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Kevin Blechdom
Kevin Blechdom is a female originally named Kristin Erickson when she was
born in Florida in 1978. With a laptop, self-made computer music programs,
piano chops, a 5-string banjo, Blechdom sings from from the heart.
Kevin Blechdom’s newest solo album, GENTLEMANIA, is being released on
sonig. Expected in March 2009, the album is an acoustic pop record co-produced
by Kevin and Mocky in Berlin.
Initially trained as a classical pianist and composer, Kevin was always looking for
new musical structures and patterns. She began recording music with her brother
and sister-in-law in an experimental rock band called ADULT RODEO about ten
years ago, releasing two albums on the revered Shimmy Disc label and more
records on the Adult Rodeo imprint, Four States Fair Records. Later she hooked
up with Blevin Blectum (Bevin Kelley) and formed BLECTUM FROM
BLECHDOM after an accidental collaboration one Halloween night while they
were at Mills College in Oakland, California. The duo went on to release music
on labels like Tigerbeat6 and Deluxe. “The Messy Jesse Fiesta” won 2nd prize at
the prestigious Ars Electronica for digital music in 2001, and soon after broke up.
Blectum from Blechdom was a hyperactive computer and sampler duo priding
itself with its own digital confusion, frenetic madness, and psychotic delusions. In
2006 Blectum from Blechdom reuinited by pie-ing each other in the face, and
have since been recording and touring together.
After Blectum From Blechdom broke up, Kristin kept her team name Kevin
Blechdom and relocated herself to Berlin for five years. She wrote and produced
two albums for the Chicks on Speed label: BITCHES WITHOUT BRITCHES
(2003) and EAT MY HEART OUT (2005). The albums are a mishmash of styles
and production techniques. From Broadway musical to General MIDI rock opera
to electro-smudge to aleatoric blatherings, her albums put a bizarre spin on what
pop music can be for an era of attention span deficit.
For the past ten years, Kevin has been touring around the world playing live
shows and collaborating. She has worked with artists such as Eugene
Chadbourne, Fred Frith, Jad Fair, Kramer, Jamie Lidell, Kid606, Dat Politics,
Mocky, John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Zeena Parkins, Cristian Vogel, Safety
Scissors, Heidi Mortenson, the Organ Lady, Lumberob, Ching Chong Song, Irene
Moon, Myrobotfriend, Charlie Engstrom, Christopher Fleeger, Chicks on Speed,
Kim Hiorthoy, Andre Vida, Max Tundra, and Planningtorock. She has played
shows in Brazil, Australia, Israel, Moscow, and across Europe and the United
States.
Currently, she is living in Tallahassee, Florida and writing her thesis paper in
order to complete her M.F.A. degree in Electronic and Computer Music
Composition at Mills College. Her final project for school was writing a forty
minute opera called Recantata, which musically retold the story about her
preschool teachers who were wrongfully put imprisoned for satanic ritual abuse
because of the misguidance of some child-hypnotizing psychologists. For the last
year, and to support her upcoming release, Blechdom will be touring as a duo in
her hi-tech country and ragtime band with Christopher Fleeger called Barnwave.
Kevin produced the self-released Ching Chong Song album, LITTLE NAKED
GAY ADVENTURE and has started working on their next release.
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