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TH'KLL (btw, it's pronounced like "fickle") Origins: Just Kidding Th' Karakul Band was an early collective of bored post-musicians that met in and around the south-eastern United States. They began by forming and assembling a series of Social Chaos Projects that they attempted to pass off as different performing acts: Mime Troupes, Indie Rock Bands, etc. Being pranksters at heart, the "Group's" Membership as they executed these experimental configurations of a variety of ppl with intentionally absurd premises but straight-faced presentation. Eventually, tho, something stuck (as it usually does) and a core of musically inclined persons each possessing their own private stock of random cassette recordings, began to creatively interact in between "happenings." At first they merely overdubbed new sounds over each other's prior work, but slowly and surely an identifiable sound began to make itself known, and literal collaboration began. As the sounds they created together took on a life of their own, the pranksters decided to try to continue their hoaxing, but at the same time slyly sugarcoat the emotions each individual felt into the project. The resultant band would follow them through until the end.
What's in a Name The origins of the name are somewhat blurred, tho some suggest the band merely felt sheepish about being sincere. Regardless, with the assumption of slightly more solid foundations for their impulses in place, and a definite name by which to call this project, the members felt a need to affix names for themselves as well, or at least their roles (or, perhaps more accurately, their emotions.) Seeing where it all stood, the first three names came pretty naturally: Cara Kuul: Namesake of the band, the free spirit and wondering eye of unrestrained music. Her voice used only as punctuation, her words often sung by another. Wes Turner: The melancholic singer-songwriter archetype, perennially heartbroken and reflective. Reluctant frontman by default. Sirius Lee: The Go-between, the engineer, the tape-dubbing one, behind the machines and behind the scenes. Never heard vocally.
Venturing out Early Live experiences often involved a loose drumkit, and tape machine with delayed acoustic guitar and drone bass. Of course, old habits die hard, and the pranks would continue in the form of multiple canceled shows, impersonating a German art-rock band and general mischevious actions that could lead many to believe that the only ones really being entertained by the group were the group themselves. This argument could be further augmented by the fact that the general audience at an early 'kll show usually consisted of eight barfly regulars and the door guy. Undaunted, they honed their "Philosophy" into one of achieving a state of Fictionalization: They believed that if they played their cards right, the name of the band could live on as a rumor. In other words, that they could both have this rich and strange history, yet make it so hard to reference that no one would ever believed they really ever existed. Following this agreement in vision (or complex self-delusion depending upon yr perspective) the cancelled show-to-appearance ratio began to tilt dramatically towards the former. |