Karla Schickele, bass player, singer and sometime songwriter of Ida and founder of indie-faves Beekeeper has recorded a side project she's named k. Don’t call it a solo project. Though Karla wrote and arranged all but one of New Problems’ dreamy ballads and Velvet Underground-ish slow hurricanes, (there's a Mamas & Papas cover on here) there were generous and talented friends around adding to the musical spark. Tara Jane O'Neil (Retsin, Rodan) recorded many of the album’s tracks, also playing drums on a few songs as well, while Cynthia Nelson (Retsin, Ruby Falls) played some lead guitar. Rose Thomson (Babe the Blue Ox) and Ida bandmates Dan Littleton, Liz Mitchell and Ida Pearle’s assignments ranged from noise and sounds to more structured duties on piano, vocals, violin and guitar.


The lyrical side of New Problems wholly belongs to Karla. Songs like "Reminder" and "Bad Day at Black Rock" (also listed as "Regular Girl" on the recently released k./Low split, Those Girls) both muse on a breaking relationship and trust's place in it. When Karla sings, "Baby, I don't know the score but I know you're a player," you get some insight into the album's title.
Before joining Ida in 1996 (as a temporary bass player who stuck around to become one of the band's songwriters), Karla formed the critically acclaimed Beekeeper with her brother Matthew. Beekeeper released the full-length Ostrich (Southern Records) and the EP Anywhere Will Do (Muss My Hair Records). Beekeeper embodied the spirit of Karla’s songs with its harnessed beauty of dissonance and strange meters that delicately combined pop and art. This same spirit dwells in the twelve songs found on New Problems.

Karla Schickele - vocals, bass, piano, guitar, oboe, glockenspiel
Tara Jane O'Neil - drums, xylophone
Elizabeth Mitchell - piano, vocals
Daniel Littleton - sounds, guitar, vocals
Michael Littleton - bass
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Solowy debiut Karli Schickele (ida, Beekeper). Gościnnie pojawiają się m.in. znane z Ida: Tara Jane O'Neil i Cynthia Nelson.
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Karla Schickele, bass player, singer and sometime songwriter of Ida and founder of indie-faves Beekeeper has recorded a side project she's named k. Don’t call it a solo project. Though Karla wrote and arranged all but one of New Problems’ dreamy ballads and Velvet Underground-ish slow hurricanes, (there's a Mamas & Papas cover on here) there were generous and talented friends around adding to the musical spark. Tara Jane O'Neil (Retsin, Rodan) recorded many of the album’s tracks, also playing drums on a few songs as well, while Cynthia Nelson (Retsin, Ruby Falls) played some lead guitar. Rose Thomson (Babe the Blue Ox) and Ida bandmates Dan Littleton, Liz Mitchell and Ida Pearle’s assignments ranged from noise and sounds to more structured duties on piano, vocals, violin and guitar.


The lyrical side of New Problems wholly belongs to Karla. Songs like "Reminder" and "Bad Day at Black Rock" (also listed as "Regular Girl" on the recently released k./Low split, Those Girls) both muse on a breaking relationship and trust's place in it. When Karla sings, "Baby, I don't know the score but I know you're a player," you get some insight into the album's title.
Before joining Ida in 1996 (as a temporary bass player who stuck around to become one of the band's songwriters), Karla formed the critically acclaimed Beekeeper with her brother Matthew. Beekeeper released the full-length Ostrich (Southern Records) and the EP Anywhere Will Do (Muss My Hair Records). Beekeeper embodied the spirit of Karla’s songs with its harnessed beauty of dissonance and strange meters that delicately combined pop and art. This same spirit dwells in the twelve songs found on New Problems.
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