New art and Blurb for I Know I'm An Alien (iknowimanalien) to be used in the press for upcoming events etc

I Know I'm An Alien plays guitar and sings with the help of electronics. He is based in London and was called a "gonzo pop jukebox" once, which he liked.

The following has been said about I Know I'm An Alien's debut cassette release:

"...might be a new outsider classic"
- The Wire magazine 

"A steady serfdom to bugged out, Weenish cartoonism, contagious fringe rock, and dingy weirdness"
- Tabs Out Podcast 

Influences: Ornette Coleman, Connan Mockasin, Snakefinger, Frank Zappa, Os Mutantes, Capt. Beefheart, Jimi Hendrix, Walter Willy, Procura-se Quem Fez Isso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock, Os Relogios de Frederico, John Cage, Dadaism, Space Age Pop, Al Caiola.

Art by Nik Neves
                                                                   

INTERVIEW

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Spool's Out

Alien track on last night's Spool's Out tape show for The Quietus on London's awesome and legendary Resonance FM 104.4

Check it out here

Free Form Freakout

 I Know I’m An Alien is on Free Form Freakout KMSU from Minnesota, USA. 

"Of the new material played throughout this show, I’ve been particularly drawn to the experimental metal sounds of Drose, the crude cut-up tape work of Brian Ruryk, the oddball lo-fi pop of I Know I’m An Alien..."

Thank you FFF for playing the music, gives hope and faith to this here space person to carry on and keep searching for the light in the confusing valley of material existence and physical incarnation.

http://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-78/

Jean- Michel Basquiat - Philistines. These paintings are very dear to me and an influence to me as a person and artist. It is what I think these songs would look like if I could paint them. 

Soundcloud:

Still Alien Still Dreaming (I Am Hobo Shaman)

new music_art

The Wire Magazine Review Transcription

As I wrote here yesterday ("I" being the physical manifestation of pure extraterrestrial energy and sound vibrations on this plane and "yesterday" being an allusion to time, that unreal man made illusory concept used to trap humanity in a claustrophobic state),  I Know I'm An Alien's first ever release is featured in this month's issue of The Wire Magazine, a legendary publication that's been running since 1982, which is a long time. 

I am really happy with the writer's perception of the sound content heard, and the mentioning of bands on the original Shimmy Disc label like Dogbowl and Bongwater. That feeling of knowing that there are like-minded artists out there fearlessly doing their thing is priceless. One thing I'd like to point out though is that I believe the song with the cut-up Strokes on there is actually called "Movin' Too Fast". That doesn't take much away from the review because I think the author just really wanted to get the album's most awesomest song title in the text, so I'm down.

May we all "make our own roads and determinedly follow them!"

Back to our homes in space right?

Check out the review of the Alien's printed media debut transcribed in its glorious integrity below. You can buy the magazine in object form or subscribe to read it's awesome content here: http://www.thewire.co.uk/

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I Know I'm An Alien 

I Know I'm An Alien And I Want To Go Home
Sometimes Then I Remember That I Gotta Try
And Understand You
Bandcamp CD/DL

 "If you listen you can hear the sound of one man being wilfully difficult - driven by the rancid taste of contemporary work-pub-death-drone life to claim existence as an alien called Walter Weirdheadd. If the original Shimmy Disc label was still going then this'd be right in the league of Dogbowl or Bongwater. As it is, I Know I'm An Alien's closest current ally if only in terms of approach might be the dry humoured DIY Indie of The Pheromoans. The caustic politics here is not earnest. There's also synth modulated vocals, goofing around with melodies, a really great cut-up of The Strokes' "Reptilia" in "You Know, I Find It Funny How Well Adjusted You Are To This World", and then just as random yet straight and pretty Spanish guitar instrumentals. It might actually be a new outsider classic, carrying on the time-honoured tradition of making your own road, determinedly following it, and making something's that's either going to be hailed as addictive genius or incredibly annoying."

