Califone is an acclaimed musical project centered around Tim Rutili and a regular and rotating list of contributors.
Formed out of the Chicago band Red Red Meat, they’ve been exploring the tension between experimental noise, acoustic texture, technology, humanity, cinematic images and microscopic poetry since 1998 with over a dozen albums of sleeper hits and enduring classics.
Kiran Leonard
Kiran Leonard’s unique and ambitious body of work spans more than a decade of frenetic noise rock, ornate avant-folk, DIY no-fi, and everything in between. First becoming known as a teenager for his unpredictable and home-recorded chamber-prog epics such as “Bowler Hat Soup” (2013) and “Grapefruit” (2016), his more recent work has crystallised a vast aesthetic scope into a focused and singular voice. 2024’s “Real Home” brings a newfound streak of candid and clear-cut melodicism to the elaborate, formalist qualities of his writing and arranging.
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