Island Wastrel
Song maker / engineer (ex RAK studios; Kate Nash, Baaba Maal, etc.)
Island Wastrel is a song project built from broken signals and warped tradition... folk forms, jazz memory, village-pub hauntings.
Adie Kaye trained as a studio engineer. He’s made clean records. This isn’t that. It’s single takes, wrong-foot melodies, and a voice that doesn’t know what decade it’s in.
As an engineer at London’s RAK Studios, Kaye worked with Kate Nash, Bernard Butler, The Last Shadow Puppets, Gallows, Garth Richardson, Ray Davies, Mark Ronson, and more. He trained under dub legend Groucho Smykle (Sly & Robbie, Black Uhuru, Baaba Maal).