jason (FMA Admin)

When Karl Blau started K.L.A.P.S., the "lunacy" part of Kelp Lunacy Advanced Plagiarism Society envisioned a new album for every cycle of the moon. If that sounds crazy, well... he's already made thirty of 'em! Plus many great releases for K Records (a track from 2009's Zebra is below, and the Max 12" EP is the latest).

But more recently Karl Blau has been focused on other people's projects (touring as a member of EARTH and Lake), engineering at Dub Narcotic Studio, and working as a music teacher and hydrophone maker to support his family.

Still, Karl Blau has plenty enough musical ideas to fuel twelve new "kelps;" he just hasn't had the time or the money to focus on them. So he started a Kickstarter -- one of the projects featured on FMA's Curated Page which launched last week -- and miraculously it has succeeded with an extra 10k to boot! Karl Blau did an interview with Michael McGregor about the project, and a Round The World Song Relay leading up to the deadline, which you can enjoy here.

We love Karl Blau's "my words are your words" approach, including a website of lyrics that are freely available to the public to reinterprate (through "Advanced Plagiarism?") and use however we wish. As part of this Kickstarter, Karl Blau will be accepting song-poem style lyric submissions from backers, and setting them to music. Karl Blau also shares a selection of songs under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licenses here on the FMA. He's done everything from a reggae-style Nutcracker album (Coconutcracker) to instrumental Stereoearrings, hip-hop inspired D+ (Dance Positive), to pop that comes naturally inspired by constantly shifting and engaging surroundings. JoeMc picked out a few of his favorites for an FMA feature in 2010 (here), and we look forward to the fruits of his new creative projects!