Here in Neeshland we don’t like the constriction of genres. We like music that breaks free from the ordinary. Kayo Dot is a perfect example of such music. I’ve seen their music be categorized as avant-garde, post-rock, post-metal, postmodern classical, progressive rock, experimental doom metal, post-hardcore, free jazz… Their sound is truly uncategorizable. There’s usage of many different instruments and their songs can extend to 18 minutes in length.
Coyote (April 20, 2010) Hydra Head Records
dedicated to Yuko Sueta
In just a few days Kayo Dot will be releasing their fourth studio record, Coyote. You can preorder directly from Toby Driver and receive an additional CD-R of a live 2009 performance in handmade packaging for $15 (in the US, which includes shipping… or $18 overseas). The material of the album began taking shape two years ago, in April 2008, as a collaborative long-form composition piece by frontman Toby Driver and NYC-based writer/filmmaker/video artist, Yuko Sueta. It was intended to be a film projected along with music; Yuko as the author and Toby as the composer. September 2008 Toby and Yuko shared a first draft at The Stone with the music performed by Toby (bass guitar, vocals), Kayo Dot’s Daniel Means (alto sax), Tim Byrnes (trumpet), Kayo Dot’s Terran Olson (piano), Kayo Dot’s David Bodie (percussion). Sadly, not too long after, Yuko became incapacitated from Breast Cancer. Toby re-adapted the music and Kayo Dot (with Tim) performed it on their May 2009 tour with Secret Chiefs 3. June-July 2009 the band shacked up with Producer Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Six Organs of Admittance) in Seattle and recorded Coyote. Yuko passed while the record was in post-production. Cited musical influences include: early Cure, Faith and the Muse, Bauhaus, Herbie Hancock’s Sextant, and Scott Walker’s The Drift. According to Solid PR,
The lyrics and story were constructed with deliberate melodrama to pay homage as well to the intended gothic vibe, expressing the protagonist’s loneliness and longing to be in a better place, and her journey through her own personal looking-glass through a hallucinatory world of fear and wonder.
Original member (and pre-cursor band, maudlin of the Well, member) Terran Olson returned after several years during the odyssey to Coyote. This also marks the first Kayo Dot album drummer, David Bodie, appears on. The Kayo Dot website describes Bodie’s performance on the record as, “more rhythm-oriented than heard in previous Kayo Dot music.” Previously David Bodie has drummed in Bernier/Schirmer/Bodie, Time of Orchids, MATH, Counterfeit Disaster and Divest.
Fun factoid: Mia Matsumiya, Kayo Dot’s beautiful Japanese violinist, was the original model for the female face in Coheed and Cambria’s Second Stage Turbine Blade liner notes.
Currently Kayo Dot is up for Deli Magazine’s NYC Artist of the Month. Vote for them here (in the upper right corner).
to book Kayo Dot on their Coyote Tour contact:
US booking - Merrick Jarmulowicz / The Kenmore Agency (merrick@thekenmoreagency.com)
mainland European booking - Vincent Royers / Odyssey Booking (vincent@odysseybooking.com)
Currently in need of a UK Booking agent. Contact the band if you are interested!
Kayo Dot’s first magazine cover-
Featuring:
Kayo Dot: Toby Driver talks Coyote and goth fusion!
Red Sparowes: Post-rock supergroup return with their first album in four years, The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer!
Ufomammut: Italian progressive psych-doom trio celebrate ten years with their latest masterpiece, Eve!
Black Breath: Southern Lord’s latest signing unleash their debut album!
Jucifer: Sludge metal husband/wife duo go DIY!
Eluvium: Ambient/shoegaze/minimalist explorer Matthew Cooper goes pop!
Oxbow: Eugene Robinson remembers the making of Fuckfest in the first of our Classic Albums series!
Plus! Wold, Årabrot, Public Guilt, Mouse On The Keys, Caspian, Errors, live action: Sir Richard Bishop, The Ex & Brass Unbound, White Hills + Pontiak, over 100 album reviews and much, much more!
Only in Rock-A-Rolla issue 25, out now!
Buy issue 25 now: http://www.rock-a-rolla.com/backissues.htm
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