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Kites

 
Artist: Kites

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Christopher Forgues

Similar Artists:

Prurient, Nautical Almanac, Mindflayer, Jessica Rylan, Sissy Spacek, Black Dice
  • Genres: Rock
  • Representative Albums: "Hallucination Guillotine", "The Hidden Family/+White+", "Royal Paint With the Metallic Gardener from the United States Helped into an Open Field

Biography

Kites is the moniker behind one-man harsh noise artist Christopher Forgues, an early adopter of the New England circuit-bending phenomenon and part of the second-generation Providence, RI, noise scene. Forgues has tailored instruments and tracks for each of his performances, so a definitive description is impossible, but his shows have often included a suit of wires, cables, and transistors that reacts to his movements and is directed toward a large amp as Forgues screams, gesticulates, or smiles madly. With such an array, he looks not unlike a scarecrow caught in his own inner tornado. Kites began in 2000 and the first full-length, Royal Paint with the Metallic Gardner from the United States Helped into an Open Field by Women and Children, appeared in 2003. The album combined tracks of live and makeshift studio recordings featuring blistering, elongated noise with beautiful, childlike bedroom recordings of handclaps and banjo. In early 2004 he toured with Prurient and Hair Police. Later that year, Kites released a split 12" with local noise artist Prurient, also on Load Records. Forgues' chaotic sophomore CD, Peace Trials, was released in 2005, followed by the continually experimental Hallucination Guillotine in 2007. ~ Daphne Carr, All Music Guide
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"Kites" is a song written by Hal Hackaday and Lee Pockriss.

The best known version of it was performed by Simon Dupree and the Big Sound. It was their only single which became a major hit in the UK. The single reached number 8 in late 1967 and as an exemplar of the early psychedelic rock style it has since appeared on many compilations, especially those themed around psychedelia.

Other performances

  • The Israeli band Nikmat Hatraktor (נקמת הטרקטור) recorded a Hebrew version of the song, which appeared on their eponymous debut album (1990).
  • A cover version by the dance group Ultraviolet was a UK club hit in 1991.[citation needed]
  • A version of Kites is included in Arthur Brown's 2007 album The Voice of Love.
  • Charlotte Hatherley plays an acoustic version of the song in her set.

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