Kites (musician)

Kites is the name taken by Christopher Forgues for his musical projects. Forgues, born in 1980 in Massachusetts, attended the Art Institute of Boston and Massachusetts College of Art in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Following graduation from Mass Art, Forgues moved to Providence and joined the burgeoning art and music scene centered around Fort Thunder, a warehouse art and music venue. Active in Providence at the time were Load Records, Brian Chippendale, Matt Brinkman, and many others.

Kites has released more than ten self-produced tapes, three full-lengths, and one split record (with Prurient) on Load Records, as well as two mini-CDs, one on the Mountain Collective and the other on Chrondritic Sound. Kites has toured the United States several times. He has also appeared in Europe and Canada.

Kites employs homemade electronics, effects pedals, and altered acoustic instruments to make music most often classified as noise. However, Forgues' music incorporates elements of folk extensively and unlike much noise, most of what Kites creates is not improvised. Comparisons have been made to Amps for Christ and Hair Police.

Forgues goes by C.F. in the art world. He has been self-publishing his comic Low Tide since the late 1990s. His first graphic novel, Powr Mastrs, was recently published by Picturebox, Inc.

Selected discography

• Royal Paint with the Metallic Gardner from the United States Helped into an Open Field by Women and Children (2004), Load Records
• Peace Trials (2005), Load Records
• Superior Moon (2006), Mountain Collective
• Sky Hammer (2006), Chondritic Sound
• Hallucination Guillotine / Final Worship (2007), Load Records

External links

• Kites live on BSR 88.1 WELH Providence, Monday May 10, 2004