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Start Date: April 20, 2021
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Multi-award winning artist Troy Kingi take us on a deeply personal discovery through an album dedicated to 70s funk, lost souls and memories.
The Ghost of Freddie Cesar is Troy Kingi’s most personal work to date – one that invites the listener to share his journey as he combs through recollections of his biological father, who disappeared while driving from Rotorua to Auckland at Christmas time in 2005. And despite extensive search efforts and sporadic reports of sightings, there has been no reliable trace of Troy’s father.
Troy’s journey begins in 2007. While going through his missing father’s belongings, Troy found a cassette tape. “It looked pretty old and had this scribbled name, Freddie Cesar on it, and on the back was just handwritten names of songs. I recognized some of the songs from my early childhood back when my parents were still together and started writing down the lyrics as a form of therapy. I must have forgotten it for a while – but sometime in 2010, I found the notebook of the songs again, but not the cassette tape, so that's when I decided to find out who Freddie Cesar was. It turns out there is very little out there about him which further compelled me to recreate something.”
Track Listing:
Side A: 1. Shake That Skinny Ass 2. Is the Honeymoon Gone? 3. Caught in the Rain 4. Through My Venetians 5. Chronophobic Disco 6. First Take Strut
Side B: 7. Nam Must Stay 8. Skylegs Jackson 9. Good Love 10. King of the Powder 11. All Your Ships Have Sailed