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KW | JR is the bicoastal production duo of NYC’s Kolby Wade and LA’s Josh Ricchio. Composing music together for over a decade, the innovative exchange of ideas and sound between them is intuitive and uniquely unified. Their intricate compositions transport the listener with mechanical arpeggios, emotive melody and tactile analog warmth. A foundation of retrowave sounds and ‘80s vintage machinery gives each track an eerie cinematic layer. Their collective force pulsates a futuristic …
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KW | JR is the bicoastal production duo of NYC’s Kolby Wade and LA’s Josh Ricchio. Composing music together for over a decade, the innovative exchange of ideas and sound between them is intuitive and uniquely unified. Their intricate compositions transport the listener with mechanical arpeggios, emotive melody and tactile analog warmth. A foundation of retrowave sounds and ‘80s vintage machinery gives each track an eerie cinematic layer. Their collective force pulsates a futuristic …
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Sometimes the best discoveries happen by mistake.

Such was the case with indie-pop duo, The Kat & Josh. Brought together by a misunderstanding, singer/songwriter, Kat Quinn, and songwriter/producer, Josh Ricchio, found themselves in a bicoastal co-write, and quickly realized they had stumbled upon something great.

Kat, known for her “perceptive pen” (PopMatters), was fresh off her critically-acclaimed EP, Rust to Gold, and was in search of New York City collaborations for her next project. …
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2,786 miles and 11 states separate Josh Ricchio (Freak Owls) and Kolby Wade (Elladora, Ladycop), the two alchemists behind production/composition duo, Will Phåråoh, but the distance only makes their writing process more interesting. The pair have written and toured in multiple projects together over the past decade, and released over a dozen records between them, but Ricchio's recent relocation to sunny L.A. necessitated the long-distance relationship the two now find themselves in. Projects …
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Josh Ricchio’s Freak Owls was created in 2010 from an amalgamation of ideas, restlessness, and the desire to lock himself in a room and write after spending the previous 12 years playing and touring in a wide variety of collaborative indie rock bands.

The first two releases ("Taxidermy" and "Orchestrates") pull influences from The Beach Boys, MGMT, Death Cab For Cutie and Yeasayer while textured, over-layering vocal choruses, sparkling acoustics, and Gnarls Barkley-like danceable beats urge …
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2,786 miles and 11 states separate Josh Ricchio (Freak Owls) and Kolby Wade (Elladora, Ladycop), the two alchemists behind production/composition duo, Will Phåråoh, but the distance only makes their writing process more interesting. The pair have written and toured in multiple projects together over the past decade, and released over a dozen records between them, but Ricchio's recent relocation to sunny L.A. necessitated the long-distance relationship the two now find themselves in. Projects …
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2,786 miles and 11 states separate Josh Ricchio (Freak Owls) and Kolby Wade (Elladora, Ladycop), the two alchemists behind production/composition duo, Will Phåråoh, but the distance only makes their writing process more interesting. The pair have written and toured in multiple projects together over the past decade, and released over a dozen records between them, but Ricchio's recent relocation to sunny L.A. necessitated the long-distance relationship the two now find themselves in. Projects …
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