KUBLA KHAN REKKIDS

Watch Valley Rats playing at 420 @ the Vancouver Art Gallery

2011-07-07T15:17:00.000-07:00

Valley Rats seem to get a lot of stoner gigs. Coming soon- live footage of the Rats from Cannabis Day at the Art Gallery last weekend.

Keep an eye out (or an ear rather) our for new recordings coming soon!

Valley Rats - "I Think I"

Hear 2 tracks from Carissa & the Boh-Bissas

2011-07-06T18:39:00.000-07:00

We've been working on recording a full-length album for Carissa (and her Boh-Bissas), but just couldn't wait til the whole thing was finished to show y'all. So here you go, 2 songs:

Skateboarding Kitties by Kubla Khan Recordings

Bears Don't Use TP by Kubla Khan Recordings

remember to keep in touch at facebook.com/carissaandthebohbissas

Listen to the new 'mini album' from Fug Hugtie

2011-06-25T00:15:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone. In my spare time over the past few days I scraped together this little mess of casio samples I call Pubic Joy. I put it out under the moniker Fug Hugtie (kubla forum represent) and you can listen to it / download it here:

<p>&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://evanmatthiesen.bandcamp.com/track/pubic-joy"&amp;amp;gt;Pubic Joy by Evan Matthiesen&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;</p>

have fun!

-evan

Bedroom Songs by Polestar Preschool

2011-04-18T02:12:00.000-07:00

Hello there, children of technology! Surprise! Bedroom Songs! Over the past month I've gone back to Port Alberni to stay with my family twice thanks to a series of birthdays. I get ghosties in my guts every time I take the trip up island. There's so much natural beauty on the coast and it always makes it's way into my music. Over the two separate weekends I stayed at my parents house I wrote and recorded four songs in my old bedroom.
It was almost an accident. The Cornealis EP should have been completed by now. Bedroom Songs was just something I did in my spare time but it took on a life of it's own.
Pass The Brain is nearing completion. The only thing left to do is have a final mixing session and then we'll be heading straight to the factory for materialization.
So enjoy Bedroom Songs for free! FLACs, ALAC, Ogg Vorbis? Shit yeah, uncompressed audio!

Bedroom Songs

Polestar Preschool

1. Song 1 (Floodgate)

2. Song 2 (Flowerbed)

3. Song 4 (Stirred)

<a href="http://polestarpreschoolmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bedroom-songs">Bedroom Songs by Polestar Preschool</a>

...

Cornealis, Carissa Dorean, Brle Whle, Kaleidoscopic Inner Era

2011-04-08T19:28:00.000-07:00

Hello internets! There have been many whirs and hums and clicks and clanks coming from the Kubla Khan factory as of late. Now that 80% of the Family Khan is living with each other in Victoria there has been an increase in production. Nearly everyone in Vic is currently involved in a new project!
To start, the bandshack beauties known as Cornealis have recently finished tracking for their debut EP, Pass the Brain. I've been appointed to mix it but I've had a slow go of it thus far due to various work related stresses. The good news is I've pulled up my socks and the EP is almost finished! For the hell of it I present to you a sneak noise:
<a href="http://cornealis.bandcamp.com/track/sneak-noise">Sneak Noise by Cornealis</a>
In other news, production has begun on a full length from Carissa Dorean, otherwise known as Carissa Royendyk. The album will be comprised of original material and will serve as a collection of both re-recorded and unreleased songs. Evan Matthiesen is producing.
Carissa is an original member of the Kubla Khan family. She released a 6-song EP in 2009 and has written a batch of lovely new tunes to accompany new versions of these songs.
Braeley Wong has been a busy li'l beaver. He's been working steadily on a new project with Tyler Barnes of which is called Braeley & Tyler Present Their Kaleidoscopic Inner Era. The two of them have been making music for a while now. Before this latest batch of songs they were two thirds of Rotten Delicious, whose other member,Spencer Reid, seemingly dropped off the face of the earth. B&TKIE recently played a show at the Fort Cafe and are continuing work on their collection of songs. Here is a taste:
kaleidoscopic inner era live takes by braeleytyler

To hear more live demos, click here.