Alien in the Media (The Good Media)

I am here to thank the awesome alternative underground media of the world, more precisely WFMU Radio and The Wire Magazine for the love shown to I Know I'm An Alien recently.

I would like to thank all the great DJs at WFMU who have been playing great tracks like "Chariots of Fire" from our first album on your awesome and far out way too amazing shows that play music for people like me, the outcasts of the world...!

Aliens unite! find your star families on Earth...!

I Know I'm An Alien's I Know I'm An Alien and I Want To Go Home Sometimes But Then I Remember I Gotta Try and Understand You is also featured in the March edition of London's legendary The Wire Magazine who said the album "might actually be a new outsider classic".

Thank you Wire Magazine, much appreciated and I am glad you like the "random yet straight and pretty Spanish guitar instrumentals".

Visit: http://www.thewire.co.uk/ where you can subscribe and read the magazine online or buy the printed version, issue #385 that's out now.

Visit:  https://wfmu.org/  (WFMU 91.1) for the best mind expanding music you will ever hear.

One Love. WW

Cover of the March issue:

Alien News

A new album to be called "Still Alien Still Dreaming" is I would say ready to be shared in the physical plane of existence, meaning CD-R and virtual internet release for now. By physical plane I mean, before becoming an actual sound the music is a thought, so sounds are the way these thoughts exist in the material world, yes. The songs mostly revolve around the themes of mind control, alien races like the Anunnaki, the fall of Atlantis due to the overuse of technology and genetic engineering and the belief the we are all creators and not sheep like the commonly held misconception. One day we will know telepathy. yeah, pretty far out stuff. This album was recorded on cassette.

And also a Meditation album called "I Know I'm An Alien Meditations" is ready for release too. It was recorded with the use of Binaural Theta Waves technology tuned in 432Hz, the natural tuning. This stuff is all online for research, find the truth dude, whoever you are. There are seven tracks each one corresponding to a Chakra (energy centers in the Human Body) and each Chakra has a musical tone in which each song was recorded in. If you are a person who doesn't relate to this world where it's at at this point in evolution with it's money oriented ways then you must certainly need to meditate to not go completely nuts with shit.

Finally, a cassette release of the first I Know I'm An Alien Album I Know I am an Alien and want to Go Home Sometimes but then I Remember That I gotta Try and Understand you  is in the plans as well. Up til now it had only been available on bandcamp and CD-R.
https://iknowimanalien.bandcamp.com/releases

A live band is being put together for amazing mind blowing performances of the pieces in that album as well as the upcoming release for gigs in London or wherever we get asked to go cause we free, ultimately we are free spirits, our Souls are just here visiting, a stroll in the park right

So yeah, Zappa is so great, but Beefheart, man, Zoot Horno Rollo solo albums, the Bozo one, Sun City Girls, what a fucking great band, they get it, they got it. And you know The Residents and Sun Ra, Renaldo and the Loaf, Terry riley, these are people that get it! And Picky Picnic from Japan.

Oh and Patti Smith, this interview here: http://www.salon.com/2015/10/05/patti_smiths_most_personal_interview_the_things_that_make_me_feel_strange_ive_transformed_them_into_work/

I'm excited about stuff.

Nine to Five (Cripples My Soul)

Video for Nine To Five by I Know I'm An Alien

Nine To Five
Cripples My Soul
One minute you're fine
And the next
You're Old

Thank you Sun City Girls

I Know I'm An Alien on WFMU

Absolute pure mystical magic as "Being At Work = Being in School" got some airplay on legendary WFMU radio, one the best and coolest radio stations in the world.

The song was played in Dance With Me, Stanley with Stashu on January 2nd of this year and had a far out, beautiful and touching performance by Stashu with the album title "I Know I'm An Alien and I Want To Go Home Sometimes But Then I Remember That I Gotta Try and Understand You" being repeated over and over drenched in reverb fading into  the cosmic nothingness of Fünf . 

That blew my mind and was one the coolest things I ever heard. 

