Hello, Kay Bonya here from Texas recording project, Kable, which uses all sorts of different instruments and sounds to create the many moods of kable--rock-experimental-folk-psych-progressive-instrumental...
Discography, all On Fleece Records:
"Chlorophyll" 1995,
"Tardy all the Time" 1998,
"3" 2001,
"Boar of the Forest" 2006,......KABLE CD's IN REVIEW:......DEEP WATER ACRES REVIEW of "CHLOROPHYLL" The debut release by Kable called Chlorophyll (on the Fleece label) crams 17 gloriously messed-up song-things into 42 minutes, and wraps it in the finest magic-marker brain-purge art-spew I've ever had the confusion to witness. Every once in a while, something needs to come along that just totally blows out the pipes, cleans and purges the system with terminal efficiency, aggressively recontextualizes your perceptions: folks, allow me to present the least lucid acid-drenched debut since perhaps the first Red Crayola album. None of the short songs are alike in any noticeable way, but all of them are instantly recognizable by the indelible stamp of an obsessively warped personality (all supposedly the work of a single individual, one Kay Bonya). This stuff is even more violently in-your-melting-face messed-up than the early Buttholes, without the punk gratuitousness and with a much wider textural bandwidth. Among other things, you got your echoey-SunRa percussion, you got strummy near-singalongs, you got huge exploding blobs of multicolored toxic goo, you got vicious backward-tape loops that make me stop breathing, creepy multi-speed distorted voices, fingerpicking banjo, cheesy organ, chanting . . . it's totally . . . um . . . everything, like . . . there, over by the . . . wait, I can't . . . everything treated, distorted, fun-house mirrored into an infinite bad trip, arms reaching for you out of your own forehead, faces talking from the wallpaper, all your friends turning slowly into lizards. Any open-minded fan of things truly consciousness-altered needs to hear this. Geez, maybe I need to move south (KM).......... DREAM MAGAZINE REVIEW of "TARDY ALL THE TIME" "This one-woman band is Kay Bonya of Houston, Texas playing a multitude of instruments and sounds, while she sings these eerily woozy songs that alternate between stoney floating reveries and compulsively weird Residential mutations. Plucked and strummed on old banjo, guitar organics as well as tipsy staggering electronic primitive chug-folk constructions. Deeply otherworldly psychedelic folk music, that has a tendancy to drift into an inner zone of slightly menacing twists and turns. A dark funhouse ride through the inner recesses of Kay's mind and musicality. The closest sonic kin is probably T.F.U.L. 282, both merging the folk-instrumental with the experimentalism of the psychedelicised. Kay also did the wild artwork that covers this release." - DM.......... BROKEN FACE REVIEW of "KABLE 3"(condensed): "It's been three years since we last heard from Houstonite Kay Bonya a.k.a. Kable, but the comeback (not that she's been missing in action in the first place) proves to be as worthwhile as its two predecessors. On "3" Bonya continues along the same reckless folk-psych trajectory as on "Tardy All The Time" and "Chlorophyll," but here she takes things to an even deeper (or more extreme) level. There are skeletons of folk songs that in most of the tracks work as some sort of platform, but to different degrees these structures are buried in psychedelic instrumentation and production... wildly orbiting, fuzzy guitars...organically flowing synth...merges cavernous dripping synth sounds with glorious psych guitar...an the hypnotic instrumental closer "1918," as its meandering guitar lines and distinctive bass meet with distant violin scrape it strikes me how strong the feeling of isolation is within the album's 57 minutes but not only that, I realize that this is Kable's best one yet and as a result something you need." - Mats Gustafsson.......... FREE CITY MEDIA REVIEW of "BOAR OF THE FOREST"(condensed): Kay Bonya has been making music under the band name Kable for more than a decade. Kable's unique sound is built on the interplay of guitar, mandolin, banjo, keyboards, percussion and various instruments devised by Kay herself...the new CD picks up more or less where the last one left off, though the arrangements seem a little more densely layered and there are more electronic elements added to Kable's trademark Texas country-folk/psychedelic/experimental style. Boar Of The Forest...starting off at full strength with the heavy riffing of "You Can Come Here". The angular funk/punk rock of "Beneath The Sea" reminds me of early Gang Of Four, but the effect is taken in a different direction by Kay Bonya's smooth vocals...lovely melodic tape reverse and then grows into an easy-stumming bluegrass song intertwined with a meandering psychedelic tangent...spectacular electric guitar sound that falls somewhere between Steve Hillage and Thurston Moore. "Just A Domino" (which also appears on Free City's Further Adventures… CD) is a frantic blast of hypnotic electronica...Alien rhythms, disembodied vocals and over-distorted instruments...Another song with an especially interesting arrangement is "The Shed", in which an e-bow guitar plays against banjo picking while the bass carries the melody. The closing piece, "Transmission", is a meditation of gentle jazz guitar floating over a bed of electronic tones. Kable's particular impact comes from Kay Bonya's ability to combine highly original vivid musical settings with honestly conveyed emotion. Boar Of The Forest is a satisfying next step, full of new ideas and growth of artistic expression. Also see Free City's Kable interview page..END OF REVIEWS..............previous to Kable, I played in Retardo Al Dante with Redo Makeshift and J.A. Bobbitt. Previous to that I played in Splatter with Redo, Ron Brandon, & Jeff Walker...........
visit kablekaybonya.com for more info on Kable cds......BANDS WHO RECORDED AT DEEP DOT STUDIO, we need your help. We're building a Deep Dot page at the Kable site. I'm trying to make a listing of the bands and recording dates from the track sheets. I'll be adding cover art from releases, pictures from the era, links to your sites, etc. Contact me if you have any of these items for me to add.
Find out more at the Kable site & check out the new Deep Dot page (with additional music snippets coming soon).......kablekaybonya.com
LOVE LOVE LOVE ! What you are doing. Completely instant fans of yours. Thankyou for your comment about us and we're happy you are enjoying our little band history. It needs updating to tell the truth as we are up to lots of new things shiny. Keep the brilliance coming and keep us up to date please. Although we will be back here often. Bye for Now. Have FUN Dv Und Schmoadie ;) :)
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