Bluesman Ash Grunwald tells Undercover that he and Spiderbait frontman Kram will join forces for rock side project Krash.
The amiable Ash Grunwald dropped into the Undercover studios recently and revealed that he and Byron Bay neighbour Kram have plans for a turbo-charged rock collaboration.
They have both teamed up on stage before but Grunwald says that they’ll get together to record as Krash.
Kram joined him at CherryRock and Grunwald says, “He jumped up with me at Bluesfest and that was really really cool.”
“Basically, [it will be] very loose, very creative,” he says, “We’ve had a few jams.”
He confirms it’ll be more rock n’ roll than his current blues stomp sound, laughing that there should be “lots of getting fucked up.”
Although, while Grunwald wants to tap Kram’s rock animal persona, he admits that Kram has “a lot of strings to his bow” and that the Spiderbait wildman suggested doing some folky things.
Grunwald grins, “I’m like ‘What? No! No! I was enjoying going on that rock tangent!’ So I’m trying to steer him back and he’s trying to steer away from rock a little bit. I want it to be arse-kicking. Some of the stuff that we’ve mucked around with is really powerful. I would be tempted to do ten tracks like that; maybe do a couple of quiet ones.”
“He’s an amazing singer too,” Grunwald insists, “Just makes things up on the spot.”
There’s no solid timeline for the project, Grunwald noting, “I think it’ll happen but he’s signed [to a label] and I’m not so I can do whatever I want whenever I want. He’s just gotta sort out his backend stuff.”
Grunwald also discussed labels, touring, teaming with hip-hop producers, the possibility of knocking out a straight blues album and more during our interview, which will be up on Undercover soon.
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