Braeley is also working on a collection of his own songs. I haven't heard any of it yet but everyone at the Kubla Kamp is waiting in fervent anticipation. He recently released two songs on his band camp. Here they are!
<a href="http://hairyhollow.bandcamp.com/album/kraahnboe">kraahnboe by braeley whaley</a>

New music from Valley Rats

2011-04-06T12:36:00.000-07:00

<p>&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://valleyrats.bandcamp.com/album/holy-smokes-lookit-the-valley-rats"&amp;amp;gt;Holy Smokes Lookit the Valley Rats by Valley Rats&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;</p>

Valley Rats are a new Kubla Khan band from Vancouver, consisting of bass-slinger Peirce Kingan, toe-tapper Mats Folkesson, and Kubla-veteran Evan Matthiesen on guit box. Have a listen to their new demo here, and check out one their upcoming shows:

April 13th - The Forum on Granville - Vancouver

April 20th - 420 @ THE ART GALLERY! - Vancouver

Arpil 23rd - The Cambie Esquimalt w/ Fall Fair Car and Button Feilds - Victoria

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2010-06-10T17:24:00.000-07:00

Fall Fair Car - Eclipse Shades
<a href="http://fallfaircar.bandcamp.com/album/eclipse-shades">I Fell Off A Boat by Fall Fair Car</a>

GUESS WHAT
We finished our album Eclipse Shades, and you can now download the entire thing for free. Take it. Its yours.

Remember to come out to the CD release June 22nd at the Biltmore Cabaret in Vancouver
its with our friends from vic Myles Black & the Pearly Whites
only 5 bucks!
BE THERE SUCKAH

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130278430332503&ref=ts

-Evan

kubla khan's NIGHT WALKS

2010-04-13T15:34:00.000-07:00

rotten delicious came from po-town

out to Vancouver to play with fall fair car

at the media club.

the night before, we picked

up the instruments,

walked around, and filmed it.

kubla khan's NIGHT WALKS

by Jes Matthiesen

players

Evan Matthiesen, Carson Mallon, Cain Bredesen,

Tyler Barnes, Braeley Wong, Spencer Reid

2010-03-12T11:19:00.000-08:00

Goo Bird came out. It's awesome.
Listen here.

1. White Goo

2. Floriculture

3. Flat Chest Rock

4. Grape Fart

5. Hebrew

6. Black Goo

KLAUS

2010-03-09T20:13:00.000-08:00

Hey, internets. Things have been quiet around these parts the last few weeks. Everyone's been pretty busy. Braeley finished up his work on goo bird and has been test-running it on members of magical beautiful. I haven't had a chance to hear it yet as it's been locked up brle's ass and shit's drum-tight.
As far as I know, magical beautiful has also been working on a fresh set to play at the upcoming show at the media club, so I'm pumped to hear it. A splurge of new Kubla Khan Recordings is about to unleash itself upon the world.

Carissa has also been working on some new songs. Check out her bandcamp site to get a taste of her wonderful musical stylings, they were recorded in the cool of the band shack and have that funky air to them.

I recently had a week and a half break from school and I decided to use it to record my own material for my solo project Polestar Preschool. I've been working on an album steadily the last three weeks and it will be my solo debut. A recording blog will be posted as soon as I get my pictures off my memory card.

THANKYOUBYE

C/M

2010-02-24T20:53:00.000-08:00

This is some fucking around I did today that went way further than expected. A preview of things to come. Id like to thank the beatles and the fine makers of the casio sk-1 for samples

<a href="http://evanmatthiesen.bandcamp.com/track/holy-hounds">Holy Hounds by Evan Matthiesen</a>

-evan

new fall fair car video - drum tracking

2010-02-18T22:25:00.000-08:00

fall fair car is making an album called EcLiPsE sHaDeS
heres a super cool video of our drummer struggling to keep it together
what a fucking asshole

-evan

2010-02-17T13:31:00.000-08:00

not enough people have heard linda perhacs, and especially chimacum rain
leave them behind

if time ever froze this song would play, cool rite
her story is similar to vashtis, which is cool right

the multi voice part sounds like rain WHICH IS COOL

RITE? ? ?

i wonder how many other ignored old women made amazing music 30 years ago

-soul master number one

happy dead day

2010-02-15T18:18:00.000-08:00

love all around, from me to you to the animals and their families

my ep is scheduled to be released march 20th on kubla khan records

it's called goo bird and will consist of 5 new songs

i'll post a link when i upload it

i've been listening to a lot of stravinsky and varese (AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAA)

is that all there is to say?

ya

-bray

eat some horse pussy and puke shit out of your dick holes

The Academy - Fall Fair Car - Rad

2010-02-14T20:41:00.000-08:00

Fall Fair Car is going to rock The Academy with Fields of Green in the same fashion that they did North Delta, but this time FFC won't blow the big one. ooooo-eeeeee that one was a stinker.

