Cool Rainbows

Cool Rainbows
Origin Auckland, New Zealand
Genres psychedelic music, indie pop
Years active 2009–present
Labels Lil' Chief Records
Associated acts Trees Climbing Trees
Nova Echo
Cut Off Your Hands
Robot Tigers
Website Official Facebook
Members Djeisan Suskov
Alex Freer
Cass Mitchell
Emily Suskov

Cool Rainbows is psychedelic indie pop band based in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the project of singer-songwriter Djeisan Suskov. According to a review, "Cool Rainbows make psychedelic indie pop music that is backed by swirling orchestration and layered dreamscapes of sound."[1] They released their debut album, Whale Rocket, in 2012 on Lil' Chief Records.

History

Founding

Cool Rainbows was founded as a musical collective and solo project of Djeisan (pronounced "Jason") Suskov, a New Zealand musician.[2] Other members of the collective include Paul Roper, Alex Freer, Cass Mitchell, Jonathan Pearce and Suskov's wife Emily Suskov.[3]

Before founding the band, Suskov had been involved in music from a young age; his father founded Revolver Studios when Suskov was nine, and by the age of thirteen he was helping around the studio.[1] Djeisan later maintained close ties with various studios as a producer,.[4] Suskov went on to serve as frontman for the 2000 post punk band Nova Echo,[4] which later evolved into Cut Off Your Hands. He also played with the art rock band Robot Tigers and the indie rock band Trees Climbing Trees.[1]

2012 debut album

Around 2009 Suskov began writing the songs for the band's 2012 debut album.[3] As influences for the album, he quoted the Chills, the Clean and David Kilgour's solo material, The Bats, Tall Dwarves and Chris Knox. He also referenced "a lot of 60s 70s rock 'n roll stuff like The Beatles, John Cale, Byrds, Neil Young...stuff that sounds real or honest to me and I can hear the heart of it."[3]

He used both production gear at Revolver Studios and his own laptop for initial recordings, and the album was then produced by Jonathan Bree of Lil' Chief Records in Auckland.[3] Suskov included a large number of friends in the process,[3] with Alex Freer, Cass Mitchell, Paul Roper, Jonathan Pearce and his wife Emily Suskov as core performers.[3] Other musicians on the album include Hayden East, Rikki Sutton, Micheal Ramirez, and Paul McIver.[3]

The album Whale Rocket was released on Lil' Chief Records in 2012, with a video for the track "Reality and a Clue" released that July.[5] As of June 2012, the band features seven live musicians at a time on stage.[4]

Members

Permanent
Rotating

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Cool Rainbows". Amplifier.nz. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
  2. ↑ "Cool Rainbows!". Bread and Butter Letter.com. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "Cool Rainbows / Djeisan Suskov interview". Sounzgood. March 7, 2012. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Hartung, Silke (June 2012). "Fresh Talent: Cool Rainbows". NZ Musician. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
  5. ↑ Limbrick, Anthony (July 25, 2012). "Cool Rainbows - Lights". JZMusic4u.com. Retrieved 2013-04-13.

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