This is a Full Album Stream of Kevin King Regime's debut album "CALL TO ACTION!", released Tuesday, February 11th, 2025. We are unbelievably excited to share this record with the world.
If you would like to support the band by purchasing the album via Bandcamp, please see the link below. We are not putting this album on Spotify.
CD/Bandcamp Link: https://kevinkingregime.bandcamp.com/album/call-to-action/
Other links:
Band Website: https://www.kevinkingregime.com/
Band Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevinkingregime/
Thank you for listening.
Tracklist:
0:00 - 1. Call to Action
8:38 - 2. Elegy
12:25 - 3. Sankara
18:30 - 4. Riot
23:19 - 5. Red Summer
Liner notes, written by Allen Xu:
"It has been five years now since the massive anti-police rebellions and protests of 2020. The spontaneous rebellions, nucleating first at the site of George Floyd’s murder, then across the nation and the globe, placed front-and-center the irreconcilable contradictions of racial capitalism in the Amerikan psyche. As heart-wrenching images of Black pain and suffering at the hands of the state lingers still in the public consciousness, these antagonisms have become impossible to deny. Amerika, even for all its efforts in quashing radical thought and class consciousness in the proletariat and American left, could not completely stamp out the revolutionary nature of the Black proletariat. As time goes on, it only becomes more and more clear that liberal notions of reform are not a viable path to freedom. Freedom cannot be voted in. Change cannot be built on the spiritually rotten foundations of Amerikan liberal democracy. It is only by uprooting these foundations - that of racial capitalism, neo-colonialism, and imperialism - through socialist revolution, that Black liberation, and hence liberation of all, can be achieved.
This is a CALL TO ACTION."
Credits:
Recorded 2020-2024 by Kevin King, Shravan Raghuram, and Allen Xu
Kevin King: composer, tenor saxophone, flute, keyboard, oboe (1,5), synthesizer (3), percussion (1,4)
Shravan Raghuram: composer (2), drums, bass guitar, electric guitar (1,4), percussion (1,4), synthesizer (2)
Allen Xu: production, mixing, mastering, vocals, sampling
Sophia Byrd: vocals (5), lyrics (5)
Jordyn Birden: vocals (1)
Will Burke: grunt (1)
cover art by Arthur Wright III