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Kayo Dot
Experimental / Metal / Psychedelic

Kayo Dot! (ex-Maudlin of the Well)



Brooklyn, New York
United States

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   Kayo Dot: General Info
Member Since6/9/2004
Band Websitewww.kayodot.net
Band MembersClick on our names for our Myspace profiles!

Toby Driver - acoustic, electric, 12-string, baritone, and bass guitars, soprano clarinet, voice, piano, organ, gamelan instruments, analog synth, laptop mellotron

Mia Matsumiya - violin, voice, mellotron, synth bass

David Bodie - drumset

Daniel Means - woodwinds, guitar

Patrick Wolff - woodwinds, keyboards

Terran Olson - keyboards, woodwinds


Blue Lambency Downward session musicians:

Charlie Zeleny (Behold the Arcopus) - drumset

Skerik - tenor and baritone sax, vibraphone

Hans Teuber - soprano and bass clarinets, alto sax, flute

Dave Abramson (Diminished Men) - gamelan and additional percussion

B.R.A.D. (ASVA, The Accused, Burning Witch, Master Musicians of Bukkake) - additional vocals

Randall Dunn - sound effects and synth design
InfluencesBroadcast, Today is the Day, Bjork, Gorguts. (people have compared us to King Crimson, Isis, Jeff Buckley, Opeth)
Sounds Like
Record LabelTzadik, Hydra Head, Robotic Empire, Holy Roar
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jun 28 2009 8:00P
The Greenhouse Seattle, Washington
Jun 30 2009 8:00P
Satyricon Portland, Oregon
Jul 4 2009 8:00P
Beat Kitchen Chicago, Illinois
Jul 6 2009 8:00P
The Haunt Ithaca, New York

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new maudlin of the Well is now released!!!!  (view more)

KD's Greg Massi just released his new full-band, full-length album!  (view more)

BLD Vinyl and extra special items now available for preorder!  (view more)

Sputnikmusic.com posted a feature on KD - go read! link within.  (view more)

MONTREAL - tonight’s show postponed  (view more)

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   About Kayo Dot

A casual survey of what’s been written about Blue Lambency Downward shows the usual things one would expect from people writing about curious albums. There are a number of stabs at trying to jam Kayo Dot’s style, which sprawls fractally off in a number of directions, into one genre or another, sometimes having to hyphenate new genres until it begins to resemble a German translation. There also is a constant struggle to find some connection between founder Toby Driver’s metal past and Kayo Dot’s current strategy, which contains, at best, remnants of metal.

The fact is, outlier bands like Kayo Dot that sit on the edges of a number of different strategies aren’t easy to grasp and therefore get mislabeled, and through that mislabeling generate the wrong kind of expectations, engendering frustration. There’s certainly a tradition of calling bands like this metal. However, placing them in that symbolic space has real repercussions on how one listens to their music, and with Blue Lambency Downward, any of the vestigial bits from their earlier albums that might be construed as metal are lost in the John Zorn-esque songs, written from the vantage point of modern composition and prog.

If anything, Blue stands in alignment with the music of groups such as Henry Cow or Univers Zero, or in general, any of the Rock In Opposition bands, and it makes more sense to connect them like this, in terms of strategy, rather than trying to have to place them into this bad-fitting genre or that one. There’s a book by Henri Focillon called The Life of Forms in Art that goes into this idea in much greater depth, but the gist is that historical circumstances may account for certain constraints on the forms in art, but the only way to account for the forms themselves is to look at their internal lives. This means redrawing the cognitive map for grouping musicians or forming them into genres, and in Kayo Dot’s case, that means separating the way they make music from their particular circumstances: what bands certain members used to be in or who they’re friends with or any of the other little ways we all artificially create scenes or genres.

By Andrew Beckerman, Dusted Magazine Review

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/music/68437/monster-mash-up

TIME OUT NEW YORK calls Blue Lambency Downward "Easily the eeriest disc of the year" in their Halloween playlist, alongside Bauhaus, Current 93, Portishead, The Birthday Party, Fantômas, Sunn0))).. wow, great company! - article linked above!

Touring:

On tour:

June 2009: USA


Looking for:

Sept - Oct. 2009 - UK and Europe!

