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Hey, thanks for joining us, ladies and gentlemen, today I'm Gideon King, from Gideon King

and CityBlog. He's got a new single out and he has a new EP coming out, New York City

Guitar Player, great collaborative effort on this project. How you doing Gideon?

Good, so we had our technical issues try to get set up and we got it done and I'm in

Helsinki here in New York so we got an ocean away apart from us but it's all good.

So tell me much project, it's been going for a while, it's a great collaborative effort with

a lot of great New York City musicians, singers, and tell me how that came about.

Yeah, so the project is called Splinters, a fixed tune EP with one cover on it actually,

which we literally just released the other day. Well, I guess we've released three songs so far,

we've released Splinters, the title cut, a tune called Turn Off the Sky and just the other day

we released somewhere only we know, which is believe it or not a cover of the old keen song,

which is a great song. And so, you know, I suppose everybody says this when they release their

new music and they say, well, you know, this is the best we've ever done and this is the best

thing we've ever created. And I guess I'm going to be pretty unoriginal and say that I think

this is the best we've ever done and say like, you know, it's a reflection of a lot of different

musical sort of examples of DNA. It's a reflection of the eclectic DNA of the band, jazz musicians,

soul musicians, R&D musicians, rock musicians, fusion people like me. And so we couldn't be more excited.

It is, it has some pop, it's got some rock, it has some jazz. But I don't know what I would call

it sort of a fusion progressive pop out. To be honest, my favorite band of all time is Steely Dan.

So to the extent that I had to analogize it to something and be really self-serving while doing

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