Kayo Dot
| Kayo Dot | |
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| General information | |
| origin | New York City , United States |
| Genre (s) | Avant-garde , progressive rock , metal |
| founding | 2003 |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals , electric bass , electric guitar , piano , keyboard , organ , double bass , violoncello , clarinet , tuba , percussion
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Toby Driver |
Electric guitar, keyboard |
Ron Varod |
| Leo Didkovsky | |
Drums |
Phillip Price |
Electric guitar (live) |
Matthew Serra |
| former members | |
Singing, keyboard, cello, percussion |
Jason Byron |
Electric guitar, percussion, vocals |
Greg Massi |
Drums, percussion, vocals |
Sam Gutterman |
Electric bass, vocals |
Nicholas "Nick" Kyte |
Electric bass, vocals |
Ryan McGuire |
| Forbes Graham | |
Electric guitar, vocals |
John Carchia |
Electric guitar, keyboard |
D. Thomas "DJ" Murray |
Drums, percussion |
Tom Malone |
Drums, percussion, gong
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David Bodie |
| Tim Byrnes | |
Electric guitar, keyboard, vocals |
Alex Nagle |
| Terran Olson | |
Alto saxophone , tenor saxophone , clarinet, keyboard, percussion |
Daniel Means |
Drums |
Keith Abrams |
| Mia Matsumiya | |
Keyboard |
Patrick Wolff |
Kayo Dot is an American metal , avant-garde, and progressive rock band from Brooklyn , New York . In 2003 she succeeded the group maudlin of the Well . In addition to the group maudlin of the Well, the project Tartar Lamb can also be considered a satellite band Kayo Dots.
history
The band was founded in March 2003 around the singer and multi-instrumentalist original member Toby Driver, after his predecessor project maudlin of the Well broke up in late 2002. In October of the same year, the debut album Choirs of the Eye , which had been recorded as an eleven - piece metal orchestra , was released on John Zorn 's Tzadik label . Guest musicians include Adam Scott on trumpet, Benjie Messer on trombone, Sam Minnich on horn and Sky Cooper on guitar. Also live, the band oriented itself more towards the appearance of orchestras and played more in traditional venues. After recording the album Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue , the band went on a seven-week US tour. The album was released in January 2006. On the album, the group only consists of seven members. In July of that year, Holy Roar Records released a split release with Bloody Panda . Kayo Dot contributed the song Don't Touch Dead Animals . In December a record deal was signed with Hydra Head Records . About this was published in March 2008 under the name Blue Lambency Downward . Guest musicians include Charlie Zeleny on drums, Eric "Skerik" Walton Skerik on tenor and baritone saxophone and vibraphone , Hans Teuber on clarinet (soprano and bass) and alto saxophone, Dave Abramson as percussionist and guest singer Brad "BRAD" Mowen BRAD Listen. Sound effects were contributed by Randall Dunn. After a US tour with Secret Chiefs 3 , the band went to Seattle to record the next album in early July 2009. This was published the following year under the name Coyote , which Gamma Knife joined in 2012 . The double album Hubardo , which was released in 2013 and recorded under the direction of Randall Dunn , was funded by crowdfunding . The next album was released in 2014 under the name Coffins on Io . In the same year, the group played among other things on the South by Southwest , before they could be seen at the Roadburn Festival the following year . In 2016 the album Plastic House on Base of Sky followed on the label The Flenser . In autumn 2019 the album Blasphemy was published, which had been produced again by Randall Dunn.
style
According to David Jeffries from Allmusic, the band fuses elements from progressive and black metal as well as atmospheric metal with abstract electroacoustic and modern chamber music compositions. Elements from Gothic Rock are also used, which makes it difficult to assign the group to a genre other than experimental rock . Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue give up "more subdued" than its predecessor, while Blue Lambency Downward on chamber jazz Operating the. Coyote was influenced by groups like The Cure , Bauhaus and Faith and the Muse . Gamma Knife tends towards Extreme Metal . Also Hubardo as a stronger trend against metal, which is influences from black metal, post-rock , fusion could hear and chamber music. With Plastic House on Base of Sky they have specialized very much in electronic music . Coffins on Io work in influences from the Dark Wave . Overall, maudlin of the Well was more Metal-oriented, while Kayo Dot had more of a modern-classic claim. Plastic House on Base of Sky is versatile and mainly electronically oriented. Blasphemy process influences from Blackgaze , melodic post-punk and AvantProg .
Joel G, Australia from progarchives.com assigned the group to avant-garde rock and experimental metal . Choirs of the Eye contains atmospheric metal with avant-garde overtones, with the group having a moving and experimental approach. The album continued the concept of combining metal and atmospheric compositions for which maudlin of the Well was known. Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue is more avant-garde and less metallic. The singing fades into the background and the focus shifts to atmospheric textures and an avant-garde game. Blue Lambency Downward offers shorter songs, with the album ending with two ten-minute pieces. The album is least connected to metal and consists mainly of drum textures combined with the playing of stringed instruments and clarinets.
