Album Notes

"Something For The Week" is the debut solo album from Rich Kenyon, a notable drummer from England. It's title suggests to the listener that the music is a commentary on modern life, being produced from the assumption that "the only true optimism lies in realism" (Jaz Coleman).

The artist says this on the album: "This work was recorded without any music software & as a result has a
different feel to many modern albums. It is not true to say it is a return to traditional recording techniques however, since the parts were recorded separately & it is a digital recording. The function of the work is to contemplate modern existence, not from the perspective of Virtual Reality, fashionable as that is, but Actual Reality. It is necessary to take time & depart from purely rational thought to progress this contemplation & to understand the work."

It is surely of interest to any drummer, owing to Kenyon's evolved drumming style being on display throughout, but it is wrong to think of the album as " a drummer's album"... it's appeal is far wider than that. The music has a very hard edge to it at times, with explosive rock feels but is really far more textural and expansive than most rock albums. There are some truly epic tracks on here, with 3 topping 10mins in length: the opening "The Fightback Starts Here" assaults the listener before journeying through a very sombre ambient passage; "Cell" is probably the most unusual piece on the album & flirts with cinematic & middle-eastern atmospheres, whilst "The Crowd" uses an unchanging double-bass motif reminiscent of Philip Glass or Gorecki, before layering a huge soundscape above.

You may struggle to describe this music to friends, but you surely won't want to keep it to yourself! It is refreshing to find genuinely new music.