Texas-born composer and performance artist Konrad Kinard has released his most ambitious work to date, ‘War Is Family (Surviving the Cold War and the Unraveling of an Imagined America)’. Described by the multi-instrumentalist as a “radio drama without the drama or the radio,” the twenty-track album is a haunting exploration of childhood memories shaped by the atomic anxieties of Cold War-era Texas. Produced and mastered by Fredrik Kinbom in Berlin, with additional engineering from Boris Wilsdorf of Einstürzende Neubauten fame, the project weaves together spoken word, sound collages, and traditional instrumentation. From the ominous opening of “Born A Texan” to the reflective “A Texas Summer Night,” Kinard reconstructs the psychological terrain of a generation raised under the shadow of Sputnik and the eternal threat of annihilation. By blending field recordings and existential monologue, this sonic elegy serves as a deeply personal letter from the past to the present, solidifying Kinard’s reputation as a master of experimental narrative performance.