"I've been changing nappies and doing washing for the last 10 years," says Troy Kingi. "That was my rock'n'roll lifestyle." Musicians don't usually have ten-year plans.
Or, if they do, they're not going to tell you about them, simply because there's so much scope for it all to go tits-up as real life gets in the way. Troy Kingi isn't like other musicians. When the then 36-year-old New Zealander launched his first full-length album in 2016, he unveiled an unlikely master plan: 10 albums (each recorded with a different band) in 10 years, in 10 different genres, followed by retirement.
Eight years on, he's still on schedule. Album number eight, was recorded at the fabled Rancho De La Luna recording studio in Joshua Tree, California. It's the home of .
It's where and friends assembled to take mushrooms and record music for three days straight for the first Desert Sessions release, It's where made their debut album. The studio has played host to a who's-who in the stoner rock scene. Eagles Of Death Metal.
Fu Manchu. Brant Bjork. Masters Of Reality.
Kyuss. Mondo Generator. An episode of Anthony Bourdain's was filmed there.
's movie paid a visit. They make their own Mezcal. You get the gist.
is, naturally enough, a desert rock album. It's also a very good desert rock album, featuring riffs that throb and pummel and a guitar tone (courtesy of studio head honcho Dave Catching) that layers fuzz upon fuzz to create a sound that's entirely in keeping with the music that inspired it. It's.