Myspace Trawl- Khonnor
It’s crap getting older; you can’t do much, going to the toilet seems to get harder and, worst of all, little kids abuse you in the street.
Well they do if you don’t meet their demands of fetching them super strength cider and the occasional packet of Benson & Hedges. Talking of our cherished youngsters, we are apparently meant to respect them because they’re the future of tomorrow.
Granted, that statement is true to an extent – you won’t see a pensioner dishing out chips in a café or cleaning pigeon shit off the roads. Those jobs are for kids with their energy and eagerness. However, it’s not always great to praise everything the younger generation do. Especially when they’re ridiculously better at it then you. Khonnor is only 18-20 but he’s already crafted albums and EPs of electronic beauty. The rascal.
We say 18-20, because we aren’t actually sure how old he is. According to the press release for his first physical release, he’s 16 – but this was back in 2004. Because Khonnor isn’t splashed around the music papers everyday, we’ve had problems keeping track of what he’s been up to.
Sadly we’ve had to resort to the poor man encyclopaedia – otherwise known as Wikipedia. You know the one where any retard can make it seem that Stuart Heritage killed the last dragon known to man, or that CJ Davies single-handily built the Edinburgh to London railway. For once however, we must praise Wikipedia for spewing up a few interesting bits of information. But the best thing is the links to lots of free releases by Khonnor in various forms. Linky at the bottom for you money-shy folk!
In his short life, he has released music under the names Grandma, Gaza Faggot and I, Cactus. For the time being, Khonnor seems to be the alias he chooses to go by. Probably because he’s called Connor Kirby-Long. We know. We’d make ace detectives.
So what’s good about him apart from his age? Most importantly it’s the sheer quality of the music coming out from him and his basic set-up. There are no £1000 bits of complicated-looking hardware and priceless microphones to capture a clean vocal. From what we know about him, his production is done using things that pretty much anyone can afford and experiment with.
Frequently floating between haunting ambiance and light electronica, the releases have been compared to other Godlike geniuses performing this sort of stuff. From Aphex Twin to Brian Eno, people are not scared to associate him with those names. Tracks such as Cantelopps flicker and break gently before bubbling twinges of soft electronic orchestral delight take over. Whilst it’s not on his debut album Handwriting, it is out on the internet for download.
Oddly for us, we’ll hint at what we’ll bring you next week. In only seven days, you can look forward to another youngster making ace music. However, the nerds may be out to shout at us again. It’s the return of Chip music! Oh no! After looking at his gear, we are sure it qualifies as this, but we’re ready to use our newly installed panic room in case we get anyone upset and face a backlash of Lucozade bottles and sausage roll wrappers being thrown at us.
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