Crayola was formed in Houston, Texas mid-July 1966 by Mayo Thompson and Frederick Barthelme, they went through an array of other players before settling on Steve Cunningham who in September 1966 joined the band alongside his friend Bonnie Emerson and then later Danny Schact, for a while this was the original lineup of the band. They performed at Mark Froman's club called Love with the help of Luana Anderson who got them the gig. Later on they changed the lineup to just Mayo Thompson, Steve Cunningham and Frederick Barthelme the original trio that would go on to record The Parable of Arable Land
The band formed a secondary group which would later consist of 50 people called "The Familiar Ugly" which consisted of all the people who'd perform with the band on stage using unconventional techniques and instruments in order to make their music - it was built around Jamie Jones, F.R.B Rapho, George Farrar, Joe Pritchett and Bill Smith.
The band performed at a Battle of The Bands event that was held at the Gulfgate Center, Houston's first shopping mall - it was at this event where they met record producer Lelan Rogers who happened to be there in hopes of purchasing a parakeet - The Red Crayola were signed to International Artists and told to bring their 20 friends (The Familiar Ugly at the time) with them.
The album Coconut Hotel was recorded in 1967 but rejected by International Artists for its lack of commercial potential. It departed completely from the full-sounding guitar/bass/drums/vocals rock sound of the Red Krayola's first album. The album did not see release until 1995. During this period, the band performed concerts in Berkeley, California and Los Angeles, California where their music resembled that of Coconut Hotel than any of their other albums. These performances are captured on Live 1967. The Red Krayola also performed with guitarist John Fahey and recorded an entire studio album of music in collaboration with him, but International Artists demanded possession of the tapes. Those tapes went missing and have remained lost ever since.
The band's second album to see release (and the first to be released with the new "Krayola" spelling) was 1968's God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It. Following the cease & desist letter they received from Crayola the company which manufactured Crayola crayons. The album was not as well received as the band's first release and the Red Krayola's original lineup disbanded. Studio demos by the original Red Crayola were released on the 1980 compilation of International Artists rarities, Epitaph for a Legend.
1970s–1980s
Mayo Thompson continued to make music, both under his own name and as The Red Crayola (reverting to the original name in Europe). The next incarnation of the group was a duo: Thompson and American drummer Jesse Chamberlain. The two recorded the single "Wives in Orbit" and the album Soldier Talk, with the latter featuring cameos by Lora Logic and members of Pere Ubu, both of which could be seen as musical responses to punk rock. Radar Records reissued Parable of Arable Land in 1978 in the UK, accompanied by a flexi-disc, on which was an up-tempo version of Hurricane Fighter Plane recorded in July 1978, with an apparent punk rock influence as well. His collaborations in the 1970s and 1980s read like a roll-call of the avant-garde and experimental artists and musicians of the era. The Red Crayola teamed up with the British-American conceptual art collective Art & Language, who Thompson described as "the baddest bastards on the block", for three LPs: 1976's Corrected Slogans, 1981's Kangaroo? (also featuring The Raincoats' Gina Birch, Lora Logic of Essential Logic and Swell Maps' Epic Soundtracks) and 1983's Black Snakes. Thompson joined Pere Ubu for a period in the early 1980s, performing on their albums The Art of Walking and Song of the Bailing Man, and provided soundtrack music for Derek Jarman. Throughout this time he was prolific as a producer for many other seminal experimental and alternative rock acts, including The Fall (1980's Grotesque (After the Gramme)), The Raincoats, Scritti Politti, Blue Orchids, Cabaret Voltaire, Stiff Little Fingers, Kleenex/LiLiPUT, The Chills and Primal Scream.
1990s–present
The 1990s found The Red Krayola with a new audience, who came to the group via musicians associated with Chicago's post-rock scene and in particular the Drag City label, who had joined the band's ever-shifting line-up for a number of releases including the LPs The Red Krayola (1994), Hazel (1996), and Fingerpainting (1999). These were, among others, Jim O'Rourke and David Grubbs of Gastr del Sol, the post-conceptual visual artist Stephen Prina, German painter Albert Oehlen, George Hurley (formerly of Minutemen and Firehose), Tom Watson of Slovenly, Sandy Yang, Elisa Randazzo and John McEntire of Tortoise. In 2006, the group issued an album, Introduction, and an EP, Red Gold.
In 1995, Drag City released 1967's Coconut Hotel LP and in 1998 issued The Red Krayola Live 1967 with material from the Angry Arts Festival and Berkeley Folk Music Festival including their live collaboration with John Fahey.
In 2007, Drag City released Sighs Trapped by Liars, another collaboration of Red Krayola with Art & Language, followed in 2010 with another, Five American Portraits, which consists of musical portraits of Wile E. Coyote, President George W Bush, President Jimmy Carter, John Wayne, and Ad Reinhardt, with vocals by Gina Birch. In 2016 came Baby and Child Care, recorded in 1984.
Covers
Houston, Texas hardcore punk band Really Red recorded a cover of "War Sucks" for their 1984 Rest in Pain LP and followed it with a soundscape piece entitled "Just the Facts Ma'am", which is an obvious tribute to the free-form freakouts on "Parable of Arable Land".
British space rock group Spacemen 3 recorded a version of "Transparent Radiation" from the Red Krayola's Parable of Arable Land, and the same album's lead track "Hurricane Fighter Plane" was covered by Nik Turner's post-Hawkwind outfit Inner City Unit, UK Goth rock legends Alien Sex Fiend in 1986 and by Scottish act Future Pilot AKA in 1996, as well as by ultra-violent punkrockers The Dwarves (who were originally a psychedelic garage band). Also covering "Hurricane Fighter Plane" was New Zealand post-punk band The Pin Group, led by future solo performer Roy Montgomery. Boston-based indie outfit Galaxie 500 covered "Victory Garden" from the Red Krayola's second album on their own second album On Fire. In April 2009, Spectrum, fronted by ex-Spacemen 3 frontman Peter Kember, released an EP named for and headlined by a cover of "War Sucks".
Discography
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References
- ^ Unterberger, Richie. "The Red Krayola". AllMusic. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
- ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 1000. ISBN 1-85227-745-9.
- Reynolds, Simon (2005). Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984. Penguin Group. p. 192. ISBN 0-14-303672-6.
- https://white-rose.net/redcrayola/dc257bio2.pdf
- Buckley, P.; Buckley, J.; Furmanovsky, J.; Rough Guides (Firm) (2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Music reference series. Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-85828-457-6. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
- "The Red Crayola - Hurricane Fighter Plane [1978]". Shelf3d.com. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- John Walker. (1987). "Art-Language & Red Crayola" Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine. In Cross-Overs: Art into Pop, Pop into Art. London/New York: Comedia/Methuen, 1987. artdesigncafe. Retrieved 07 January 2011.
- "Dusted Reviews: The Red Krayola with Art & Language - Five American Portraits". Dustedmagazine.com. 2010-01-20. Retrieved 2012-04-01.
External links
- The Red Krayola on Discogs
- The Red Krayola at AllMusic
- Thorough discography
- The Red Krayola on Drag City
- Piece Red Krayola's importance from NewYorkNightTrain.com
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