Stay tuned Po-town, Feb 20th we're coming to bring the hurt.

Speaking of Feilds Of Green, check these cats out. I thoroughly enjoyed their Delta set, and they are a perfect fit for the academy. Some video from that set may come up soon, along with a song from Forestry at the academy, and another studio video from FFC.

peace out girl scout

- matthiesen J

2010-02-10T18:38:00.000-08:00

                      Ive been listening to alot of toro y moi

HES MY NEW GOLDEN GIRL

    amazing.

                     if youre looking for causers of this, youve found it

          listen to that if you feel like orgasming

there is more to it than a fad with a ridiculous title.

magical beautiful, of kublakhan fame, is preparing for their set

with fall fair car(who are likely already prepared)

   on march 23rd at the media club in vancouver

           which is a week before washed out plays there, who is also amazing

magical beautiful is also playing at the academy in port alberni on april 3rd with the nicenicestnice guys and

awesome musicians behind sapphire

ps if you dig sufjan check out this cover i just finished

xiufjan stevens - flint

south brotha number one OUT

2010-02-07T00:29:00.000-08:00

ARTWORK

with Carson Mallon

Three Machines

Wayne Thiebaud, 1963

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Hey everyone. I just wanted to post this little footnote to let everyone know that we've decided to divide the week among everyone in the collective so there's a post everyday. We're going to have alot of different things posted in addition to news on upcoming Kubla Khan events and releases.Today isn't my day, but I wanted to give everyone the heads up.
Remember to subscribe, and follow me on twitter for all news on Kubla Khan Recordings:
http://twitter.com/poke_slow

THX U

C/M

Long Time No Post - Videos now, Photos later

2010-01-08T21:37:00.000-08:00

Sorry that there hasn't been any new posts in forever. But guess what? We've been scrounging up some video stuff, and Fall Fair Car has been recording. I got a new camera, so videos should start to be the norm around here.

Magical Beautiful SLAYED The Academy on the 28th, the crowd was at first hesitant, but by the end of the set they had everyone in palm of their greasy, knob-twiddling hands. Their newest collection of songs, Rotten Delicious, had some of the illest artwork I've seen. It came in 4 different colors of fabric with all of the script done by hand by Braeley, and it's really hard to tell the difference from one to the next - fucking well done Braelz!! lolerrZ!!

Fall Fair Car has finished off a few new tunes that are going to be on Eclipse Shades, and if you give a shit about that kind of thing, we got a new mic (Shure SM7B) that made everything super sticky sweet sounding. Here's a teaser video for the album, it's mostly made of footage from our show at Funky Winkerbeans where we all wore jeans and white t-shirts.

Fall Fair Car in Kubla Studios B, Magical Beautiful Rocks The Academy

2009-11-20T23:46:00.000-08:00

aka. Clarkston's room. We're recording a bit of a followup to the last group of songs we did, a number of them are probably going to be on it as well. It's probably gonna be titled "Eclipse Shades". Most drum tracks are done, guitar was started tonight, which sounds fucking delicious.

In other news on the Kubla front, Magical Beautiful is playing The Academy on Nov. 28th (on a Saturday at 6:30, no less) with Yukon Blonde, who used to be Alphababy; Rorschach, who has Ryan and Nano from the legendary Open, Parachute! ; and The Perfect Trend. The last Academy show I attended was a total trip, so fun, I hope to get to this show, it's gonna be a real barnburner.

Pictures?

Tyler and Braeley of Magical Beautiful (Spencer not pictured)

There's your goddamn pictures.

Fall Fair Car plays 'Ontario Angel' at the Backstage Lounge

2009-11-02T14:51:00.000-08:00

We played to no one it was awesome!
that is all

-evan

Mighty Evan, The Chess Baron

2009-10-14T17:04:00.000-07:00

The half of the kube that makes up fall fair car all live in the same house in steveston, and our occasionally favourite pastime is to try and play chess. But ev has a near-undefeated record in the house (tyler came over and beat him), and it makes it a real pain in the ass.

here, clarkston loses, again.

