Before musicians Jason Noble and Jeff Mueller were indie music superstars with their bands Rodan, June of 44, Rachel’s, and Shipping News, they were RAP superstars. In Kentucky, that is. Louisville Kentucky, to be exact. Where Muhammad Ali is from.
Together with their drum machine-owning, Rockit-by-Herbie Hancock-playing-on-a-Yamaha DX21, RUN DMC-fanatic friend Greg King (King G), the three formed the group King G & The J Krew while still in high school (beat-boxing and rapping together in the echo-rich stairwells), and performed live exactly seven times before their 22nd birthdays, to the delight of dozens.
After initially 4-tracking a 90-minute ‘EP’ titled SNUG (with hip hop compatriot Jonathan Hawpe, aka Secret Weapon), the trio embarked on a much more ambitious project after achieving some better gear; their magnum opus ‘Indestructible Songs Of The Humpback Whale’. Released on CD in the fall of 1992, they were joined in the effort by fellow Louisville scene luminaries Tim Furnish (Crain, Parlour), Drew Daniel (Matmos), Ben Daughtrey (Squirrel Bait, Love Jones), Heather Cantrell (Drinking Woman), and Tara Jane O’Neil (Rodan, Sonora Pine), and would have gotten nowhere fast without the help of musician/engineer Aaron Frisbee, who basically taught them how to record music properly, and who contributed guitar and violin to the record when the need arose. Which it did.
The band disbanded sometime in 1993, as Jeff and Jason coalesced their energies into the indie group Rodan.
‘Indestructible Songs Of The Humpback Whale’ sees it’s vinyl debut 33 1/3 years after it’s recording. Single LP on limited edition black vinyl in a deluxe gatefold jacket with a 16 page booklet.
