Caroline No, by Caroline No

Caroline No

by Caroline No

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1.	Born to Run 03:20	buy track
2.	2023 04:12	buy track
3.	Anna's On The Radio 03:37	buy track
4.	Cowboy Boots 03:33	buy track
5.	Two Monkeys 03:58	buy track
6.	Beautiful Youth 04:06	buy track
7.	Kerouac 04:15	buy track
8.	Rainbow 03:55	buy track
9.	Rafaela 03:55	buy track

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Caroline No’s 3rd album was built around a set of songs I was writing in the summer of 2019. I built the songs around real events but looped these narratives into stories from song histories. The result is like an intersection of Brill building characters such as Carole King and Neil Sedaka with the bedroom fanaticism of historical music projects like Virgin Insanity.

After a year of playing the songs live in various formations, we aimed to record in the Australian summer. We knew Jim was going to be in Melbourne, and soon after he arrived in Australia, we met at Mick’s studio. Nick and Mick engineered, with Ian on bass, Jim on drums, Mick, Dee and me on guitars, and Dee and me singing. The sense of intuitive knowledge and performance was exhilarating as we played. We spent two days in the studio, and when we listened back later, it seemed a compelling representation of what had happened, captured live.

The band on this album are artists I grew up with. We were friends first, and engaging with the material, there was no formal structure to follow. Our interpretive approach meant the songs grew from simple structural frames and narrative poetics into full sonic landscapes, engaging across pop, folk, psychedelia and improvisation. Caroline No became - for this iteration - a shifting sonic space tied to intimacy, musical conversation and relationship, expressed in an open improvisatory way. The sound of the record is the result of trust, responsiveness and mutual knowledge.

The name Caroline No was an imaginary character through much of the work, arising from the Beach Boys’ melancholic paen to encountering a past lover who has cut her hair off. My idea was for Caroline No to become the locus for an ongoing composition project where I would write back into songs' history the perspective of patriarchal song’s subjects.

This is a recuperative project of easeful making; attempting reclamations of lost narratives, exploring love, loss and the psychedelic of the everyday.

Caroline Kennedy, January 2022, London

A1 Born To Run
A2 2023
A3 Anna's On The Radio
A4 Cowboy Boots
A5 Two Monkeys
B1 Beautiful Youth
B2 Kerouac
B3 Rainbow
B4 Rafaela

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released April 1, 2022

Caroline Kennedy: voice, rhythm guitar, songs
Ian Wadley: bass
Mick Turner: guitar
Jim White: drums
Dee Hannan: guitar and vocals

cover painting by Caroline Kennedy

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