Artist Bio
After 10 years writing and recording with multi-platinum band Goldenhorse Kirsten Morrell is going solo. ULTRAVIOLET is the name of the new album. All the tracks are still top secret. The mercurial Jol Mulholland has co-produced the record with Kirsten. Geoff Maddock, her Goldenhorse collaborator, is heard on a range of instruments throughout the recording. These three musicians have created something very special. The 12 songs range from synth-heavy electro-pop to brooding, chugging laments with Kirsten’s singular voice tying the whole project together.
Kirsten Morrell is knocking her live band into shape in a Vermont St rehearsal space in Ponsonby. The boys have been pouring over the tracks from her new album that she has spent the last two years producing. 12 tracks have been recorded, half in London, half here in New Zealand.
Friday Boy is the second single from Kirsten Morrell’s debut solo album ULTRAVIOLET. In a departure from her Goldenhorse days she has largely dispensed with a band in the studio preferring the immediacy of working with multi-instrumentalist and producer Jol Mulhullond. During the recording he built and broke the instrumental several times before he was happy. Layering synths and beats relentlessly from under a curly mop of hair through which he could hardly see his keyboards and machines. Mid-way through the session Mulhullond picked up a Ganjo (basically a banjo tuned like a guitar). His first pass is what you hear on the recording. Kirsten’s lead vocal take was equally inspired before she proceeded to improvise a series of harmonies. She sang layer after layer until the chorus swirled and swum in lush vocals. After an endless session everybody was dancing round the control room.
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