Wallpaper for Walls
Wallpaper is the enigmatic onstage existence of Oakland music addict
Eric Frederic. In another life, he fronts a prog-rock powerhouse (indie
stalwarts Facing New York), but in this one, he's a pop-pushing kingpin
as interested in art as artifice. The Wallpaper project began in early
2005 as tweaked satire, Frederic funneling his earliest influences
(P-Funk, New Jack, East Bay rap) into two EPs of diced, digital beats
and lyrics caricaturing the pop vernacular. But as the Hyphy hip-hop
movement crested in Frederic's backyard, something changed. "I saw that
classic Bay Area sound resurfacing," he says, "that same psychedelic,
drippy, care-free, funky approach that reigned from Sly Stone to Digital
Underground." He needed to pay tribute, and in a hail of house parties
and homemade discs, Wallpaper was reborn as Ricky Reed, Frederic's
disco-smashing doppelganger. This glitz 'n' grit champion of the groove
has since become a gilded name in the underground, wooing crowds with a
computerized croon, live reinventions of R&B classics, and tales of
excess in the Information Age. Live, Wallpaper is joined by Arjun Singh
on drums. They have blown spots alongside such notables as Subtle,
Darondo, LA Riots, Electric Soft Parade, and Nino Moschella.
Wallpaper for Walls
Wallpaper for Walls
Wallpaper for Walls
Wallpaper for Walls
Wallpaper for Walls
Wallpaper for Walls
Wallpaper for Walls
Wallpaper for Walls
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