Kites - Royal Paint With the Metallic Gardner From the United States Helped Into an Open Field By Women and Children
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Christopher Forgues is Kites, a one-man noise project genuinely aimed towards the betterment of man and Forgues own self-exploration. Whether or not the former lofty goal can be attained through music is up for debate, and could be the subject of a much longer discourse than this forum allows, and the success of the latter is something to which only Forgues knows the answer. What the listener is left with, then, is simply the means with which Forgues has sought advancement in these two objectives, a lengthily titled CD of electronic noise and simple acoustic statements.
The majority of Royal Paint... is made up of the distorted, improvised electronic music by which Kites has made his name in live performances in his hometown of Providence, RI and elsewhere. The first and best of these tracks, "Staring into the Sun," is almost ten minutes of dueling tones, high-pitched screeches swooping and flittering like mosquitoes in the sky, with a fixed low end buzz providing a faint accompaniment. Interspersed among this any other fuzz-laden electronic freakouts are brief pieces of organic folk, lo-fi choruses of clapping and singing, acoustic guitar melodies, leading to a much more relaxed atmosphere within Kites' homemade storm. These songs, while short, offer an unexpected bit of variety to an album whose duration might otherwise obscure the quality of the sounds within.
A nine-minute compilation of live performances from five different cities, "Call Out Your Real Name" offers a bit more variety of sound, but also of quality, and, for the most part, is the weakest part of the disc. Most of Royal Paint..., however, is a direct, unclouded statement by a person whose genuine goal of love and understanding results in music which is far more forward-looking and engaging that much of the tripe made in the name of such sentiments.
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