CAPRAdelic 01.1: To Arrive at the Beginning

Round about midnight one week ago I pulled in to Los Angeles by way of Arizona and the state border inspection station and caught the 101 and Clueless. As it sometimes goes with California time my earliness wasn’t a good thing because my host was out at dinner. Countless illegal phone juggles, three freeway turnarounds and a surprise traffic jam later I shimmied off at Cahuenga and threw a hard port-side u-turn to meet with Kelly Blatz, CAPRA's vocalist, on the shoulder lane where he patiently bumped the Kills in a bent fedora, Batman t and a signature congenial manner. We greeted for the first time since "April Showers" premiered in Omaha and dove in to the 101 Diner for a pot of coffee and my first food in a twelve-hour stretch. After filling in the gaps of life information since February we turned to music with fervor. Since listening to “Gypsy Jones” a few times during the drive I was eager to ask,

Q: “How has the newer music grown from your favorite parts of Gypsy?”
Kelly: “In all directions, man. When we first came together each of us had different things we loved, and Gypsy let us bring it all together. But now, well, we’re running with it and doing more. You’ve gotta hear what I mean.”

Of course I wanted to hear tracks, not only because I’d be working with them, but even more so because who doesn’t love some fresh music? We killed the bottom of the coffee pot that had compelled us to begin, right then and there, the artistic exchange between songwriter and filmmaker that we'd spent a year discussing. Immediately we drove home to burn a demo CD of the latest EXTRA-ROUGH cuts to embark on the multimedia story of CAPRA’s next album and beyond. I’ll be our writer/photographer/editor tour guide.


Catch the first installment of Kelly’s exclusive video interview below, CAPRAdelic 01.2.

Use your voice.
MC

CAPRAdelic 01.2: Image Echoes