THE KENEALLIST: Exclusive Keneally Nonkertompf release on Bandcamp tomorrow!
Happy day to you!
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We’re gonna party like it’s 1999! Exowax Recordings will be increasing our Bandcamp album roster by one title (or two, really) tomorrow, Bandcamp Friday, February 6, with the addition of NONKERTOMPF/NONKERTALK.
NONKERTOMPF/NONKERTALK COMES TO
BANDCAMP TOMORROW. REJOICE! DO IT!
This link to Nonkertompf/Nonkertalk goes live at 11:59 p.m. PST tonight, but now you can click here for a bunch more MK titles…
Hurray, I say! Nonkertompf is a very important album for me.
This Bandcamp release is the digital equivalent to the original 1999 Nonkertompf special edition. That very limited issue (500 copies, as I recall) came packaged with a second CD, called Nonkertalk.
Nonkertompf is a 73-minute album, containing 35 instrumental pieces featuring me playing all the instruments. It was the first album released by Exowax Recordings, soon after Scott Chatfield and I formed the label in 1999, and was the result of Scott asking me if I harbored any long-held dreams about albums I’d always wanted to make. I instantly thought back to an album I’d first envisioned at age 12 – all instrumental, me on all instruments, and very eccentric. I was already into weird progressive music at that age, and I knew the album would reflect that love.
I also knew that I wanted to call it Nonkertompf, which was just a made-up word, signifying nothing, but somehow it captured the feeling of the music I wanted on this album. I even had the basic cover design (black & white close-up portrait, only part of the head showing) figured out when I was 12. So I’d carried the whole vibe of this album, musically and visually, around with me for about a quarter-century by the time Scott asked me about my “dream album.”
Nonkertalk is primarily occupied by an interview between me and Scott Chatfield about the album. Scott takes me on a deep dive into each of the 35 pieces, and given that we’d just finished making the album when we did the interview, all the details were very fresh in our minds, so this is as thorough a dissection of Nonkertompf as you could get. Dividing up the interview segments are pieces of music from the sessions that didn’t make the album proper, and appearing underneath the dialogue are numerous stripped-down mixes from the multitracks.
An hypnotic shot from the short “ClickFlick” video included in the Bandcamp exclusive Nonkertompf/Nonkertalk Bandcamp release.
Also included in the original physical edition was “ClickFlick,” a short film by J Warner documenting the making of the song “Click” at Double Time, which was embedded as a movie file on the original Nonkertalk CD (practically hidden there, actually – we didn’t make a lot of noise at the time about the fact that it was on there). For this Bandcamp edition, “ClickFlick” is included in your download folder, along with a pdf containing all the original artwork, scans of CD faces, a promo postcard, a hype sticker – it’s got it all!
(Saying this again, in case it’s still news to anyone: tomorrow, Bandcamp Friday, is the day when Bandcamp doesn’t take a slice of profits on downloads, all proceeds go to artists and labels. We appreciate your support of our Bandcamp Friday releases in the past – Bandcamp purchases really make a difference for independent artists in the current cultural landscape. Thank you!)
THE WINNER OF THE “FOR A SONG” CONTEST IS…SHOHEI SAWAKAWA!
In early January, the number was drawn for the winner of December’s “For a Song” contest. I drew it out of the very hat for which the hat. album was named – and we’re delighted to announce that Shohei Sawakawa of Japan is the winner! His prize is that I’m going to write and record a song inspired by him. He’s already sent me many heartfelt words which are going to prove highly inspirational for me in the creation of the song. I’m really looking forward to making it!
Here, now: look at this video featuring me, Scott Chatfield, and Chris Opperman, documenting the very moment the number was drawn, and multiple moments on either side of that moment:
NEW MIKE KENEALLY/MARCELO RADULOVICH RELEASE FOR BANDCAMP FRIDAY: SATURDAY
Saturday, the eighth album released by me and Marcelo in a little over two years’ time, is in some ways the most left-field of our albums so far, particularly in terms of its form; whereas all the previous albums are made up of multiple, often quite short selections, Saturday consists, in its entirety, of a single, just-under-22-minute-long musical construction.
The piece is highly organic, developing in intuitive and improvisational ways, but the ultimate result has a composed quality, undulating through multiple moods as it progresses. It flirts with aspects of modern classical, fractured dance rhythms, old-school prog, exploratory jazz fusion, Musique concrète, etc. etc. etc.
Saturday is a highly individual entry in the Keneally/Radulovich discography (which now consists of six different “day-of-the-week” instrumental releases, Monday through Saturday, plus two albums of vocal material, BASK and BASK 2. BASK 3 and Sunday are currently deep in the works). By the end of 2026, our collaboration will comprise a ten-album collection – for now, please check out the Saturday album on Bandcamp Friday. You can browse from all our releases now at the Titicacaman Records Bandcamp page.
WE THANK YOU PROFUSELY!
It’s true!! Thank you!! Profusely!!!
Love,
Nonkertompf/Nonkertalk goes live at 11:59 p.m. PST Thursday (tonight), but you can click here now for many more delectable MK albums…
