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).
Music
Selected Coverage
Listen: Island Wastrel - “Grace” + “Empireman” -- Obscure Sound
A couple new singles from Finnish artist Island Wastrel impress in their intimate yet melodic prowess, spanning from the piano-laden folk of “Grace” to the peppier rock chirpiness within “Empireman.” Both come via Island Wastrel’s newly released EP, Songs from Fleet Meadow. “Grace” commences with a fuzzed-out range of guitar distortion, quickly assuming a quainter character as comforting acoustic strums intermingle with serene piano. Lyrical ruminations on truth, grace, and fortune arise into introspective questioning, stirring into a thankful central chorus — celebrating the pure beauty of being alive as snippets of electric guitars cohesively enter the fold. Meanwhile, “Empireman”
Mike Mineo