Substack of UK musician, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer John Bassett, who has released 18 albums under the pseudonyms of KingBathmat (prog rock), Arcade Messiah (metal), Sacred Ape (synthwave pop) and also under his own name.
For those with a good memory, I released 2 Synthwave/Retrowave albums back in 2017/2018 under the name of Sacred Ape, whilst on a recent trip to London a couple of weeks ago, and taking a break from the recent recordings, I started digging into these old releases and ended up remixing and remastering much of the first Sacred Ape album.
New 9 minute song “Simon Says” from forthcoming 5 track EP of the same name, will hopefully appeal to those who enjoyed the progressive long format songs of KingBathmat/Arcade Messiah
This Podcast is about merchandise and the music industry, it also coincides with now having a Vinyl and CD Digipak release available for recent release Son Of A Nun (Born Again). I was not planning on putting out a physical version of this release, but someone pointed me in the direction of
In this video I talk about the newly released and completely remade and rerecorded Son Of A Nun (born again) album, an album that I made 23 years earlier under the pseudonym of KingBathmat.