Chris Weeks Music

Featuring links to the music of Chris Weeks, aka Kingbastard aka C\/\/\/\ (CWM) aka Myheadisaballoon.

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Listen/purchase: The Grey Ghost Of Morning by Chris Weeks

‘The Grey Ghost of Morning' is an experimental/ambient record which was written in a seven week period, during April-June 2017. It is a personal body of work, highly influenced by my having to come back to the UK and be away from my fiancée in the USA during that time. My sleep patterns, altered from the time-difference, never truly got back to normal. I was haunted by insomnia and was writing and recording well into the early hours of morning. By this time, the hazy morning light had already began to stream into my room. Being that I'm in Wales, more often than not, this light was accompanied by a thick, languid grey mist, rolling-in over the Preseli Mountains, near to where I live. This regular occurrence determined the title of the album.

The Grey Ghost of Morning is a body of ghostly soundscapes and melancholy mind-states. The majority of the album was created using different guitars and guitar-playing techniques. I used Acoustic, Classical/Nylon-strung Electro-Acoustic, Electric, Bass, Lap-Steel and 12-string Electro-Acoustic guitars across the album. You can hear the varying techniques used, from simple sustained notes and fingerpicking to bowed guitar. Using a violin-bow on the Electric Bass guitar yielded some very interesting results and allowed me to create the deeper more elongated soundscapes on the record. (Particularly apparent on the track 'Phantasm'.) After recording the guitars, I often sampled and resampled them to create the final pieces. There are no synths on this record. The guitar-soundscapes are juxtaposed with distant vocals, field-recordings, old tape recordings (sampled and resampled from my analogue 4-track tape days) and layered-multi-fx, particularly 'spring-reverb' and tape-delays (created live using guitar pedals and then processed through various software fx plugins). There is a generous dose of 'vinyl-crackle' across the album, to suggest the worn-out, frazzled and somewhat warped state of mind I was in whilst creating it. This work is intended to reflect the sensation of being away from the person you love. Being tormented by loneliness, lack of sleep, the unwanted break of day; the notion that sleep will be next to impossible, especially in an empty bed. The track titles suggest my mind-state and the process of trying to distract myself from the intense sensation of longing, wanting to be back with her. When you're forced into being away from the person you love, for long periods of time, distraction is key. Therefore, regardless of the melancholy nature of the record, it was indeed a welcome distraction and helped me to cope with the separation." Written, Produced and Mastered by Chris Weeks. Archives41 // ArchivesCD22 Archives / 2017 

Released October 9, 2017

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KINGBASTARD - XY34R5 (USB Box-Set)

http://kingbastardmusic.com/merch/kingbastard-xy34r5-usb-box-set

USB Box-Set includes all 30 official KINGBASTARD releases* A total of 172 tracks (Over 12 1/2 hours worth of music!) KINGBASTARD - XY34R5 comes in the format of an exclusive edition USB Box-Set, featuring: Black leather & metal style USB drive with double sided logo design & eyelet (key-ring attachment), set in black foam; housed in a matte-black presentation box with screen-printed logo design & magnetic seal. KINGBASTARD - XY34R5 (Limited Edition USB Box-Set) features: - 6 Albums - 15 EP's - 7 Singles - 2 Mixes - 3 Videos

Also includes instance download of the accompanying digital release: XY34R5 "A Decade of Bastardism!" by KINGBASTARD

*Released between the years 2005-2015. All releases in the Box-Set come in high quality MP3 320 format, with artwork & bonus tracks included.

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Weeks has pursued a predilection for exploration of the floating and psychic vibrations of space-scapes, tranches of droning chord continua and brooding bass

Weeks has pursued a predilection for exploration of the floating and psychic vibrations of space-scapes, tranches of droning chord continua and brooding bass frequencies dwelt on, when not taken on minimalism-fuelled detours, prey to particulate play, subject to unreadable communications and electronic interference. The back catalog* of UK soundsmith Chris Weeks is voluminous for one whose artistic footprint has […]

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Listen/purchase: Trip by Chris Weeks

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Clearly in the last ten years Kingbastard has covered a great deal of sonic territory and this collection is an excellent way to dip ones toes into his ocean of

if only to warn us of too many cows up ahead

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Listen/purchase: XY34R5 "A Decade of Bastardism!" by Kingbastard

