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We are delighted to announce the release of our third album.


‘The Effervescent Travellers’ will be released digitally on all download/streaming platforms on 14th August.


The track list is as follows

1.) High Rise

2.) Extreme Push Cycle Race

3.) Sur La Dordogne

4.) The Almighty Faff

5.) Mont Blanc

6.) Fred’s Motorhome Extravaganza

7.) Kinky Joe’s Steamboat trip down the River Taff

As can be suggested from the titles, the theme of the album is all about travel in the most vibrant and enthusiastic sense of the word, either inspired from experiences we’ve had or silly scenarios we came up with in our heads!


We look forward to sharing the full album with you.
Additionally, we have a live set all ready to go as soon as shows are allowed to start happening again. Once we are on the road we will also be announcing the release of the physical version of the album.


In the meantime, you can expect to see livestream performances of the new songs after they are released.

Peace!

KW

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We are delighted to share our new single with you.

Extreme Push Cycle Race

Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/6znIbs8AqStiMMzqFzU604…

Apple Music link: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1519575933

This is definitely one of the silliest and most ridiculous tracks we have done. It was so much fun to put together!

Here are the people involved in the making of this song.

Ryan – Guitars and Brass Arrangement

Miffy – Bass Guitar

Jiffy – Drums

Aled Peter Lloyd – Cameo appearance on the shaker! 😁

Andrew Bishop – Recording and Mixing engineer

AC Brass

Samuel Robertson – Tenor Saxophone
Russel Evans – Trombone
Laurence Collier – Trumpet

Steffan Pringle – Producer/Engineer/Mixer – Mastering

Dale Johnson – Artwork

We look forward to sharing news of the full album release soon.

KW

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We are delighted to announce the release of ‘High Rise’, the single from our upcoming 2020 album.

Below are links to the music on Spotify and Apple. (The single is also available on all other streaming services)

Spotify

Apple

http://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1505748377

Below is a video of the three of us playing through the new track in different locations.

Here is a little information from Ryan about the song

‘High Rise came from a guitar riff I had when I was something like 14 years old. It’s taken about 13 years for me to do something with it and being surrounded by massive skyscrapers in Dubai gave me the inspiration for the title and to finish writing the song. In essence, I wanted the technical scope of what we are doing musically to be reminiscent of some of the amazing post-modern architecture that is appearing in cities, it was great fun putting this together and I cannot wait to do it live when we are able to play live again!’

Here are the credits for ‘High Rise’

Ryan Elliott – Guitars, Moog

Jonathan Griffiths – Drums

Mathew Griffiths – Bass Guitar

Recording and Mixing Engineer – Andrew Bishop

Mastering Engineer – Steffan Pringle

Artwork – Dale Johnson

We look forward to sharing the rest of the album with you.

Kinky Wizzards

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We are still in lockdown in Wales and unable to get together to play which is just rubbish!

Nevertheless we managed to put together a cover of Rush’s ‘Leave that thing alone’ from their 1994 album ‘Counterpoints’.

We recorded ourselves using our phones and after much kicking and screaming with IMovie, Jiff managed to put it altogether! Glad to share something with you during these tough times. Stay safe!

KW

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Despite everything negative about 2020, we pressed on with ambition and energy and were determined to not let external factors stop us.

So we are proud that we released our album, and so pleased that it has been received by you in the way that it has. Thank you for tuning in and enjoying ‘The Effervescent Travellers’.

We desperately miss playing live shows but in spite of that, we have gotten together to rehearse when we could, put some videos together and are planning a livestream event in the new year. (which amazingly, anyone, anywhere in the world will be able to watch).

This pandemic is not over yet, and we share our respects to all of you out there who have been and are still being impacted.

With hope for health and peace of mind in 2021, we wish everyone a Happy New Year.

Peace,

Kinky Wizzards

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As a result of the pandemic, all of our plans to go out and play live went down the drain.

Subsequently we decided to grab any opportunity we could to get all three of us in a room and play some tunes live! Here is a live performance of ‘Chocolate Teapot’ taken from our second album ‘Quirky Musings’ (2017)

Ryan Elliott – Guitar

Matthew Griffiths – Bass Guitar

Jonathan Griffiths – Drums

Hannah Lamb – Cameras

Andrew Bishop – Engineering, Mixing and Editing

To hear the studio version of the track and the rest of the album you can stream it via:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5oJHfI…

http://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1216…

You can also buy a physical copy of the album at https://kinkywizzards.bandcamp.com/al…

https://www.facebook.com/TheKinkyWizz…

https://www.instagram.com/kinkywizzar…

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The entire process of recording our new album was a lot of fun, it was also hard work and the hours we put in did lead us to becoming slightly delirious at times as well! Here is a video that shows us recording ‘Extreme Push Cycle Race’ along with the mistakes and moments where we went a bit mad!

You can hear the album via the following links Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/album/7ESFER…

Apple Music – http://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1523…

Bandcamp – https://kinkywizzards.bandcamp.com/