Thomas Kerpen from Ox-Fanzine wrote in his review for Blue Lambency Downward that usage is a "more meditative how hard-bulky modern chamber music" and "a kind of Ambient - Drone - Jazz , which is stylistically too unpredictable than that for a really Find a suitable drawer "can be heard. Classic instrumentation meets "noise" in the style of Neurosis , Progressive Rock, which is reminiscent of King Crimson and " Fantômas- Frickel". In addition to disharmonious moments, there are also catchy melodies. He was particularly fascinated by the "stylistic complexity of the constantly changing compositions". The audibility of the songs is preserved by repeatedly "going to almost conventional songwriting and traditional pop and rock influences". Tobias Schultz from metal1.info summarized Coffins on Io under the term Avantgarde Metal . The music is made up of elements of progressive and post rock as well as chamber music. Occasionally borrowed from the Death Metal and are doom metal - riffs heard. Each album is "a nested complex of atmospheric landscapes, gentle prog rock songs and crazy experiments, for which several passages are necessary to fully develop". When he listened to Coffins on Io he felt strongly reminiscent of space rock , but at the beginning of the album the music could be assigned to classic progressive rock in the style of Rush and Pink Floyd . Towards the end of the album you turn to the ambient. Driver's singing is phenomenal and mystical. Melanie Aschenbrenner from Metal Hammer described blasphemy as progressive, although the band breaks every genre boundary. The songs are changeable in dynamics and rhythm. The album would be about greed and its aftermath, with the lyrics by Jason Byron and reading like " esoteric - allegorical science fiction ". In the songs she made influences of extreme metal , in the form of growls , and pop music audible. There is also an occasional use of a vocoder . Meredith Schmiedeskamp also reviewed the album: Like its predecessors, the album was experimental and "is once again based on a story by former band member Jason Byron". The songwriting and the mix put a special emphasis on dominant vocals and synthesizers, which is reminiscent of "the floating moments with Porcupine Tree as well as eighties wave sounds". Since the rhythm is straightforward and the songs are relatively short, the progressiveness is evident in the unusual arrangements and the high, intrusive vocal Drivers, which meanders between the keyboard and drums .
Discography
- 2003: Choirs of the Eye (Album, Tzadik )
- 2006: Kayo Dot / Bloody Panda (split with Bloody Panda , Holy Roar Records )
- 2006: Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue (Album, Robotic Empire )
- 2008: Blue Lambency Downward (album, Hydra Head Records )
- 2009: Champions of Sound 2008 (split with Pelican , Stove Bredsky and Zozobra , Hydra Head Records)
- 2010: Coyote (Album, Hydra Head Records)
- 2010: Live in Bonn (live album, self-published)
- 2010: Stained Glass (EP, Hydra Head Records)
- 2012: Gamma Knife (album, self-published)
- 2013: Hubardo (album, Ice Level Music )
- 2014: Kraków (Split with Tartar Lamb II, Instant Classic )
- 2014: Coyote - Live on WMBR, August 31, 2010 (Live album, self-published)
- 2014: Coffins on Io (Album, The Flenser )
- 2016: Plastic House on Base of Sky (Album, The Flenser)
- 2019: Blasphemy (Album, Prophecy Productions )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bio / Description. kayodot.net, archived from the original on August 7, 2011 ; accessed on March 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Info. Facebook , accessed March 1, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e Biography. musicmight.com, archived from the original on March 3, 2016 ; accessed on March 1, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f David Jeffries: Kayo Dot. Allmusic , accessed March 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Andrew Sacher: Invisible Oranges 2014 SXSW show pics (Black Tusk, Mutoid Man, Kayo Dot, Yautja, Wild Throne, Venomous Maximus). brooklynvegan.com, accessed March 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Roadburn 2015: Sólstafir, SubRosa, Kayo Dot, Lord Mantis, KENmode, Botanist and Lazer / Wulf Added. theobelisk.net, accessed March 1, 2020 .
- ^ Joel G, Australia: Kayo Dot biography. progarchives.com, accessed March 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Thomas Kerpen: KAYO DOT . Blue Lambency Downward. In: Ox-Fanzine . 79 (August / September, 2008) - ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed on March 6, 2020]).
- ↑ Tobias Schultz: CD Review: Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io. metal1.info, accessed March 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Melanie Aschenbrenner: Kayo Dot . Blasphemy. In: Metal Hammer . September 2019, p. 94 .
- ↑ Meredith Schmiedeskamp: Kayo Dot . Blashemy. In: Rock Hard . No. 388 , September 2019, p. 96 .