“August Darnell/Kid Creole has always been a master of a dark story delivered under the most danceable and light sounding music and I really wondered what he had to offer in his first album for 10 years. The gleefully multifarious August Darnell released his 15th studio album in Sept.
The band was an amalgam of bygone outsized personas like Jimmy Durante, Carmen Miranda, and of course, Cab Calloway, its music navigating the waters between disco, calypso, show tunes, soul, big band, pop, funk, and new wave.” (Andy Beta) “Darnell’s band Kid Creole and the Coconuts is the finest iteration of his musical razzmatazz. Kid Creole won best International Live Act Award. He explored reggae and calypso through a prism of funk, pop, new wave, and disco.”(Christian John Wikane) Michael Jackson, August Darnell, Paul McCartney at the British Music Awards in 1983. “Darnell unveiled a project that would both define his career and subvert notions of category in pop music – Kid Creole and the Coconuts. His body of work has kept him relevant well into the 21st century his songs have been sampled by Ghostface Killah, M.I.A., Cee Lo Green, and the Avalanches (to name a few), and the growing interest in New York’s disco history via acts such as LCD Soundsystem, !!!, and Hercules and Love Affair has further prolonged interest.” (Andy Beta) “Darnell charted the glorious polyglot pop music of New York City in the 1970s and ’80s as well as any one individual could. “The beauty of music is its possibilities for mutation, and that mutation represents a larger global ideal: global coexistence.” Indeed. The Kid Creole credo is best summed up by August Darnell himself: His best songs are dazzlingly witty: they can also be sarcastic, ambiguous, deceptively eager to please. It’s pop as a moving target, brightly-colored –even garish, but rich with shades of grey.” (David Peschek) “In other times, Darnell might have been called a wit. Fast forward to 30 years later and the man and his band are still synonymous with over the rainbow adventure: Deluxe Escapism. Darnell jumped ship in 1980 and formed Kid Creole and the Coconuts with his then wife Adriana Kaegi who originally created all the choreography and costumes, and his buddy Coati Mundi. Disillusioned by the politics in his big brother’s band, Dr. The visionary was Bronx born August Darnell.
To be sure, in the beginning there was a need to present an invitation to a dance called Escapism.
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In the beginning there was a vision by Kid Creole – the vision of a multicultural carnival without stylistic limitations the vision of a colorful theater with fascinating characters the vision of an exuberant joyous lifestyle full of irony, humor and sophistication. Darnell jumped ship in 1980 and formed Kid Creole and the Coconuts with his then wife Adriana Kaegi who created the Coconuts, and his buddy Sugar Coated Andy.
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