“The lyrics are personal, deep and imaginative...a unique and fantastic accomplishment from start to finish...From the get-go, “Across the Ocean” sucks me in fast with a funky pick-plucking bass lick and I’m hooked until I am given a comforting exit with “Owl.””
“Knight speaks openly about the punk ethos behind his songs — rarely is a track longer than two or three minutes — and brings a new dynamic to an often formulaic genre”
RISKY CALM ODDITY
WAS RECORDED AND MIXED IN DTLA BY MY DEAR FRIEND, SAMUR KHOUJA, OWNER AT SEAHORSE SOUND STUDIOS. IT WAS MASTERED BY JUSTIN LOOMIS AT TNS MASTERING.
THE FOLLOW-UP ALBUM THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY FINISHING, HELLO, DALÍ, FEATURES MY DEAR FRIEND, THE MULTI-TALENTED, WILLIAM RYAN FRITCH.
THANKS FOR LISTENING.
-TRAVIS
Risky Calm Oddity
Risky Calm Oddity is the debut solo album from Travis Knight. Knight wrote and performed all the parts on the album, crafting a folk-based journey, made up of short, punk rock-length, indie-alternative tunes about living in solitary, the woes of urban life, police corruption, and fireside omens from an owl.
music & lyrics written/performed by Travis Knight
engineered & mixed by Samur Khouja, Seahorse Sound Studios
mastered by Justin Loomis, TNS Mastering
produced by Travis Knight
cover photo and additional photography by Jack Stahl
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Hello, Dalí.
Photos by JOSH A. KATZ
Hello, Dalí is my second solo album, and I'm stoked to share it with you. On Risky Calm Oddity, I played every instrument. On my follow up, I went to Petaluma, CA to record in a converted chicken coop recording studio in the wine country there. Samur Khouja joined me at Ryan Fritch's farmland abode for one weekend at the beginning of each of the last two summers, and the three of us made a magical album. Ryan I have known each other since the '90s in Florida and have played music with each other for almost twenty years. Having his lush strings and one-of-a-kind rhythms accompany my arrangements really gives the album a lift and brightness of the orange groves where we grew up.
If you haven't heard the wonderful music of William Ryan Fritch, please do yourself a favor and visit the whimsical world of my friend's myriad albums, soundtracks, film scores, and other musical wonders at www.williamryanfritch.com.
-TK
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