Sunday, December 20, 2009

Kong Also Lives on Cult Rock Album

As King Kong hits cine screens, admirers can aswell acquaintance their abbey hero on record, in Allen Shadow's album "King Kong Serenade," which has become a band archetypal in its own right.

NEW YORK, N.Y., -- As King Kong allotment to the awning this month, admirers can aswell acquaintance their abbey hero on record, in Allen Shadow's album "King Kong Serenade," which has become a band archetypal in its own right.

A noirish canticle to New York City, "Serenade" gives Kong top announcement as it beatifies the circuitous icon.

"Kong has become a allegorical figure, inseparable from this harder city of dreamers," said Shadow, a bedrock artist who critics accept compared to Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen and even Walt Whitman.

The alarmingly acclaimed album, which offers a abrasive account of Gotham, from its acclaimed icons to its blighted ghosts, casts Kong as angel saint of poets, painters, dreamers and losers.

"Kong plays an even beyond role in our psyches than he does on screen," said Shadow. "Somehow, we adulation him as acutely as we abhorrence him.

"He's the agrarian in us, unleashed and command large. Who a allotment of us can crop our eyes off him for a moment."

In the appellation clue of "Serenade," artist Allen Ginsberg celebrates and ordains the abundant beneath ape, who is pictured dancing down Broadway to a choir of saxophones. Through Shadow's post-modern opus, the barbarian presides over a sideshow of acclaimed and bright characters who abide songs about Times Square, Coney Island and the Bronx.

The Berkshire Eagle calls Shadow "an aboriginal storyteller, painting active portraits of the affair and alarm of activity in the world's greatest city." NY Rock says, "The disc ("Serenade") smokes and burns like beef advancing out of a manhole cover, abrasive and authentic."

To bless Kong's return, Shadow has fabricated chargeless copies of the appellation song, "King Kong Serenade" accessible online at http://www.allenshadow.com. Shadow's songs are aswell accessible on such download casework as iTunes.

Media kit accessible aloft request.

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