New Album By Khu.éex’: Featuring Preston Singletary
7th October 2026
"Khu-Tron: Cloned Hardware" by Khu.éex’
Khu.éex’, which features co-founder Preston Singletary on bass, is an Indigenous band full of creative members, including storytellers, activists and artists, that bring this collective energy to the stage as one powerful unit.
Their upcoming album “Khu-Tron: Cloned Hardware” will be released Friday October 9th, digitally on Bandcamp and on CD on the Khu.éex’ website.
The music on "Khu-Tron: Cloned Hardware" features a stripped-down band lineup, primarily as an instrumental keyboards/bass/drums/guitar quartet.
Funk is at the core of the music on this set with journeys into fusion, go-go, jungle, R&B, and hard rock. As Preston Singletary (co-founder/bassist) notes, this CD is the last of the material that was created with Bernie Worrell, The Wizard of WOO!
As Singletary notes, "We were accumulating so much material from the first 2 sessions we’d recorded with him we decided to go a different route. We thought that we should work on a few concise things rather than hit record and start jamming.
This material was recorded between the albums "They Forgot They Survived" and "Héen" but got lost in the shuffle. We continued to develop music in the studio with Bernie that we developed into the album "WOOch", which became one of the most robust productions we’ve released.
After several years we have opened these recordings and wanted to share them on this CD. It was all very bitter-sweet to mix this material and package it. We continue to try and channel former band members Bernie Worrell and Clarissa Rizal, both of whom passed away in 2016. Moving forward we like to measure ourselves against what we think they would like to hear, and if they would be proud of what we’ve come up with. "
Featured Artists:
Preston Singletary - Bass - (Tlingit) A noted glass artist based in Seattle, WA. His works have become synonymous with the relationship between European glass blowing traditions and Northwest Native art.
Bernie Worrell - Keyboards - (Cherokee) Worrell has played with countless musicians over the years, but most notably as the founding member of the legendary Parliament-Funkadelic, in addition to releasing several solo records.
Captain Raab - Guitar - (Blackfoot) Raab has played in the band Red Earth, an Albuquerque based Native Funk/Rock band.
Stanton Moore - Drums, percussion - An accomplished drummer based out of New Orleans and has played with a wide variety of musicians. Moore is also noted as the founding member of Galactic.
Skerik – Track #1 - Saxophone - An avant-garde sax player who plays in notable projects including Critters Buggin, Garage a Trois and NW supergroup Mad Season.
Air Jazz – Track #2 – Vocals - Arias Hoyle, who also goes by the name Airjazz, is a Tlingit language speaker, and rhymes in Tlingit and English. His Tlingit name is, “Yaw di néh”.
Produced by Randall Dunn, a highly respected producer who has worked with legendary jazz musicians such as John Zorn and Eyvind Kang.
