Chip Kinman - The Great Confrontation

Limited edition on color vinyl. First come, first served. No guarantees.  Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus is attributed with the quote “The only constant in life is change” and nothing sums up Chip Kinman’s latest creation-or his entire career- quite as well. Like each of Chip’s musical incarnations, The Great Confrontation seemingly has no connection whatsoever to the work that preceded it...unless the listener is savvy enough to spot the deeply buried but always present through lines. The tracks on this album are wildly alien in every applicable sense of the word. The opener, “Let’s Go, Dark Shark” sets the scene with  drippy, space age chirping that slowly degenerates into slo-mo sludge like  an astronaut running out of oxygen. “Ciao Raggazzi”- not to be confused with Jay And The Americans’ “Good Bye Boys, Good Bye (Ciao Raggazzi, Ciao)” is a derailing train of a song. The vocals are spoken in Italian and presumably, snatches of conversation sampled from a Mafia crime film. S