POTENCO - HISTORICAL SLANG album \ single ‘RED KITE

HISTORICAL SLANG by POTENCO album out now

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Advert Break | POTENCO announces New Album launch

curiously great album launch poster design . . . . . . hhmmm 

Potenco tells us: “I made an album, and now I must launch an album. 

I'll be doing a Q&A followed by a live performance of my debut album, Historical Slang, at the West Hampstead Arts Club on 27th September. 

This Album podcast and all round hero of the game William Hann will be hosting the talking bit, and then I'll be doing the music bit. 

Ticket link below, all proceeds to Medical Aid for Palestinians. 

Get involved - what else are you going to do on a Saturday night in September, eh?"

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Potenco – Sleepwalking (another single of the week reminder) BUMPED!

I may be biased but this song seemed especially catchy as in it has stayed with me (ear worm anyone?) it may be the subject but I LIKE IT!  . . . . . . remembrances of what it is to be a father to small people and hurling them into the air (safest place in the world - Daddy’s hands!) This is the second release from Potenco’s forthcoming album - so watch this space as we say! 

‘Sleepwalking’ - Potenco

this may or may not feature several of my favourite people in the world . . . . .

just sayin’ . . . . . 

BUMP! | Single(s) of The Week : Potenco ‘Carole King’ and ‘Sleepwalking'

Potenco - 'Carole King’

"A great piece of writing here and the reference to Carole King at once fascinates and intrigues but as a repeat motif is a gem more from the mysterious (or not so!?) Potenco who’s opening track from a forthcoming album (sic?) Red Kite fascinated me so much t’other day . . . "

“Sleepwalking"

this may or may not feature several of my favourite people in the world . . . . .

just sayin’

that makes three tracks now from the forthcoming album from 

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Potenco - Carole King | SINGLE OF THE WEEK

Potenco - 'Carole King’

A great piece of writing here and the reference to Carole King at once fascinates and intrigues but as a repeat motif is a gem more from the mysterious (or not so!?) Potenco who’s opening track from a forthcoming album (sic?) Red Kite fascinated me so much t’other day . . . 

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Single of The Week: Potenco - Red Kite (2025)

 BUMP : SINGLE OF THE WEEK - POTENCO : RED KITE (2025)

 

'Red Kite' by Potenco - streaming now on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/potenco 'Red Kite' is the debut single by Potenco. 

It was written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Potenco in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, UK.

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© 2025 Potenco. All rights reserved.

Written by Rob Power

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Red Kite is the debut single by Potenco. It was written, recorded, mixed and mastered in Kidlington, Oxfordshire. It is a song about raptors, and recovery, and family, and backwards guitars. It was written in 2015, but it took Potenco a decade to record and release it. The reasons for this are unclear, but likely include children, capitalist realism, ADHD, and a general sense of dread. It took a shoulder operation and surprise unemployment to get things moving. For fun, and because some people can only do things it’s they’re unnecessarily difficult, Red Kite was recorded and mixed on a 2007 MacBook held together with duct tape.

lyrics

RED KITE

There's a knife in your sail and a fork in your road

And the wind on your belly and sun on your backbone. 

In the distance you see it's all swaddled in green 

And the blue of the sea never flows where your kin go.

Soar so high, talking to yourself at night

You wish you did, but you don't know why. 

And if you won't fly, then I won't fly. 

You don't mind, then I won't mind. 

My red kite's gonna be alright

Ain't no one gonna save me.

There's a lift in your throat and a hole in your bones

As the hunger you wrote wheeled away in the whitest light. 

You were few on the rope but to hunt is to hope as the swallows and moles

Dance their waltzes in 3/4 time

Blood drips white, grinding on your teeth at night

To the sound of a foolish sigh. 

And if you won't fly, then I won't fly. 

You don't mind, then I won't mind. 

My red kite's gonna be alright

Ain't no one gonna save me.

credits

released July 1, 2025 

Written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Potenco