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Kemper Norton

Coastal slurtronica band leader

About Me

Buy our album here
To reserve and order a unique handwoven edition of the Kemper Norton Collective's first annual compilation cd release , go to the above link and leave your address at [email protected] or as a message on ourspace. We think that should work. You can also arrange to send us some coins , postal orders or goods if you don't like the whole paypal thingFollowing the pioneering use of distribution and choice offered by other artists , the price will be five pounds exactly . If you don't live in the UK , we'll have to sort something out with the extra postage. x

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/20/2006
Band Members:Kemper Norton , burnthouse , the Rradiant Boys , Speckle , Loic Rich , Miss Noma , employeeseven , Singularity Jones , consumers, The Sandcastles.......are just some of our members , who provide a fragrant stew of wrong folk , drunktronic laments , granular pop , pagan death anthems , chirpy digitalis and electric crayon soundscapes. Or something.

Influences: CURRENT MOON moon phases:William Blake , Luis Bunuel, Father Ted , David Hume , Maldoror , Scott Walker , Alan Garner , lighthouse keepers, David Cronenberg , Can , Algernon Blackwood ,Raymond Carver , Yves Tanguy ,red basil, Vincent Price,Kenneth Anger, Spinoza , The Avengers,Sun Ra ,Melvil Dewey, David Attenborough,John Logie Baird ...um.... Willard Price , Einsturzende Neubauten ,Takeshi Kitano , Douglas Adams, Gene Hackman ,Ed Rushca, George Melly , Max Ernst , Ramsey Campbell , Delia Derbyshire ,John Wyndham , Ordnance Survey, Henry Darger, The Kitchens of Distinction ,Donald Sutherland, The Monks, The Northern Line, Paganini , Scotch eggs , Orbital,Edward James, Suspiria,Hangover Square ,HP Lovecraft , Coil ,Newlyn fish market , Harry Partch , Loic deJeneve , The Invisibles, Terence Malick , Lubomir Moravcik, Ray Bradbury ,the x18 Truro-Penzance service ,...er, and..... Samuel Palmer , Cono Sur Pinot Noir , Galaxie 500, owls , Max von Sydow, The House of Love , Peter Delaunay, catholicshopper.com , Graham Greene ,Cocteau Twins ,Robert Anton Wilson, talking dogs, The Chocolate War , Nurse With Wound , wild garlic , and indoor shopping arcades.
Sounds Like: Wicker , polystyrene , radon , chocolate , truffle oil , defeat and gallons of wine.
Record Label: Open to offers
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Ice Bird Spiral respun on Norton’s digital loom

Now bouncing around ourspace should be Kemper Norton's reimagining of the mighty Ice Bird Spiral's epic soundscape  " 5 Black Yachts for Jean". Essentially , we chose one of the billions of melo...
Posted by Kemper Norton on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:48:00 PST

selling our first cd

It's been a while , and apologies for the delay , but  our first compilation CD album , featuring tracks played on Radios 3 and 6 , is now available for purchase. Have a gander at ourspace for ho...
Posted by Kemper Norton on Sun, 18 May 2008 11:26:00 PST

Radio 6 airplay....thank you Mr Maconie

We here at Norton Lodge are all deeply excited that Stuart Maconie's Freakzone on Sunday 20th April allowed our slurtronic elegy to Cornish hedonism , "Helston Music Fayre 1992", to pollute ...
Posted by Kemper Norton on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:49:00 PST

music for grey seas and broken rides

"Seaford Terminus" is the latest one.   ...not as gloomy as it could be as it does have a flute in it. East Sussex resorts in March do not make for party music.....    ...
Posted by Kemper Norton on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:42:00 PST

Economics is magical thinking

"The Unhappitants" is an offbeat response to the recent fraught global economy.Based on Joyce's description of mankind , its recipe of 90% twisted and slurred harps to 10% twitchdrums may soothe you a...
Posted by Kemper Norton on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:50:00 PST

Nostalgia is a drug.....

.....like many others. A fine escape and entertaining alternate reality for a while , but a hobby that shouldn't be confused with life itself , or used too often. That's what  " all her dreams du...
Posted by Kemper Norton on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:49:00 PST

new song , and free Icelandic lesson !

Greetings colleagues......blutacked up a new track today. Its a collabaration with the divine yet grumpy Singularity Jones on guitar , and provides the invaluable service of both providing some pretty...
Posted by Kemper Norton on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:36:00 PST

thanks Emily

Emily Jones , dedicated memeber of our loose collective and fragrant purveyor of psychedelic pop for the undeserving , has kindly allowed Kemper Norton to smear one of her fragile songs( The Hive ) wi...
Posted by Kemper Norton on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:15:00 PST

giant miscalculation

Greetings friends&&due to public demand equating to a drop in an ocean ,the Kemper Norton collective  shamefacedly announce a  new rustic hurdytronic track based on the following tale of lov...
Posted by Kemper Norton on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:10:00 PST

still water good idea

South West water protest album gathers steam ! Corporate utility cash giant runs for the hills ! Metaphors gleefully mixed ! Since the invaluable publicity given by Radio 3 , our collective's ludicro...
Posted by Kemper Norton on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:30:00 PST