RIP Kristopher Kemp: 10.28.74 -- 01.26.09
The first in a multi-part tribute for Kristov has been posted by DieTrich Thrall on his official blogzine. **updated: excerpt of parts 1 & 2 now posted below - read the FULL tribute segments @ www.ItsAThrallWorld.com **
www.ItsAThrallWorld.com
Anyone interested in how MARAZENE became the band that it is today should check it out.
Thanks again for your continued support.
Excerpt from part 1: "Minneapolis Meets Chicago"
"Kris had seen the future but as it turns out - it wasn't with the band I had moved down to Chicago to join. In fact, he bailed out of that situation completely within several months of my relocation. Kris had been working on some dark, heavy, electronic musical filth on the side with a guitar player named Nikk Skum. Kris introduced me to Nikk at a Dope concert held at Chicago's Metro Cabaret Theater on one of our many inebriation excursions.
From the onset Nikk and I hit it off and we talked about working together and putting together an album of covers for shits and giggles. But once we got into the studio together and started jamming the symmetry of our writing styles became obvious and we went with that instead. Our first jam sessions ended up being ridiculously productive and everything pointed to an inevitable destiny. There was a magic in the air in those early days.
Nikk and I would eventually go on to write the 'MachiNation' album in 2005-2006 as well as loads of other tracks that didn't make the album. The two of us really had a knack for complimenting each others songwriting. Together, Kris, Nikk, and myself would refine that material at dozens of Chicagoland area shows. As of this writing, 'MachiNation', stands as one of my most important life acheivements and I'm only happy to be able to say that Kris played a critical role in that achievement."
Excerpt from part 2: "Kristov - 1, Cancer - 0"
"Cancelling the CD shows seemed the obvious thing to do – but nothing was ever really that obvious in those days. It would have destroyed the momentum we had built up for our album and I don’t see how the math would have added up to us taking part on the National tours in ‘07. We definitely would not have been prepared for them. Odds are we would never have left Chicago and we would have always been remembered as the band that could have been. Our detractors would have loved that.
For the most part, Kris and the band received a tremendous outpouring of support from our friends in the Chicagoland area but there were a couple of notable local nitpickers and naysayers that had been doing their best to derail the bands overall progress that we had been making by stirring up the pot about “leaving Kris behind” and all sorts of nonsense. But these people never had the bands best interests in mind. These were just a few people voicing an invalid opinion about a band and a collaboration that they never really fully understood. Kris, Nikk, and myself were determined to make a musical statement the likes of which the city of Chicago would always remember.
There had to be another way and Kris and I spoke about the pros and cons of cancelling or postponing this event or that event at one of my hospital visits. Our focus was always on building for the future but that didn’t mean we weren’t keen to the possibility of obstacles along the way.
What we eventually decided to do was to turn our CD show in to a sort of tribute to Kris’s struggle and with Kris’s blessing we agreed to play the out of town shows with a sub drummer. Kris believed in our album. And he was determined to fight like hell to rejoin us as soon as he could to help push it. So with the bands complete understanding and unified from the get-go we set our sites like we wrote our music – with a bigger picture in mind.
Marazene always planned for the future – and Kris was always a part of that plan."courtesy: De Los Santos Productions
MARAZENE circa 04.21.06: Kristov, Stiph, Thrall, Gash, Skum - backstage after A Pearl Room performance with American Head Charge. This picture was taken only weeks before Kris would be diagnosed with cancer. courtesy ECP
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