We hope to do better in the future. I'm practicing against inmates at the local big house, and i'm confident that my cigs-for-checkmates strategy will open up a hole in is game.

Last weekend ev and i headed to po-town for a thanksgiving sesh, saw our ole buddy charlie, and he showed us his new kitty and new gun, which was a trip. after getting stuffed croat-syle we met up with braeley, cain, tyler, and spencer.

"his nuts are on my hip!"

tyler has a new autoharp...

...and i fake-played the shit out of it

cain took this ill open shutter shot

It was good to be back, we had lunch with my grandma and had turkey sangies on the ferry instead of white spot bc burgs. a much needed island recharge.

Be sure to catch Fall Fair Car @ the Backstage lounge on the 28th, it'll be a real barnburner.

Who managed to free the space princess?

2009-10-07T22:02:00.000-07:00

I did!
Ajay said so.
Through sheer wit and unchecked charisma I was able to free the princess from the vile clutches of the Space King, tyrant ruler of the core systems. I was rewarded with three fresh Pod Of Orcas tracks in addition to a fly poster which will soon adorn the walls of the local Kubla Khan jamspace, inspiring good vibrations within all.
Music.

C/M

Pod of Orcas - Midnight Black

A trip down memory lane...

2009-10-07T12:58:00.000-07:00

This song was crafted by four brothers in the sacred bandshack. Though the band has lain dormant for over a year, the times had were nothing short of amazing and their sonic imprint will always lay firmly in place, both in the bandshack and in the minds of the Kubla Khan Family. Maybe one day Pacific Banker's tunes will ring once again throughout the hills of Vancouver Island, but until then we have this mp3 for all to enjoy.

-C/M

Pacific Banker - Burst Pandemonium

Sean Hanebury and Evan Matthiesen - Water

2009-10-06T22:02:00.000-07:00

Im living in vancouver now, but once in a while I go back to port alberni to chill and visit with friends and family. last time I was out, I went over to seans place and chilled for a good part of the day, and he showed me his studio, his computer microphone and guitar, and we made an album. its that easy people. it was totally improvised but i think it turned out really nice. after we made four songs out of 5 takes, we chilled even harder while we drew pictures, cut up newspaper and taped them all over a CD sleeve, made this weird looking thing:

heres a stream of the 3 songs, the cd has an extra track but theres only one in the universe.

<a href="http://seanhanebury.bandcamp.com/album/water">love Love by Sean Hanebury</a>

I think we went to carsons after and chilled the hardest with various alberni folk, im pretty sure braeley and spencer were there, and definately jay. good times were had by all.

goodnight sleepyheads,
-matthiesen E

Carissa's EP is dope

2009-10-05T22:33:00.000-07:00

These songs were meant for a split EP collaboration between Carson and Carissa. Out of the time spent in the bandshack, four of these songs were put together. A new version of Gulliver Round was recorded but it was decided that an older recording was more suited, as it featured vocal contributions from most of the original members of the Kubla Khan Collective. Carson's side of the split was never completed due to lack of time, so these songs were stored away for a while. After a while the songs were passed along to Evan for mixing and mastering. Finally, we're releasing the five songs as Carissa's solo debut, featuring Ian Noyce and David Russell.

-C/M

<a href="http://carissaroyendyk.bandcamp.com/album/ep">Gus Chiggins by Carissa Royendyk</a>

1st POST OMG

2009-10-05T11:17:00.000-07:00

Hey all, this is the kubla khan blog. I'm waaay too tired to think of anything the say about us, I was making a blog, really tired me out. In short, we all make / listen to music alot and feel we need to tell everyone. So I'll cut the foreplay and git on wit it.

I felt really bad because I put out a Kubla Khan update on facebook and forgot to mention 2 people very important to khan. Here's a track by our buddha buddy Cain Bredesen, under the name Less Than Two.

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://lessthantwo.bandcamp.com/track/take-two"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Take Two by Less Than Two&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

I also forgot to mention Carissa Royendyk who has some totally DOPE new music, but it isnt on bandcamp yet, which is my fault, sorry. Meanwhile theres myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/carissaroyendyk