Ryan Rudolph-Tenor Sax, Alto Sax, Clarinet, Melodica, Keyboard, Percussion. Ryan is a man shrouded in mystery, he hails from Gwinnett county as do all the members of the Kingrat and certainly likes to freak out on the tenor sax and occasionally alto, even more occasionally both in tandem.
Famous for his blood curdling stare, love of later John Coltrane records and interest in esoteric self organizing principles, like the pocket system, in which the participant places items categorically and consistently in the same pockets of his/her pants in order to overide the tendencies towards losing said items in the confusion and chaos of the physio-spiritual universe, this guy's musical star is on the rise.
Alfredo "Julian MorenaGuitar, Percussion, Trumpet. Julian is a gifted song writer and classically trained Pianist. Invisible Connections, to hear his compositions.
Matt Gregg Mansfield- Bass, Mixing and Programming, Samples, Kaoss Pad II and III, Keys, 12 stringed Guitar, darbuka and Drum Kit. Matt has immersed himself in everything he can dig up on the subject of roots music and DUB, taken many influences and developed his own recipe for dub reggae in creating KingRat.
KingRat-- namesake, central deity in band's religon, booking and refreshments. An ancient spiritual presence summoned when the five members mentioned above are present in one central location and play a certain kind of chord extension(which will for public safety remain unnamed) after midnight while chanting "rattus rattus" in tandem.
Now KingRat welcomes the super bad percussionist and conguero Camilo whom has been jamming with KingRat since Sam fortuitously introduced him to the band. He really gets down on some Afro-Cuban and Latin rhythms and adds an arsenal of sounds to the riddim section, propelling the groove to the next level of funky!
Influences
DUB MASTERS- King Tubby, Erroll Thompson, BILL LASWELL, Lee Perry Scientist, Prince Jammy, Mad Proffessor
DRUMMERS-Horsemouth Wallace, Sly Dunbar, Carlton Santa Davis, Lloyd Knibbs, Carlton Barrett, Brother Benbow, Lloyd Tin Leg Adams, Idris Mohammed, Bernard Purdie, Clyde Stubblefield, Jabo Starks, Billy Martin, Joseph"Zigaboo" Modeliste,Elvin Jones,Art Blakey, Levon Helm, Tony Allen...ah too many
BASSISTS- Charles Mingus,Lloyd Brevett, Jackie Jackson, Leroy Sibbles, Robbie Shakespear, Aston Barrett, Boris Gardner, Lloyd Parks, Clinton Fearon, Bill Laswell, Ian Lewis, George Fully Fullwood, Bootsy Collins, Paul Chambers, Dave Holland, Michael Henderson, Cachao, Paul Simonon.
PRODUCERS-Vivian Jackson, Niney the Observer, Bunny Lee, Amon Tobin, DJ Spooky,Gussie Clarke, Herman Chin Loy, Leonard Chin, Coxson Dodd, Prince Buster, Augustus Pablo, The Hookim Brothers, The Mighty Two,
MUSICIANS-All of the various incarnations of the Studio One house bands-Skatalites,Sound Dimension, Soul Brothers, etc, Augustus Pablo, The Upsetters, The Aggrovators, The Revolutionaries, Word Sound and Power, Soul Syndicate, The Inner Circle Band, Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus, Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, Jackie Mittoo, Ernest Ranglin, Earl Chinna Smith, Booker T and the MGs, The Meters, The JBs, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Parliament/Funkadelic,The Basque Dub Foundation, MMW, Fela Kuti, Culture, The Gladiators, The Abbyssinians, The Mighty Diamonds, The Wailing Souls, The Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Band, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, AC Jobim
Sounds Like
Bourgeois dissillusionment with living in a society severely lacking in soul , creating funky reggae and attempting to not sound as white and imitative as we are.
KingRat is an instrumental Reggae group from Atlanta and the brain child of Matt Gregg Mansfield, playing in a style influenced by roots reggae dub circa the mid 1970's- but with more of a focus on extended improvisation, long instrumental reggae versions with dub excursions, extended experimentations by melodica, Tenor Saxophone, organ and synths riding acrest a wave of undulating riddims and large ambient sonic spaces. In order to recreate the feeling and process of Dub remixing, the band is all routed into a sound board complete with reverb and delay units and tweaked and mixed live by Matt as he plays bass. This gives a certain totality to the sound and produces the unique effect of allowing the entire mix to be continously mutated and streched, with instruments dropping out and then returning, drastically shifting the emphasis of the different elements of the music. There are many styles that influence KingRat's rhythms besides reggae... touches of funk, ska, rhythm and blues, various latin styles and Jungle pop up in KingRat's set.
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WHATUP Y'ALL? I LIVED THERE IN ATL. FOR 20YRS., IM BACK TO NORTH BRAZIL NOW.. SAW YOU GUYS PLAY A FEW TIMES AT THE 5SPOT AND LIKED IT ALOT.. I CAN SAY ONE THING, SERIOUSLY.. IF IT DOES NOT WORK OUT FOR KINGRAT IN THE STATES.. IM %100 SURE KINGRAT WOULD REACH BIGGER SUCCESS HERE IN NORTH BRAZIL.. THINGS ARE REAL CHEAP HERE TOO, REAL CHEAP...
fellows. gettin itchy. needs to re-up some rat action for realz. its been like 7 or 8 months since we jammed or anything. or some shows to come watch, somethin. giganto bands notwithstanding ga reggae is BONE DRY while the gh records and the stain is on tour. you tellin me i gotta go see BPM in f'n ALABAMA to get my fix? dont make me cry like a girl and embarrass you cuz i totally will.
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His foundation is in the mountains. the most high loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of jacob . Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of yah.Selah I WILL MAKE MENTION OF RAHAB AND AND BABYLON to them the know me:behold Philistia and tyre,with ETHIOPIA this man was born there. and of Zion it shall be said,this and that man was born in her:and the highest himself shall establish her. THE MOST HIGH shall count,when he writeth up the people,that this man was born there.Selah. AS WELL THE SINGERS AS THE PLAYERS ON INSTRUMENTS SHALL BETHERE:ALL MY SPINGS ARE IN THEE. PSALM 87
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