#kaada

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kaada / patton -- aubade

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AllMusic Staff Pick: Kaada/Patton Bacteria Cult

The second studio collaboration from Norwegian composer and producer John Erik Kaada and Faith No More/Mr. Bungle/Fantômas frontman Mike Patton, Bacteria Cult is a wordless, yet unceasingly evocative amalgam of dark, orphaned film music, lush chamber pop, and neo-classical-infused avant-garde.

- James Monger

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Mike Patton IS Gomez Addams (Raul Julia edition)

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Dave Cooper’s The Absence of Eddy Table - Directed by Rune Spaans [Music video version]

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Smiger - Kaada

Years ago, after a friend of mine delved down an ill-advised Mike Patton rabbit-hole, he came back up with Kaada (full name: John Erik Kaada), a Norwegian singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He’d worked with Mike Patton and was signed to a label of his at one point, too. 

This album struck me at the time, though, and still does today. It has a really fragile sadness to it but somehow avoids saccharine. Beautiful song, and nice music video, too. While his work also varies a lot across albums, I’d say this is his high point and I’d highly recommend checking out the whole album.

Contributed by @AlainWilliam89

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Many Patton listeners have marveled at the affection for lounge exotica and other seemingly edgeless musical forms that’s manifested itself on the Lovage album Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (with Dan the Automator), and Romances, an experimental album made with Norway’s John Kaada. He’s got an answer for them. “In a weird way, by listening to it, I'm Studying it. How is this arranged? Especially with exotica stuff. The orchestration in that music is so dense and so complex and so amazing, if you can get beyond the kitsch. And I can do that in 30 seconds flat. With Les Baxter in particular, the orchestral density of what that guy accomplished never ceases to amaze me. I hear new stuff in there every time I listen.”

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Farewell by Kaada from the album Closing Statements - Director: Christian Holm-Glad

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