We are currently in need of a UK Booking agent. Please contact us if you are interested!

for all US booking please contact MERRICK JARMULOWICZ/THE KENMORE AGENCY:
merrick@thekenmoreagency.com
for all mainland European booking please contact VINCENT ROYERS:
vincent@conspiracyrecords.com

For Press/Publicity:

Solid PR - chris@solidpr.com

Discography:

2008 Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward (Hydra Head)

2007 Tartar Lamb - Sixty Metonymies (self-released)

2006 Kayo Dot - Don't Touch Dead Animals (single) (Holy Roar)

2006 Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue (Robotic Empire)

2005 Toby Driver - In the L..L..Library Loft (Tzadik)

2003 Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye (Tzadik)

2001 maudlin of the Well - Bath (Dark Symphonies)

2001 maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map (Dark Symphonies)

1999 maudlin of the Well - My Fruit Psychobells..A Seed Combustible (Dark Symphonies)

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Kayo Dot's Friends Comments
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Repo Man





Jul 1 2009 1:09 AM

i know!!!

i missed it because i had no ride damn!
雪ちゃん





Jul 1 2009 2:30 AM

You guys did a great show at the Greenhouse in Seattle. I'm pretty new to your music, but my friend has been a fan for a while and introduced me to it. I look forward to seeing you guys play again around here if you ever do. :D
Silent Seraph - Hello Elektro on iTunes now!! :D





Jul 3 2009 11:00 PM

good stuff guys, good stuff
The Alchemist





Jul 4 2009 2:39 PM

No!!!!! I can't believe I missed you guys in Seattle! It's the first time I've done so, and I am very bummed. Was completely unaware you guys were even touring. Damn it.
Repo Man





Jun 29 2009 2:56 AM

the music is among my favorites.

come soon to LA please.
Attack Josh's Castle!





Jun 28 2009 8:11 AM

I had absolutely no idea that you were either on tour or doing all ages shows. I shall do my best to make both the Seattle and Portland shows.
CORE OF FIVES


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Jun 25 2009 10:20 PM

Thanks for the + enjoy the project

S
R.W. 1334





Jun 25 2009 11:22 PM

nice music.
thank you.
best.
Gérard Godin Peintre/Sculpteur





Jun 24 2009 11:51 AM

bravo ! et merci ! Artistiquement. Gerard Godin
[A]





Jun 24 2009 3:02 PM

i love your music.
greetings.
ephemeroL





Jun 24 2009 4:05 PM

Hey you!!!

We love your sound!!!

Greetings from

ephemeroL
Payne Receptors(NEW TRACK) Pyromancy!!!





Jun 24 2009 1:09 AM

Thanks for the add! You guys have an awesome experimental sound! I hope that you enjoy my music as well!

--Peace and Love!!!
HELANGÅR





Jun 5 2009 11:16 AM

I liked your concert with Secret chiefs in williamsburg a lot! Especially the first song was great!
cherio and greetings from germany!
Nick Davis





Jun 3 2009 2:36 AM

Please come to Louisville sometime. Or at least somewhere close.
I would let you guys crash at my place and I would cook for you guys (cereal) while "The Drift" by Scott Walker plays.

This is my dream.
Hammerfist!





Jun 2 2009 12:51 AM

Great shows Friday and Saturday, thanks! Have fun in Canada, hope to see you again soon.
Matthew Serra





Jun 1 2009 3:16 AM

since i was most unfortunately foiled in my plans to see you tonight before you depart to northerner regions, i MOST FERVENTLY encourage you to play a pennsylvania gig this summer or do a european tour in the fall or spring, starting with spain. (please?)
Klaus Kemal König





May 24 2009 5:59 PM

respect and adoration! Floration in art and music!!!
eric





Jun 12 2009 9:15 PM

Wow. The new stuff is just.....
Isadora





Jun 15 2009 5:21 PM

You guys manage to cover all the emotional spectrum, from the most beautifully mellow, to the divine chaos that just hits you right in the face. Wayfarer, the Manifold Curiosity and Symmetrical Arizona are some of my all-time favorite songs.
Thanks for accepting my friend request. Hope you've got the time to check out our music.
Andrés
didend





Jun 13 2009 7:30 PM

amazing show at the el rey. it's awesome to see toby playing bass, and mia playing guitar. can't wait for the new album.
This Yand Is My Yand





Jun 12 2009 8:38 PM

How's about another couple Portland shows?

Eh?
victor





Jun 10 2009 7:31 PM

very excited to see you tonight with secret chiefs 3
amorninghost





Jun 10 2009 11:39 PM

You folks were very awesome last night at the El Rey. Please come back soon.
Gabrielle.





Jun 12 2009 8:02 PM

please come back to jacksonville sometime. <3
CRANIAL





Jun 12 2009 6:47 PM

hey
thnk u very much for the add!!
great music
saludos!
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