"a thousand pictures to take your place and the sound of your voice I found on tape..."
Kowloon's latest "A Thousand Picture" (and a follow up to his debut 2021 album "Come Over") is both beautiful and kind of sad. Don't get me wrong, it is not maudlin in the least but there is a sense of loss in between the pretty textured synth sounds and chill beats, "you're a child but for a minute then it breaks your heart" and other words sung with a sense of resolute understanding talks about how fleeting time is and getting lost and even never finding your way back. Once again, Kowloon builds his sonic universes at his home studio in Los Angeles playing all instruments.
"A Thousand Picture" has a cross generational sense when it comes it's musical narrative. The thoughts, broadly drawn are vague enough to be easily relatable to anyone. The gentle dip into it's melancholy can be refreshing though because looking in reflective pools have a way of calming your spirit and, in the end, feeling more hopeful after the gaze.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Kowloon is a musician and filmmaker from Los Angeles, California. His debut album, ‘Come Over’, was written, performed, recorded and mixed in his home-studio in the industrial outskirts of the city. Blending vintage synths, drum machines, and bubbling bass lines with vocals inspired equally by The Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, and Sly Stone, ‘Come Over’ is 35 minutes of danceable love songs - albeit love songs set in a time of digital malaise and looming ecological catastrophe, with anxious, dread-filled lyrics that are as timely as they are post-apocalyptic.
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Kowloon is a musician and filmmaker from Los Angeles, California. His debut album, ‘Come Over’, was written, performed, recorded and mixed in his home-studio in the industrial outskirts of the city. Blending vintage synths, drum machines, and bubbling bass lines with vocals inspired equally by The Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, and Sly Stone, ‘Come Over’ is 35 minutes of danceable love songs - albeit love songs set in a time of digital malaise and looming ecological catastrophe, with anxious, dread-filled lyrics that are as timely as they are post-apocalyptic.
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Kowloon, Los Angeles, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, avant pop, indie rock, melancholy, somber pop, evocative vocals, producer, home studio, "A Thousand Picture", debut album "Come Over",
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