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Roessler the musician and bandleader pre-dates the producer/engineer. Under the influence of Yes/Tull/ELP, Roessler wrote his first opus, the rock opera The Arc, while still in high school. The work was eventually recorded and released on vinyl in 2013. Shortly after his initial work on The Arc, Roessler took an abrupt turn and joined Screamers as one of two keyboardists in the guitar-less L.A.-based musical pioneers, labeled ‘punk rock’ for lack of anything more suitable. In the 1980s, Paul started the band Twisted Roots along with Pat Smear (Germs/Foo Fighters) and his sister Kira prior to her involvement with Black Flag. Paul also partnered on music with Mike Watt (Crimony) and Dez Cadeda (DC3), as well as joining with a wide variety of artists/bands, including 45 Grave, Nervous Gender, Geza X and the Mommymen and Nina Hagen. The subsequent years saw him join forces with Mark Curry, Prick, Lean Andreone, Gitane Demone Quartet and Josie Cotton.
His releases tend towards the epic, (the four double-album sets The Drug Years being the most extreme example), and other releases such as Galatea and Match Girl have pointed the way to the upcoming The Turning of the Bright World. Turning… covers touchstones from introspective singer/songwriter piano ballads (“Possibility of Psychic Phenomenon”) to lushly orchestrated mid-tempo pieces like “The Last Time My Head Was Right,” to the guitar-based rock of “A Quiet Night on the Mooncam” and the irresistible if deceptively upbeat “Maker” (which will also be the first video). We are excited and proud to include Paul Roessler as a Kitten Robot artist as well as the man without whom…
Paul Roessler
If you’ve been following any of the Kitten Robot news since we started, you’ve seen the name Paul Roessler a lot. He runs Kitten Robot Studios and as such has been involved as producer/engineer on Kitten Robot releases from Josie Cotton, Eddie Spaghetti & Frank Meyer, Hayley and the Crushers, Tombstones in Their Eyes, CrowJane, and the upcoming records from Harry Cloud and Glitter Wizard. When the studio lights dim and the artists go home, Roessler usually remains in the lab to conjure up a different brew- his own solo material. He’s been doing this for years, so it only seemed proper that the home team present Roessler’s latest to the world at large: The Turning of the Bright World.