KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS SHARE 'SEAN DELEAR' VIDEO
DIRECTED BY JONATHAN HOWARD
4-SONG EP "SWING FROM THE SEAN DELEAR" AVAILABLE ON IN THE RED RECORDS
'Sean DeLear' is the second video from Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds latest EP, "Swing from the Sean DeLear” on In The Red Records. Directed and edited by DC Filmmaker and musician, Jonathan Howard, with visual development by Jordan Albro, the video sees The Pink Monkey Birds rocking from room to room in a quarantined house, with Kid on a starry rooftop, serenading their ghostly friend in the cosmos, Sean DeLear.
The EP celebrates a dreamlike bridge between life and memory. Recorded and mixed with Jim Waters (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Sonic Youth, etc.) at Waterworks Recording this past year in Tucson AZ, “Sean DeLear”, is a tribute to the late, magical, non-binary, African American singer Sean De Lear, a ubiquitous, Los Angeles underground institution. The rocking first song on the EP uses the metaphor of those passed on as swinging from a chandelier, a festive image we all hope is true! The next song “(ARE YOU) Ready, Freddy?”, is a Pink Monkey Birds live standard, where everyone and everything is going for it full tilt! Life is short, right? In the funky funk song “(I CAN’T AFFORD) Your Shitty Dreamhouse, an anti-Capitalist screed blasts policies which want to build dream houses on nostalgia for “the good old days.”, a racist, conservative day where putting children in cages and ignoring pandemics is some disgusting bullshit. The song’s first line is “We’re at the end of the end of privilege” and the last is “We’re burning down your wealth and bigotry.” We can fight, and dance, for inspiration! Closing the EP is a 14-minute psych, Chicano groove titled “He Walked In.” The text is based on a visceral fever dream Kid had about his friend, and Gun Club bandmate, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, who passed away in 1996. Leading us back to the theme of the real feelings sustained between life and memory, the song dreams on as the band spreads their monkey bird wings.... Mark Cisneros on flute, and guest tambourine queen, Cesar Padilla lost in music, but found in sound. In such uncertain times, one thing is most certain; Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds will always bring the party...and the other world.
WATCH THE 14-MINUTE VIDEO FOR "HE WALKED IN" DIRECTED AND FILMED BY DAVID FENSTER
Press:
Gente From La Puente interview on KCET
Kid Congo Greatest Moments on Louder (UK)
Listen to Kid on Episode 222 of Turned Out A Punk
Read 'The Singular Fashion Sense Of Kid Congo Powers' on Vogue.com
Read Kid's article on 'How I Came Out Of The Closet And Into The Street' on Huffington Post
Read the interview with Kid on life with The Cramps, The Gun Club and Nick Cave on Dangerous Minds
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