The tortured genius of the rev. J Kinkaid

Boxed up in my little room
Cassette recorders and a laptop
Bashing my head against a brick wall
Imperfect and broken
Revealing what lies underneath

The japanese understand this

Wabi-sabi means imperfect or incomplete beauty. This is a central concept in Japanese aesthetics, which comes from Buddhist teachings on the transient nature of life. A pot with uneven edges is more beautiful than a perfectly smooth one, because it reminds us that life is not perfect. A Japanese craftsman will intentionally add in a small flaw after completing his perfect work in honour of this concept.

Kintsugi (金継ぎ), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い), is the practise of mending broken pottery with gold or silver to fill the cracks. This is a perfect example of wabi-sabi. Rather than rejecting a broken item, you can find a way to make it even more beautiful. This practise accepts the break as part of the object’s unique history.

Who am i... ?

Low-fi, garage/folk guitar based, outsider, anti music, poet?

The Rev. jonny Kinkaid,
AKA jon kent, Jonny Nashville and jon.k


Founder member of the Groove Farm and Beatnik Filmstars. played in Kyoko, Block and Airbomb Repeater.
Now playing the electric guitar in The (Arrest!) Charlie Tipper Conspiracy/Experiment and working on my solo projects.

Perhaps like me you have that same fascination and excitement on hearing your favorite artists demo tapes. Hearing those familiar songs you love so much stirpped down to their bare bones, raw and newly born. This is what this LP is about. its anti production. It's allowing the song to be exactly what they're supposed to be. no thrills, no tricks, no hiding.
I hope you fall in love with these songs as I have.

All the best, the rev.!