Thank You Stashu. Thank you WFMU. I love you for Obvious reasons.

Listen here, from 0:40:48 onwards:
https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/64335

"Introducing I Know I'm An Alien" Interview for Kemptation Website

I Know I'm An Alien's Walter Weirdheadd spoke to Kemptation for an interview about humanity, his personal life story in this dimension, musical influences, inspiration, creation, the cosmos and his process of making music in this reality. He also went on to warn people about the dangers of mainstream media, reading the newspaper and watching TV and how these (not so subtle) wave forms penetrate into your subconscious mind. Word.

Here are a few quotes from the interview:

"I always felt from a very young age that I was different."

"...this first I Know I’m An Alien album was conceived around the frustration of living in a world ruled by greed, materialism and need for control. The suffocation of this meaningless nine to five world stirred me up and produced these lyrics."

"We create our realities based on what we choose to tune into, we have freewill.
I am hopeful for the human race though..."

"I don’t understand Earthlings that well, but I try to love them to the best of my ability."

Read the full interview here:

http://www.kemptation.com/features/introducing/introducing-know-im-alien/

The True Meaning of Christmas

I Know I'm An Alien

The True Meaning Of Christmas EP (2015)

Track list:

1. Silent Night
2. Christmas, The True Meaning of Christmas
3.Xmas Is Only About Buying Stuff And People Expect You To Be Happy Or This and That And Project Their Expectations On You

Merry Christmas to all Earthlings !

With Love

I Know I'm An Alien has recorded Jimi Hendrix's "Up From The Skies" from the album Axis: Bold as Love for reasons of identification. Jimi was also not from this planet, as people who introduce new ideas to humans commonly are not. It's all in the lyrics. The song is for the Prepared Guitar website tribute to Hendrix's birthday in November.

What a few Earthlings have said upon listening to I Know I'm An Alien's debut album:


"Listening to  I Know I'm An Alien now. It's melting my brain. Good-weird stuff man."
            -Matt from Caliper Music

"I Know I'm an Alien. Guaranteed to the be the weirdest brilliant music you'll hear today."
                  -Baba Yaga's Hut

"Weird and cool"
                    -Julie Tippex

"...my girlfriend came into the room when I started the first song. She immediately ran out and shouted i should turn this scary music off. Definitely gonna download this!"
                        - Captain Bee Fart

I'm an Alien I'm not from here and Sometimes (most of the time) I wanna go home but I know I have to try and understand you

The Real Story:
I Know I'm An Alien is the music made by an incarnated alien from 5th dimensional star realms in humanoid form and his impressions on current human behavior and their funny outlook on life.
Aware of the trappings of 3D reality, the artist utilizes unconventional guitar sounds and singing voice to express his awkwardness when faced with violence, greed, love for technology over living beings, war and just the plain zombie-like behavior of his fellows.
For many years, our hero attempted to live an "earthly" acceptable life just like his peers, trying to fit in with his fellows by doing drugs, drinking insane amounts of alcohol and engaging in numerous other obsessions, like sex and pornography, to escape the sad truth of failing to belong to a society whose standards he fails to comprehend.
After a while, he goes completely insane and gets committed over and over to mental institutions by the "normal" people. The absurd pain, misery and hell of depression wakes him up out of his human coma to his divine heritage and he remembers his mission on earth, which is to help others awaken to their own true nature leading them by example with his own life.
His message is that through a deep transformation of the psyche, a revolution is then possible and the Earth can and will ascend to higher dimensions towards a reality based on principles of peace, love and understanding.
This album is heavily inspired by the alien's attempt at a "normal" 9-5 slave-like job in one of the world's largest zombie filled metropolises that cripples his Soul on a daily basis and tries to dominate and block his creative nature. His short-haired, polo-shirt-wearing, virtual-reality-loving co-workers indulge in their money-chasing, reality-escaping lives all week long seeking ferociously for the Holy Grail of fulfillment to their lives: getting wasted at the pub on Friday night.