This song came about when I heard the initial groove that Bruce was working on. It had been awhile since we had worked on something groovy, and we really dug into it. The groove was very easy to dance around with the verse melody, and it brought a confidence and sensual nature out.

Every album I think we do something that strikes more of a sensual/sexual chord, from s+m (a love song), k, to spank to lick u clean. F2theF definitely falls into that category–but as all of them, have other psychological meanings. To me, F2theF also has a feeling of getting into someone’s mind.

F2theF

Your soldiers all in play

You’re looking motivated

I’m doing things that are not me

You wanna freak to the funk and then funk with me

Smooth an so cool

Breaking my rules

It can be anything you could want it to be

Spinning on a planet cloud

Can’t see a thing but I feel the sound

Of the low and down pounding beat

Freak to the funk and then funk with me

My favorite place to be

Out of a dream, and into the scene

Take a wet bite out of me

Freak to the funk and then funk with me

Smooth an so cool

Breaking my rules

Anything you want, freak it to the funk

It’s a low and down undercover

Come down

Low and down undercover

How did I get to this place

You’re looking motivated

And I’m not me

(F2theF and then F with me)

You’re soldiers all in play

You’re so motivated

And I’m not me

I’m not me.

A hobby of mine has always been unconscious/subconscious, man and his symbols, personal myths and psychology—the things that drive us on a primal level, that on some level we know, or choose to not know about.

I read a book during the time Bruce and I met about how all alphabets are linked intrinsically, through their vibration, meaning; that we all vibrationally come up with the same things, but are just a result of our physical existence/demographic. It was another thing that made me realize, for lack of sounding trite, we are all One.

The K and the T, playing around, and noticed that I could get a few symbols out of it: a greater than sign (>), less than sign (<) and an equal sign (=), as well as Pi (π) all enclosed in a circle (unity). Translate: Everything greater than and less than makes an equal balance, Unity is around and inside the Circle of Life. We are ALL EQUAL.

For me, the symbol took the focus away from the “band” and made it about something else. Bruce and I do what we do, but in the Love of music, ultimately is not about ego/us. It is about inspiring, expiring, sharing and giving. We are just the shells of which this passes through.

Now, if you don’t care about this shit, and you think the KT logo is just cool to look at, that’s fine with me too. As you know, we do get into the deep, but we also can turn it all around, be decadent, and just rock/feel good for the sake of it!

p+l

fd

Kidneythieves will be guests on SuicideGirls Radio this Sunday night, September 25th from 10pm – Midnight (PST) to discuss their new EP The Invisible Plan. You can listen in live on Indie1031.com and can ask Free and Bruce questions + chat live on air by dialing the studio hotline digits on Sunday between 10pm and Midnight PST: 877-900-1031

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All Good Things

Let’s cut to the chase:

We got a new EP for you: THE INVISIBLE PLAN

Who wants one? Pre-orders are September 20, 2011. Ship/Release date: October 18, 2011. You get something really special for pre-ordering….a surprise that you will know soon.

Why an EP? All album stories link from the first (Trickster). THE INVISIBLE PLAN is a prelude to the story of our next full album, which I’m not gonna give you quite yet. What am I if I’m not a tease. We already have songs started for the next full length.

Album story themes go like this:

Trickster: Cutting illusion, digging into the dirt, using your fire. How do you grow from that? Zer0space: Once you have the fire, how do you balance your internal world with your external world? Trypt0fanatic: Now that balance is attained, how do you pull the power of the dream into waking life for survival?

THE INVISIBLE PLAN: This is the ammunition you need, and to gather others in your circle, to create a united front to face the changes and challenges in the world. You can’t do it alone. How do you live your life so that THINGS FIND YOU?

p+l

fd

Kidneythieves: Free Dominguez recording “Floating Angels” from the forthcoming release The Invisible Plan, coming fall 2011

Fear is Afraid of This
(A lyric from “Floating Angels” off The Invisible Plan.)

I remember writing this phrase down sometime when I was in NYC summer 2001. What is the worst fear and how do you make it stop. And I thought, “Make fear afraid that it won’t have power anymore.” I had a visual of that melting witch chick in The Wizard of Oz.

Afraid of failure, afraid of being alone, afraid of the dark, afraid of not having love, afraid of cilantro, afraid, afraid, yippity whathaveyou.

The quote “Worry [fear] is using your imagination for something you DON’T want to happen” I’ve said to myself many times. I’d like to imagine better things. Fear is a teacher. Not an existence.

You could think of continual fear as “unsustainable emotion.” It deters growth. Recycle it as fuel for success. Eco-emotional.

“Fear is afraid of This, Don’t be afraid of This.”

This is part of The Invisible Plan.

p+l

Well guys, I flew to NYC to get a bunch of stuff done for The Invisible Plan, record release party, etc. On my way there, there was an earthquake not far from NYC, so we had to circle around because of tower issues, almost ran out of gas, quickly landed in Pittsburgh to re-fuel to finally get in late.

Lots of great things coming out of meeting with everyone, our PR firm is amazing: They are all about spreading good vibes and consciousness—no fluff. Even some surprises came our way!

Hurricane Irene: A Change of Plans

I had planned to come home Monday, but Hurricane Irene changed that; Could be hopefully back by Friday, and by some miracle, home Wed. We may or may not miss deadlines, it is too soon to tell. But this is Mama Nature’s conjuring, so if we have to push The Invisible Plan store another week, please bear with. You will know *all* soon.

Send good thoughts to everyone on the East Coast. NYC has a lot of glass, a lot of flooding. I have been shipped to a friend’s house 20 min outside of Manhattan, with a basement and all.

In the meantime, Bruce will do what he can in the studio, while I am gone, and I have my studio with me. I’ve already written a piano song that I think will be a nice thing to add to our next works.

Let’s bow down to what rules: Nature. She always wins.

p+l

fd

Extensive Interview with Free and Bruce Part 1 is HERE / Part 2 is HERE

Interview video

3月2日に発売された、ファイナルファンタジーのサウンドトラック、”God in Fire”のプロダクションについて、フリーと、ブルースのインタビューが見られます。