A.R. Kane - i [2LP]

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: RGIRL136 
Barcode: 5016266113618 
Release Date: 05 Jul 2024
Genre: Dreampop

*REMASTERED DOUBLE BLACK VINYL WITH PRINTED INNER SLEEVES, LIMITED TO JUST 500 COPIES*

*Lead review and interview in Uncut magazine*
https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/album/ar-kane-ar-kive-143030/

Feature with Simon Reynolds in Pitchfork
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/ar-kane-interview-2023/?fbclid=IwAR1VADvlprxqZjBDTYNB3eTpw0yk2dJGZjbMg6I9yKjNSHnrFZMiOFEXcS0

A.R. Kane - Uncut & The Wire reissues of the year 2023

'Strange, sensual, political A.R. Kane's unique blend remains intoxicating"
-UNCUT #7

"situated Ayulii and Tambala's harnessing of dreamy dub, feedback-soaked post-rock, heady electronic beats and jangly psychedelic pop as both exemplary of its time and seeding the future"
-The Wire #11

The final part of this ‘A.R. Kane reissue collection is 1989’s astonishing double-LP ‘i’ which followed up on ‘sixty nine’s promise and saw the duo fully unleash their experimental pop sensibilities over 26 tracks, plunging the A.R. Kane sound into a dazzlingly kaleidoscopic vision of pop experiment and play. Suffused with new digital
technologies and combining searingly sweet and danceable pop with perhaps the
duo’s strangest and boundary-pushing compositions, the album did exactly what a
great double-set should do - indulge the artists sprawling pursuit of their own
imaginations but always with a concision and an ear for those moments where pop
both transcends and toys with the listeners expectations. Jason Ankeny has noted
that “In retrospect, ‘i’ now seems like a crystal ball prophesying virtually every major
musical development of the 1990s; from the shimmering techno of ‘A Love from
Outer Space’ to the liquid dub of ‘What’s All This Then?’, from the alien drone-pop of
‘Conundrum’ to the sinister shoegazer miasma of ‘Supervixens’ — it’s all here, an
underground road map for countless bands to follow.” Perhaps the most
overwhelmingly all-encompassing transmission from A.R. Kane, ‘i’ bookended a
three year period in which the duo had made some of the most prophetic and
revelatory music of the entire decade.

After ‘i’ the duo’s output became more sporadic with Tambala and Ayuli moving in
different directions both geographically and musically, with only 1994’s ‘New Clear
Child’ a crystalline re-fraction of future and past echoes of jazz, folk and soul, before
the duo went their separate ways. Since then, A.R. Kane’s music has endured, not
thanks to the usual sepia’d false memories that seem to maintain interest in so much
of the musical past, but because those who hear A.R. Kane music and are changed
irrevocably, have to share that universe which A.R. Kane opened up, with anyone
else who will listen. Far more than other lauded documents of the late 80s it still
sounds astonishingly fresh, astonishingly livid and vivid and necessary and NOW.

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/199281-a-r-kane-ar-kive/reviews
10/10

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/a-r-kane-forgotten-band-invented-dreampop/

https://www.factmag.com/2012/11/13/a-love-from-outer-space-80s-dream-pop-icons-a-r-kane-interviewed/

Tracklist:
‘I’ LP
1) Hello 2) A Love From Outer Space 3) Crack Up 4) Timewind 5) What’s All This Then? 6) Snow joke 7) Off Into Space 8) And I Say 9) Yeti 10) Conundrum 11) Honeysuckleswallow 12) Long Body 13) In A Circle 14) Fast Ka 15) Miles Apart 16) Pop 17) Mars 18) Spook 19) Sugarwings 20) Back Home 21) Down 22) Supervixens 23) Insect Love 24) Sorry 25) Catch My Drift 26) Challenge