Back in May, Brooklyn Vegan had noticed a description of a behind-the-scenes photo from an upcoming performance series mentioned a Kyp Malone solo project named Rain Machine—and Rain Machine was opening for Seattleite avant-trio The Dead Science at the Knitting Factory the following night. Malone has performed on his own for years but never under an alias.
Two weeks ago, part of that aforementioned performance went up online (and is embedded below). An acoustic take on an innominate ballad lyrically not far removed oft-pensive complexity of TVOTR noted by Malone’s peculiar timbre. Not many have seemed to notice.
RAIN MACHINE aka Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio (dublab VisionVersion) from dublab on Vimeo.
In between then and now, there was an additional Rain Machine performance—opening for TVOTR compadres Celebration at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in July. A performance of tunes that one blogger described as something along the lines of “thoughtful Americana rock”—more folksy-ish material.
Also gone unnoticed is an Observer profile of TVOTR that explicitly says there is a Rain Machine record on the way. As has a bio of Malone from last fall that said Malone was “preparing to record an album of solo works.” All this gives a rough timeline of the past year being the recording date for the record.
On an tangentially related note, Tunde Adebimpe is in the amazing Rachel Getting Married, which you should go go go to see. Now for David Andrew Sitek to release some sort of Timbaland Presents Shock Value minus the utter suckage with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, David Bowie, Scarlett Johannson, Massive Attack, Celebration, and others. As anyone who had the displeasure of listening to Anywhere I Lay My Head, Sitek can miss—but he cannot miss that much, right?
In other TVOTR news, the new site redesign is lovelily web-two-point-yo. And the second Dear Science webisode (which can be found in the media section) is…something.
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