February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

Kim o the Concrete Jungle (@kimotcj)

progress: 16

winner!
joined: January 9 2006
location: Australia
website: www.mysongcast.com/artist/kim_o_the_concrete_jungle
influences: Old blues and Jazz, rock, punk, 80s underground, truck loads of electronic and music gear that I indulge myself with, video games, zombies, Lee and Thurston, and all the art college dropouts I listened to growing up.

Bio

I've been playing guitar, writing songs, and recording since I was sixteen. Between FAWM and 50/90 this has sort of gone a bit critical.

I'm also in a band called The Blues Convicts, that's coming along quite nicely. Here's House Of the Rising Sun, as recorded at a recent gig:
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http://www.mediafire.com/?na29ntehz5sdodl

We've got another gig right in the middle of FAWM, on the 3rd of February at the Empire Hotel in Annandale. So if any of you happen to be in Sydney, you're welcome to come along. I'll be the guy in the fedora.

I've decided to do a proper themed album this year. Here's the cover art I made:

http://www.filefreak.com/files/862816_gw1zu/KCJ-09N.jpg

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As of the 10th of March 2012, I've got my FAWM album available on bandcamp: http://kimotcj.bandcamp.com/album/monument

I thought the recordings were good enough to make it a permanent thing.

2012 Songs

1	The Caveman Likes To Rock	22 comments // 3 months ago
2	Shaman Dance	3 comments // 3 months ago
3	Monument	4 comments // 3 months ago
4	Lightning Storm	5 comments // 3 months ago
5	Emergence	1 comment // 2 months ago
6	Interval 1 - Fast Forward To the Future	2 comments // 2 months ago
7	Journey To the Moon	11 comments // 2 months ago
8	UFO	1 comment // 2 months ago
9	Machine Life	1 comment // 2 months ago
10	Genetically Engineered Lifeform	1 comment // 2 months ago
11	Interval 2 - The Past Meets the Future	1 comment // 2 months ago
12	Eleventh Hour (with elainedimasi)	7 comments // 2 months ago
13	Caveman In the Future	3 comments // 2 months ago
14	I Don't Miss It	2 comments // 2 months ago
15	The Demon Depths	3 comments // 2 months ago
16	DNA	2 comments // 2 months ago

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swampjaw 2 months ago

Yow! -- thanks much for all the comments! While I've got a ways yet to go, I think I'm making progress, and very much appreciate all the help and encouragement. And you're right; stand up straight and belt it out. Just have to figure out how to get everyone out of the house, so I don't feel like a dork!
mattblick 2 months ago

The Banana splits is EXACTLY where I was heading and yes, it is your turn next!
iocanepower 2 months ago

Thanks for the listen, KotCJ!
bking 2 months ago

Cool album art Kim O!
explodingmary 2 months ago

no cheating, here!
elainedimasi 2 months ago

Woot! You can't fail FAWM!
caterwauler 3 months ago

Hello, good to see you! Thanks for the comment
Well, I'm a regular gamer, I bet it has an influence on my work...
dreamscuba 3 months ago

Thanks very much for your comments on "All Out of Puff"...I will have to try and write a little more blues...
rosedeschamps 3 months ago

Sweet deal! Thank you
musicbykatie 3 months ago

ooohhhhh i like your guitar <3
calumcarlyle 3 months ago

hey Kim, i am totally unfamiliar with many Aussie bands of the 80s, but i have heard maybe one or two songs by many, many of those bands. Your stuff does often remind me of a lot of that stuff that i have heard but me trying to remember band names would be futile. I will put more listening time in to Hunters and Collectors and Hoodoo Gurus at some point. I'm a lot more familiar with Radio Birdman and Kuepper era Saints though, and the Oils, but Australia has tons of great music that the rest of the world doesn't really know about... and you're another example of that!
taylortay 3 months ago

Mm, pointy guitars aren't my thing either, but I have a mate who is very much into Vai/Satch style instrumental guitar stuff and he's got a really nice bright yellow Ibanez. He encouraged me to get this one, but as you say, it is pretty, it doesn't look out of place as an electric or as an acoustic.
taylortay 4 months ago

Howdy Kim! I ended up getting the Ibanez Montage hybrid you recommended to me on a thread here some time a while ago, and I'm loving it. It's not a bad electric (the tone is much nicer than my cheapo Strat) and the acoustic is definitely a great additional weapon in my arsenal. Can't wait to hear your stuff this February!
dustymason 4 months ago

ready-go