But it turned out great and we’re working on our next record right now.
That’s kind of how we ended up just doing this record, this next one, just for fun as a one off thing. It just made a lot of sense to keep the band going. But when I stopped working there, everybody was still around and still wanting to play music. I moved away from working there and so, inevitably, the band stopped being a band that was part of Mars Hill Church’s label. I transitioned from working at Mars Hill Church. We’re looking forward to be able to put out LPs from now on basically. We have so many influences and inspirations to draw from. Now that we’re independent, we’re kind of able to just go for it, and we hope to be putting out a record a year. I mean, we’ve put out four EPs, obviously there’s a lot there. We’ve been itching to and we definitely have plenty of material. In the four years you’ve been together, why haven’t you put out a full-length? We took over this middle school for the night and left about midnight. Then just, you know, played basketball in the gym to take a break, and it was just fun. We got to the middle school in the afternoon and played every song a few times.
We were going to be making videos and live performance videos, but it turned out so cool that we decided to actually release it as a live EP featuring a bunch of songs that will be on our forthcoming debut full-length record. It was super spur of the moment and just really fun. How was that recording compared to the other recordings you guys had done previous? I honestly watched the 30 minute little documentary and the whole thing is you’re set up in a circle in the cafeteria. You, guys, just put out a new record called “Live in Color.”Ĭompletely live. We like to do a lot of stuff with drums, because I grew up making beats for rappers and stuff like that, so I just kind of have it in my blood, in my DNA, to really like drums. I grew up as a hip-hop DJ, so that was always a big influence, and kind of why we have two drummers. Then, like, the Mars Volta and some various rock bands. It was made up of stuff we liked, so at the time, my biggest influences were Broken Social Scene, a band called Anathollo and Radiohead. When you guys started that band, what was the sound that you were going for on a worship and for a college church campus?
It was a bunch of kind of college kids.Īt the beginning, the average age of the band was under 21. We started when I first started working for Mars Hill Church and we were planting a new Mars Hill Church on the campus of the University of Washington. How long have you been doing King’s Kaleidoscope? We did a Good Friday live, a short hymns EP and then a Christmas EP last year. You guys put out quite, a handful of EPs, a Christmas cover record and, I believe, another cover record earlier, a couple years ago. I was working there as a worship director, and King’s Kaleidoscope was the band that I led there. Yes, I worked there for a little over four years up until recently. You, guys, are one of a handful of bands that have launched out of Mars Hill Church with their Mars Hill music label. King’s Kaleidoscope from Seattle, Washington. HM: Tell us your name and your weapon of choice.Ĭhad Gardner: My name is Chad Gardner, and I like to sing and play guitar. Now, four years later, I had the chance to talk to Chad about their move to Bad Christian and what the future holds for the band. I found it very interesting that he brought his love of “wordly” music to the table when writing songs while he was a college campus worship leader with Mars Hill. I went in to this interview knowing very little about Chad Gardner and his band of merry minstrels.
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