skewed pop/rock and fractured folk featuring members of Thee More Shallows

Ral Partha Vogelbacher is the band moniker of impishly creative San Franciscan Chadwick Bidwell. On Kite vs Obelisk, he casts his imaginative and musical nets wide, and drags in a heaving shoal of weird yet strangely endearing characters to populate a richly diverse musical landscape. Ranging from stark acoustic to fuzzed out electric guitar and squalling feedback via waltz, frantic folk, syncopated rock and drunken drum machine, and containing lyrical references to the Stones, Palace, the Smiths and Pavement, Kite vs Obelisk almost defies classification.

To flesh out the songs that began their lives as acoustic demos, Bidwell enlisted members of other San Francisco bands, including Dee Kesler and Tadas Kisielius of Thee More Shallows, Wendy Allen from The Court and Spark and Chris Palmatier and Brian Frazer of Brian_and_Chris. Most of the tracks were recorded by Scott Solter (Tarentel, Court and Spark).