Audible Minority
Audible Minority is the seventh full-length studio album by Indonesian experimental metal band Kekal. According to the band, the album is titled "Audible Minority" because the music on the album is of extreme minority status, and is "entirely bleak, gloom and dark." They also said that the album was constructed over almost two years, during various events in the band members lives.[1][2] Jeff Arwadi recorded the entire songs on this album all by himself, and started shortly after he moved to Canada in 2006.
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| Released | 25 December 2008 | |||
| Recorded | The Palace Room Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Jeff Arwadi's mobile laptop | |||
| Genre | Experimental metal, electronic rock | |||
| Length | 1:05:09 | |||
| Label | Self-released, Whirlwind | |||
| Producer | Jeff Arwadi | |||
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There is an official music video for the song "Narrow Avenue".[3]
The album was originally supposed to be released by a now-defunct record label NePlusUltra Music in CD format in December 2008, with the first pressing a special digipak release that was hand-numbered and limited to 777 copies.[4] Unfortunately, the physical release never came about, and the album was released instead as a free digital download on 25 December 2012.[5][6] In December 2012, four years after the initial release date, the album was finally being released physically, as a bonus-CD of the limited hand-numbered deluxe double-CD edition of a 2012 Kekal album Autonomy, while the free download version had been discontinued in favor of the paid download, which is now made available on the band's Bandcamp page.[7] The A-ha cover song "Locust" is not included on the CD version, but included as a hidden bonus track on the digital download version.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Jeff Arwadi except where noted
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Vampire Song" | 6:02 | |
| 2. | "Conditional Destiny" | 6:16 | |
| 3. | "Against" | 5:53 | |
| 4. | "Ceasefire Negative" | 5:43 | |
| 5. | "Between Us" | 6:25 | |
| 6. | "For the Greater Good and Evil" | 7:50 | |
| 7. | "Narrow Avenue" | 4:21 | |
| 8. | "Virtue of Perseverance" | 7:50 | |
| 9. | "Shuffling Biorhythms" | 4:50 | |
| 10. | "All That Matters" | 5:08 | |
| 11. | "Locust" (A-ha cover) | Paul Waaktaar-Savoy | 4:53 |
Personnel
Additional credits:
- Jeff – preparation, sampling, arrangement, performance and programming
- Jeff – production, engineering, mixing and mastering
- Jelena Glisic – additional engineering on "The Vampire Song"
- Darryl Neudorf – production inputs
- Damon de Szegheo – production inputs
References
- Kekal. "Audible Minority (2008)". Kekal.org. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
- HM Staff (August 2008). "HM News Update: Week Ending 8-3". HM Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
- Spitonself (15 April 2008). "KEKAL - Narrow Avenue (Official Music Video)". YouTube. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- "Kekal's New Album Due in December". Blabbermouth.net. Roadrunner Records. 6 October 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
"Kekal Completes Work on New Album". Blabbermouth.net. Roadrunner Records. 30 July 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2011. - Van Pelt, Doug. "News Update: Week of 4-12". HM Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
- Kekal. "Audible Minority". Bandcamp. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
- Kekal.org. "Autonomy". Kekal. Retrieved 29 August 2013.