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The Cakekitchen
12+ albums
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The Cakekitchen was a band from New Zealand featuring Graeme Jefferies (formerly of Nocturnal Projections and This Kind of Punishment). Formed by Jefferies in 1991, the first lineup included Robert Key and Rachael King. The band later became a project in which Jefferies plays most instruments alongside various sidemen including Keith McLean, Huw Dainow, the talents of many of Flying Nun's elder statesmen: Alastair Galbraith, Hamish Kilgour, as well as 'the only great French drummer' (according to their US label, Merge Records), Jean-Yves Douet. Jefferies has made an indelible mark on New Zealand's fertile underground scene, most notably with The Cakekitchen and his prior band, This Kind of Punishment, a collaboration with his equally influential brother Peter. Both men possess thick, deep voices which, along with their use of 4- and 8-track recording equipment, elemental sounds and non-traditional rock instrumentation (violin, recorder), distinguishes their music from that of their contemporaries. Although billed as a solo record, Messages for the Cakekitchen is effectively the first Cakekitchen album. Sparser and darker than the official band work to follow, it's more in keeping with the homemade recordings of his Xpressway label brethren. At times, his vocals sound vaguely gothic ("Reason to Keep Swimming"), while the music alternates between tension-filled electric guitar arrangements ("All the Colours Run Dry"), deliberate acoustic ones ("Nothing That's New") and combi
top songs
albums
Time Flowing Backwards
World Of Sand
Stompin' Thru the Boneyard
Stories For Late At Night
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Stompin Thru The Boneyard
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How Can You Be So Blind
Kangaroos In My Top Paddock
Trouble Again in This Town
Far From the Sun
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Flying Nun 25th Anniversary Boxset (Disc 2)
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
How Can You Be So Blind?