The second in a series of EPs from Bristol's Copper Kites.

WATCH THE VIDEOS TOO. Each of the four songs on Red Questions has an accompanying punk-art video. Enjoy them at 'GnomeTube' the YouTube channel for 'Uncontrolled Borders' - home of Herb Garden family and friends.

Words and music, composed, performed and produced by Copper Kites. All four videos were filmed and produced by Copper Kites.

Red Questions is a gothic, mini-musical horror show:

1. ‘Bombastic Monoliths’ was first put together after we played with our own sample in the recording studio – an idea around a ‘bom-bom’ vocal motif and electro-folk noodle. Featuring Tibetan finger cymbals.

2. ‘Dead Dreams’ is a later composition. Actually started in winter 2012/13 and halted mid-flow as changes in our lives took sudden turns. We lost and gained people in our lives. Music stopped for a bit. Bloody and earthy, Dead Dreams simultaneously rocks the cradle then dances gleefully on some graves. Nice!

3. ‘Papacentric Death Coat’ is a strange mix of disco-punk and gothic-horror funk. It started its life around the time of 'Dead Dreams', from a riff welded together by Rat and Carl in the Kites’ new mastering Shed.

4. ‘Wounded Dog’. Definitely the earliest composition on Red Questions, one which was formed quite swiftly (for us) but took a while for us to be happy with it.

We conceived these songs in a previous life and the Red Questions idea in 2014. The music is the beating metal wings of our post-punk ‘bird of prey’ incarnation. From our vantage points above the skyline we dive down to collect what’s ours for the taking. But we give and take musically and culturally. We do this in blank masks to avoid false emotion and to remove ambiguity from the creative process. In mythology the goddess Isis took the form of a kite to resurrect the dead. We wear the masks of our mythical bird-selves to breathe life into our music. A higher power told us to act in this way.