Multi-instrumentalist and underground weirdo music king Kevin Rutmanis (Cows, Tomahawk, ex-Melvins), Kevin Rutmanis announces two new albums releasing on, February, 17th, 2023. Crafted following a period of isolation both albums feature different aspects of Kevin’s creativity. The new album from hepa.Titus, unEat as well as Dunn with Rutmanis – Crackpot Whorehead details, as well as pre-order infor can be found below.
Regarding hepa.Titus, Rutmanis commented:
‘We sent the trax back and forth between bandmembers’ – explains Rutmanis: ‘I did a lot of editing at home and then sent the songs on to pSEUDO bEAST(known for his work with Dead Cross)’. A different way of working allowed two masterminds to focus on the arrangements and editing, ‘it really opened up the possibilities!’ explains Kevin.
“As usual, Mow Skwoz did the cover art. She’s our in-house genius. Jochen of “Rock is Hell” label hand screened all the covers. Very limited and I dare say, attractive LP package!”
Secondly, the newest collaborative LP of DUNN with RUTMANIS – ‘Crackpot Whorehead’, recorded with a fellow bass-player Trevor Dunn(Mr. Bungle, Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant, Tomahawk, TheMelvins). “Trevor and I live on opposite coasts, but we didn’t let that stop us. Sorry world!” stresses Kevin, talking about the nature of the collaboration – musical equivalent of Dadaistic-experiments. Rutmanis marks: “One of us would record whatever popped into our little heads, and then send the tracks back and forth (usually only twice) until we were satisfied, or lost interest”.
“As usual, Mow Skwoz did the cover art. Trevor did the collage on the back-cover. Jochen of “Rock is Hell” label hand screened all the covers. Very limited and I daresay, attractive LP package”
Pre-order both albums:
‘unEat’ is coming out this February,17 – pre-order here. Or via Rock Is Hell Records(EU Only) – here. For US Orders – DM @mmowskwozz (IG).
‘Crackpot Whorehead’ is coming out this February,17 – pre-order here. Or via Rock Is Hell Records(EU Only) – here. For US Orders – DM @mmowskwozz (IG).
https://hepa-titus.bandcamp.com/merch
https://rockishell.bigcartel.com/
hepa.Titus – unEat
Tracklist:
1.El Ray Vis
2.Broken Yolk
3.‘n’ Brew It Clean
4.Dead Hands
5.Doe Deer
6.New Dizzies
7.Bolus
8.Iknowi’mwrong
Bio:
The rich tradition of delta blues meets modern oral surgical techniques in hepa.Titus’ most recent full-length release, the bewitching, beguiling “UNEAT”. Slithering bass lines envelop and enfold like beefy anacondas; glassy shards of guitar variously claw against the surface, or drill to the center of tender nerves; all toa thudding rhythm, variously jagged, halting, and propulsive. And the singers rant about something, sounding for all the world like street corner schizophrenics declaiming and howling end-times prophecies through a haze of Night Train and methadone. Even a cursory listen to the album’s lauded video tunes, “El Ray Vis” and “Doe Deer” is a first-order face-pounding that would induce screaming amidst the meek and tasteless. This, dear friends, is state-of-the-art rock’n’roll for the year 2023: Blunt, irritable, opposing.
CREDITS:
All music by Paul Christensen(Qui), Sterling Riley(Orphan Goggles,Cunts) and Kevin Rutmanis.
Mixing and advanced sound image by pSEUDO BEAST.
Mastered by Bernd Hainrauch.
Artwork by Mow Skwoz.
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Dunn with Rutmanis – Crackpot Whorehead
Tracklist:
1.Bird Finger
- Irving Fine goes to Louisville
- Miles David’s Willie Nelson
- Mime Om
- Morton
- I am Erika
- Win Een Kind
- Rickety Ric
- 5 sacs
Bio:
Meet the Seals & Crofts of a new dark age. Hot on the heels of their rapturously-received and Novello Award-winning 2021 release ‘Glen Krupa World’s Great Drummer’ bassists and multi-instrumentalists Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant, Tomahawk, Melvins Lite) and Kevin Rutmanis (Cows, Melvins, Tomahawk) have again joined forces to create a lite-jazz tour de force, “Crack Pot Nhore Head”. Abetted by percussionist Lee Afentopoulos, the duo weaves a silken blend of buttery evil, rich in languid menace. The breakout single “Mime Om” seems torn from the very larynx of War’s “Low Rider” before being drenched in bitter schizoid drippings.Taken as a whole, “Crack Pot” flays the very idea of soul-sinuous, insinuating, oozing, bleating. It’s an out-of-control bus barreling through the parade of music, backing up and doing it again and again.
‘Crackpot Whorehead’ is coming out this February,17 – pre-order here. Or via Rock Is Hell Records(EU Only) – here. For US Orders – DM @mmowskwozz (IG).
CREDITS:
music by Trevor Dunn and Kevin Rutmanis.
Trevor: dogs, wet, tin cans
Kevin: same Lee Afentopoulos: drums on “5 sacs“ and “Mime Om*
Mixing and advanced sound image by pSEUDO BEAST.
Mastered by Bernd Heinrauch.
Artwork by Mow Skwoz.