Open Rehearsals

Wow, our first installment of Open Rehearsals at the Kinky Notti Juke Joint turned out to be such betterwith! So good, that now we're making it a bi-monthly event. We thought "what better way for our fans & homies to get an inside look at our performances + see the evolution of our next music-project than to witness it all live at our rehearsals?"... Plus we love receiving any kind of instant feedback from people, so it's a win, win situation.

Last time at our Open Rehearsal we banged out a live photo shoot with our guy Ten Photos + performed... so now we have new photos for the upcoming Kinky Notti promotion (that we plan to unleash later on this week). Also Tshurhad Chivas got to play around with some of his new song-ideas for Havanah Maxie's fresh beat-collection. It was a super-tight sneak preview for all the newbies who came thru!

Dopest of all, is that there's recently been a string of nice show-offers collecting for Kinky Notti, such as our upcoming show at HOB Chicago. We're opening up for The Lyfe Jennings "I Still Believe Tour" Monday Sept. 27th... anyway, we can honestly say that so far, Open Rehearsals seems to be the perfect outlet for us to connect to for expressing that magical creative-connection shared between us with others... it's a beautiful thing!

Chicago--> check out our Facebook Fan Page or our Twitter Page for updates on the next Kinky Notti installment of Open Rehearsal at the Juke Joint... but for now, here's some behind-the-scene pics & vid-footagery.

::::PEACE TO THE BABIES:::

Succumb Album Art - Lil Known Facts

Dude, Havanah Maxie KILLED this album artwork... she's quite the designer beast! A lotta muffoccurs have been asking about the significance of the visuals, so we thought we'd give a lil insight/fun-facts about how it came to be...

1.) We all know how much Tshurhad Chivas LOVES his ties... the problem was that he wasn't happy with how the wind had twisted it all up on the original album photo. Not to worry! HavMax knew she could easily "photoshop" his tie into its proper position... lol, chuch!

2.) Our photoshoot took place at the homie Floyd The Fourth's backyard/courtyard. During the middle of the shoot, he pulls out this big dopeass boombox as a prop, just playing around... it ends up inspiring the whole concept behind our album theme/identity. Thanks Bud!

3.) The tie around HavMax's head was originally to be worn properly around her neck... but at the last-minute, she thought it would be dope to rock it bohemian-headband style. It just kinda worked... can u say new fashion trend?!

4.) The global figure in the background represents the Earth & the moon all in one... it's life & death while also representing the dual nature of man, yin & yang, conflict & balance, all that good stuff.

5.) The geometrical-circular pattern behind us is called the "Flower of Life". According to wikipedia and other sacred sources, it represents "a visual expression of the connections life weaves through all sentient beings." The intricate design possesses every-known shape or form within itself. So basically it represents everything universal... sorta like the sound of Kinky Notti.

6.) The boombox represents "audio ammunition" which we use to combat this world of turmoil. On it we've placed our one common wish: PEACE TO THE BABIES!

Kink Not #1

This is the first installment from a new series of Kinky-Notti pop culture, we call "Kink Nots"... We also post Kink Not's on our Facebook fan page. But that's enough shameless promotion for now and on with the Kink Not:

The hook & song-concept of "Nasty Nasty" originated from Tshurhad Chivas' Ol Dirty Bastard impersonations. During the production of "Nasty Nasty", the Logic Pro file was even named "Dirt Aint Dead" for months before it was changed to reflect the song's lyrics. The rest of the group realized that Tshurhad's ODB song was so crazy, it just might work! Kink Not??

Eye Shine, You Shine

f*ck grills, can I get my eyes on bling?

Tshurhad is a big birthday freak. He gets all crazy about it, runnin round telling muffoccurs, "My Born Day is in 20 more days... yeah I was born Thanksgiving morning..." Then he goes through his whole story bout how his father called his grandmother to announce the 8lb "turkey" he had for her.

sick flyer design, word to HavMax

So this year Chiv Rock's B-Day spot was downtown at the oh-so-futuristic Sky Lounge ((40th floor of the new Avenue Hotel)). We were right on the Mag Mile, 40 stories up, with a ridiculous view. Plus you know we had to lock down the "Kink Suite" for a lil after-party fun. Anyway, that night Tshurhad put together this outfit that was...well...one of those "nobody could, or would, pull-it-off except-for-him type joints". All white, with lite-up glasses and pearls gallore... you know muffoccurs were dying to try on those lite-up goggle-joints just for shits and giggles.

Dude, those glasses gave a whole new perspective on "moonshine" after a shot of yak... & they had eight different settings: concentric-circles, flash on-&-off, fast, medium, slow, random... those glasses ruled like none other!

The Sky Lounge is like a secret agent hang-out. It gives the feeling of being in an airport control-room tower. And Tshurhad celebrated his bday the right way: with "first class" friends & fam...

B.Foster & Chivas "In the zone"

"and I need my Heroine Chic belt buckles.."

