Kairos Creature Club /US

KAIROS CREATURE CLUB
 

KCC is a project put together by Lena Simon (La Luz) and Glenn Michael Van Dyke (BOYTOY).
After years of playing in bands confined by genre, this project is definitively an exploration of music.
KCC is fueled by collaboration, seeking out individuals who are moved by the moment and subsequently capturing the minutiae when different combinations of artistry and creativity collide. Simon, born and raised in Los Angeles studied composition at Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, and Van Dyke, born in northern California and raised in Florida, studied audio engineering at New York University. The two have toured both individually and together with a myriad of acts, in a myriad of places, ultimately infecting them with a fever dream about a project that knows no borders. Both Simon and Van Dyke now live in Jacksonville, Florida where they put on an annual music festival called Winterland.

While the project as a whole is about kismet and synergy, this new S/T full length (out June 7 on Greenway Records) has Simon and Van Dyke taking the reins as producers and flexing as songwriters. In the wake of habitual acquiescence, the duo felt it was important to realize the album’s song concepts from an individual voice. In turn, this record serves as a measure of growth, a moment for the duo, individually, to say, "I am enough and I choose you!" rather than rely on broader collaboration as a crutch. It's a record about conflict, catharsis and indulgence. It's vulnerable, and is posited as bait to entice future members.