| Member Since | 12/8/2004 | | Band Website | www.khoral.net | | Influences | Khoral's music is a subtle mix of electronica and pop influences - the Velvet Underground-style distorsion of "Neon cities, faster", the bright guitars of later Beatles on "Invisible chords" and the glitchy beats underlying the folk simplicity of "1978, lower".
Production bears resemblance to the electroacoustic sophistication of Blonde Redhead's last works ("Special attraction", "Way to grieve", inspired by Emily Dickinson's poetry), the lo-fi darkness of Stina Nordenstam ("Lotus kitten") and some melodic funk reminiscent of the Talking Heads and Peter Gabriel ("Let it come down", "Life among the spiders", "Crash me like the years", "Animal fraud").
The « Animal Fraud » sound is the result of a constant experiment on textures and words. Music and lyrics evolve from a chaotic process, melodies and verses being written and recomposed over weeks or months to shape the complex structure of tracks like "Roadmaps for the bugs" or "Alien homestead".
Like in Burroughs's work, new meanings emerge from the juxtaposition of layers and ideas. Sometimes there's a theme, most of the time it's a canvas of impressions and imaginary portraits, fragments of thoughts, about time and relationships, something like a buddhist cut-up. The underlying concept is that coherence isn't a virtue of creation - a large part of its beauty proceeds from shadow and mystery. | | Sounds Like | arcade fire, art of noise, autechre, francis bacon, the beatles, belle and sebastian, bethesda softworks, david bowie, tim buckley, william seward burroughs, tim burton, kate bush, broadcast, john cale, johnny cash, charles chaplin, vic chesnutt, emil cioran, leonard cohen, john coltrane, billy corgan, chris cornell, david cronenberg, taisen deshimaru, philip kindred dick, anne dickinson, dôgen zenji, fred mc dowell, bob dylan, matt elliott, maurits cornelis escher, donald fagen, david fincher, flotation toy warning, peter gabriel, terry gilliam, topper harley, jimi hendrix, son house, peter jackson, skip james, robert johnson, franz kafka, takeshi kitano, stanley kubrick, bruce lee, howard philip lovecraft, george lucas, david lynch, groucho marx, freddie mercury, monty python, fox mulder, bill murray, nagarjuna, randy newman, nico, stina nordenstam, edward norton, chuck palahniuk, brendan perry, terry pratchett, lou reed, alain resnais, trent reznor, sam and max, anne sexton, hj simpson, robert smith, gordon sumner, michael stipe, mia doi todd, georg trakl, tsinam, yoko tsuno, nigel tufnel, sun tzu, tom waits, andy warhol, sigourney weaver, virginia woolf, john williams, robert wyatt, neil young, dr zoidberg | | Type of Label | Major |
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