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OUT NOW: KINGBASTARD - XY34R5 (Limited Edition USB Box-Set) includes all 30 official KINGBASTARD releases* A total of 172 tracks, over 12 1/2 hours worth of music. KINGBASTARD - XY34R5 comes in the format of an exclusive Limited Edition USB Box-Set, featuring: Black leather & metal style USB drive with double sided logo design & eyelet (key-ring attachment), set in black foam; housed in a matte-black presentation box with screen-printed logo design & magnetic seal. Also included in the Box-Set: A high quality card logo print, a unique, limited edition signed & laminated hand-drawn original artwork by KINGBASTARD & a 4-page booklet. The Box-Set is finished with a heavyweight red vellum & printed red card sleeve; wrapped in red paper. (Each Box-Set comes signed & numbered; hand-drawn image will vary from one shown) For shipping, the Box-Set is wrapped in bubble-wrap, corrugated card & brown packing paper. KINGBASTARD - XY34R5 (Limited Edition USB Box-Set) features: - 6 Albums - 15 EP's - 7 Singles - 2 Mixes - 3 Videos *All releases in the Box-Set come in high quality MP3 320 format, with artwork & bonus tracks included. - A total of 172 tracks (Over 12 1/2 hours worth of music!) I have tried my best to keep the price of the Box-Set as affordable as possible, in hope that those lovely loyal fans who have purchased my music over the years will still consider it a worthy acquisition. To buy each release individually, in digital format, would cost £87.50 / $137 (approx). Each XY34R5 (Limited Edition USB Box-Set) costs only £30 / $47 (approx), a tasty £57.50 / $90 (approx) saving (+ you get all the cool Limited Edition physical stuff;) XY34R5 (Limited Edition USB Box-Set) is exclusive to kingbastardmusic.com I would like to give massive thanks to all those who have supported & put up with me over the years. This is by no means the end of KINGBASTARD. Includes unlimited streaming of XY34R5 "A Decade of Bastardism!"via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.   

Shipping out on or around 01 September 2015

Buy KINGBASTARD - XY34R5 (Limited Edition USB Box-Set): https://kingbastard.bandcamp.com/album/xy34r5-a-decade-of-bastardism

Listen/purchase: XY34R5 "A Decade of Bastardism!" by KINGBASTARD

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Free Download: The Don't Knows by Weeksy an Acoustic Album recorded circa 2006.

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Listen/purchase: Exorcising My Inner Demos by Myheadisaballoon

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Listen/purchase: Black Hole by Chris Weeks

'Spacescapes' - Two live, manipulated guitar improvisations, inspired by Black Holes...

'Event Horizon' - (Static Limit - Below this limit it is impossible to remain stationary.)

'Singularity' - (This is not so much a place, as the moment in your future when time stops.)

Black holes are not really holes at all. They are the opposite of empty! Black holes have the most matter stuffed into the least space of any objects in the universe.

Most black holes form from the remnants of a large star that dies in a supernova explosion. (Smaller stars become dense neutron stars, which are not massive enough to trap light.) If the total mass of the star is large enough (about three times the mass of the Sun), it can be proven theoretically that no force can keep the star from collapsing under the influence of gravity. However, as the star collapses, a strange thing occurs. As the surface of the star nears an imaginary surface called the "Event Horizon", time on the star slows relative to the time kept by observers far away. When the surface reaches the event horizon, time stands still, and the star can collapse no more - it is a frozen collapsing object.

In the centre of a black hole is a gravitational singularity, a one-dimensional point which contains infinite mass in an infinitely small space, where gravity becomes infinite and space-time curves infinitely. As the eminent American physicist Kip Thorne describes it, "it is the point where all laws of physics break down."

The gravity of a black hole is so strong that not even light can escape. Even if a bright star is shining right next to a black hole, you cannot see the black hole. Instead of reflecting the light as other objects do, the black hole just swallows the starlight forever. Any matter that gets too close to a black hole gets swallowed up as well.

Current theory suggests that, as an object falls into a black hole and approaches the singularity at the centre, it will become stretched out or “spaghettified” due to the increasing differential in gravitational attraction on different parts of it, before presumably losing dimensionality completely and disappearing irrevocably into the singularity.

This particular Black Hole was created using electric & electro/acoustic guitars; played using various methods, including bowed, hammer-ons/pull-offs, muted, picked, plucked, slide, strummed, tap-harmonics & good old-fashioned all-round noodling. Manipulated live through various fx units & pedals, including the Strymon BigSky, Line6 POD2.0, Kaoss Pad 3, Kaoss Pad Quad & RE-20 Roland Space Echo; routed through the onboard effects of the Elektron Octatrack & MASCHINE. Each layer & arrangement was captured in one-take in an attempt to keep the flow of the music as organic as possible.

Released 01 June 2015                                         Everything made & played by Chris Weeks Released by:  www.oddjohnrecords.com Distributed by:  www.state51.co.uk CAT No: ODD012 All Music & Artwork © 2015 Chris Weeks Music               

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Listen to: DATA by KINGBASTARD

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