ChivRock & sis, Peets-o-Bot

Chivas & Shala cookin up the master plan

The Urban Upscale, Mr. Craig Elliott

Smooches from Sherri Berri

Special thanks to Ansy a.k.a. DuPeyxl for all the shots from that nite!
Check out more pics from Lick the Sky on Flickr

*****PEACE TO THE BABIES*****

Bad Rock Stars

Once at Floyd's we were all playing Rock Band. Twas a horrid and dull-colored experience, for the sun did not shine upon our souls that day.

Trialz & Tribulationz

So we're in the lab right now. We've been working on this one track off and on for months now and we're finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel with it's level of completion. We all got real gigs ((Tshurhad= marketing/events dude * HaveMax= graphic designer * Chae= hair stylist)) so time spent on songs feel like dog years for us...it's a wild beast trying to sneak in weekend & after-work hours with families, financial needs & other grown-folk ish to worry about.

That Hot Kink Not Laboratory

That's why each song birthed from us feel like our babies. Each project pushes us further to create a better work of art- more concise and more polished. Our focus is to create a collection of pieces that somehow fit together- even tell a story, if you can make sense of the whole hodgepodge.

Being in a group like Kinky Notti ain't no punk. Art of course is highly preferential by nature. One has a way of guarding and offending one's personal tastes as sacred and highly valid. Therefore, the subtlest differences in flavors can send a group's project back to the drawing board in a moment's time.

Primping before the performance
New Years Eve 07 @ the Hyatt Regency

Just last weekend, Chae & HaveMax got into it real ugly...to the point of Have saying "get the fuck out of my house" and Chae saying "and I won't ever come back!" But days after that, everyone was back to chilling again like fam. That's the whole maddening side of being involved with such a dynamic trio. We're all extremely opinionated artists (not to mention the drama that comes when you add together two women with diva mentalities and random PMS-induced mood swings)...it's no wonder that trios rarely exist in the music biz with two chicks and one dude. Poor Tshurhad is always in the middle of the cat fights thinking "these bitches are crazy as hell!!"

**shots from the CRB Box Social ©2008 Joe M. Reyes**

We're all extremely passionate about the ideas, influences & talent we each bring to the table. When we disagree, one often feels obligated to bring one's case before the jury, thus testifying one's right for their idea to live on a track. As follows, the defense presents its argument until a final verdict is reached between all, otherwise all die of exhaustion during the process. It's like a war zone...we have to fight to the finish.

A trio equals instant democracy for any given situation, along with instinctual feelings of "this time it's me against the double-crossers". All experience being "the rejectee" where one either mediates a situation or is forced to reconcile ones differences with the others. However, the magic lives inside those auspicious moments when a concept can be shared equally amongst all. The result is nothing short of collaborative genius at its finest- a triumph over the human ego. The product is music. (( I, You, She, We = the next completed Kinky Notti single!!!))

So lets see...we got Nasty Nasty, Beneath the Deck, Respirator Thump, and Caught Up so far...with this new banger, that makes us one step closer to a complete Kinky Notti collection. WORD!

Kinky Notti NYE 2007

It's like magic when the group comes together

.....Peace to the Babies.....

Back From Blog Holiday

Peace to the babies. I won't dally and fiddle <--(WTF? dally and fiddle?...Black Sheep?! in the meantime?! Well, Heads get it). I know it's been a hot min but we're back in the mix to do the whole blog thing once more. It's Chiv and Have on a Saturday eve just fucking around on the old trusy Mac - G4 Cube...classic. We invited Chae through...she'll fall through in a min! But anyway, lets get this blog game up cause "We got a lotta private jokes to share" if you care to tune in. We figured that if we didn't post an update on the happs of Kink Nott, since our last posting in September, that you'd assume that we haven't been up to shit. So let's start where we left off...

Kinky Notti is Now Available on iTunes!! Have Max...Graphics... Tshurhad Chivas...photos. All in-house, that's how we do. Shouts out to the first official Kinky Notti model, Memeco ((so sexxxy sexxxy)). She's the silent film star in our cinematic debut...

Kinky Notti "Nasty Nasty" Now availble on iTunes!

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Virgin Blog

This is the first Kinky Notti blog ever posted...wow...guess I need to say something interesting now. Well, I'm Have Max of the extraordinary group, Kinky Notti. We're based out of The Go...Chi-Town...The City of Wind...whichever nickname you prefer.

Kinky Notti consists of my Self...the Self of my guy Tshurhad Chivas...and the Self of my girl Chae. It's a very dynamic trio...sometimes I think we all need to permanently rock capes and tights...and I believe we will go very far. That's actually the purpose of this blog spot...to document the success of Kinky Notti as the movement grows.

So right now, we're newbies in the game...with two singles under our belt..."Beneath the Deck", which was released January 1 of 2007, and "Nasty Nasty" which debuted on July 6th of '07. So far so good...we've had a nice amount of exposure via shows and appearances in Chicago-land...we even ventured to New Orleans for a show during Jazz Fest weekend. Of course myspace has been our best friend as a means for gaining exposure. And finally, "Nasty Nasty" is available for digital purchase via iTunes, and many other online music sources.

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So cop the music and stay tuned while we check in and keep you posted on the latest haps in the world of Kink Nott.

Peace to the Babies...