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Choirs of the Eye is the debut studio album by Kayo Dot, released on Tzadik Records in 2003. It was released shortly after the breakup of maudlin of the Well, with the band consisting of several members from the former band as well as guest performers who are friends of band members. The album is titled after a lyric from the maudlin of the Well song 'Blight of River-Systems', on My Fruit Psychobells...A Seed Combustible.^[2]SputnikMusic voted it as one of the best metal albums of the 2000s. The group performed the entire album in 2010 to two sold out nights in Brooklyn, New York.^[3]

Gamma Knife is Brooklyn-based experimental rock/metal behemoth Kayo Dot's fifth album, released in early 2012 after being recorded in 2011. The album is short, clocking in at just over a half hour, and consists of mostly live recordings of the band.

Style[edit]

Choirs of the Eye blends aspects of experimental metal, post-rock, art rock, jazz, and modern composition, with long, predominantly instrumental, through-composed songs. Additionally, the album continues maudlin of the Well's unorthodox fusion of common metal and rock instrumentation with woodwinds, brass, and strings, with the intention of helping the electric guitar, drum kit, and electric bass to become part of the lexicon of modern classical music.^[2] These features helped entice John Zorn to sign the band and distribute the album on his Tzadik label as the first full band in its 'Composer Series'.^[2][4]

Lyrics[edit]

The lyrics were written by Jason Byron, longtime collaborator of band leader and main composer Toby Driver, who also wrote for maudlin of the Well. Byron would listen to the instrumental compositions and match lyrics accordingly, which were usually written previously and independently. In some cases, entire stanzas were unable to fit in the song structures, which led to some instances of alternative sound creation and recording methods; the song 'The Antique,' for example, features a sound recording of an antique Polaroid camera as it snaps a photo of an unused lyric stanza, thereby making the camera 'speak' the unused words.^[2] The lyrics are not published in the album's liner notes.

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Toby Driver. All lyrics written by Jason Byron.

Credits[edit]

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• Toby Driver - vocals, guitar, cello, double bass, bells, synthesizer, tuba
• Greg Massi - vocals, electric guitar
• Nicholas Kyte - vocals, bass guitar
• Sam Gutterman - vocals, drums, percussion
• Terran Olson - flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, grand piano, Hammond organ, Rhodes piano
• Sam Minnich - French horn
• Benjie Messer - trombone
• Todd Neece - recitation
• Mia Matsumiya - violin, viola
• Alex Nagle - electric guitar
• Adam Scott - trumpet

References[edit]

1. ^Sputnikmusic review
2. ^ ^abcdLamentations of the Flame Princess Interview with Kayo Dot
3. ^Noise Creep Interview with Kayo Dot
4. ^Tzadik Music page for Choirs of the Eye

Kayo Dot – Plastic House on Base of Sky (2016)
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The core of Kayo Dot might be that mood one that lies at the crossroads of darkness and mystery. In film, music that accompanies mystery is often nocturnal, playing on a primal relation in our brains between the unknown and the night. Its this intersection that is the essence of Kayo Dot. Kayo Dot has never made the same record twice. From chamber music to progressive black metal, from goth to jazz and avant ­garde classical, Kayo Dot is experimental and often unclassifiable. Plastic House on Base of Sky is Kayo Dot s 7th full ­length since the bands inception in 2003 On Kayo Dots newest full length, Plastic House on Base of Sky, the band continues to embrace the electronic allusions found on their previous effort Coffins on Io. Plastic House on Base of Sky incorporates a variety of synthesizers (many of them vintage analog) to create another work of ambition and magnitude that fuses the explosive musical imagination of a band like Magma with the forward­ thinking experimentalism of Conrad Schnitzler or Morton Subotnick. This latest effort, a 40 minute ­long, 5­ song album replaces the future­noir theme of Coffins on Io with an innovative, complex, and biomechanical work of art. Think seemingly impossible architecture, dead satellites, trashed space stations, wasted old lady heroin addicts hanging out by cheap motel pools, broken people, and a hopeless dead and polluted world transitioning into artifice and mechanism and reacting by being self­ destructive, either to the point of utter obliteration or a glorious transhuman condition. Toby Driver, the primary composer and bandleader of Kayo Dot, has been fiercely productive over the years, and while that usually refers to how many songs or albums an artist has made, with Driver the productivity is in the realm of ideas as much as music itself. In the course of a single Kayo Dot song, the amount of risks and liberties taken with form and convention usually outnumbers what other artists cover in a full album. For as much ground as they cover, its always in the service of a carefully curated mood and this is apparent on Plastic House on Base of Skys exploration of our mechanical post­human future­present.

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01. Amalia’s Theme
02. All the Pain in All the Wide World
03. Magnetism
04. Rings of Earth
05. Brittle Urchin

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