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concise past
(a touch before 2000 into 2001)

• gatherings and playing at the old forest city gallery, home of the nihilist spasm band
• fractured big-band get-togethers with no “agenda” or “idea”
• name lifted from a william s. burroughs rant (popping up in other reads as well)

2002 and ongoing

• solidified our live and recorderly lineup
• kinghaxi records is established as guerrilla micro label
• recorded seven albums independently (our folk art) with andy magoffin at his house of miracles
• collaborated and improvised twice with the master vocalist damo suzuki
• duotone records helps release the kinghaxi catalogue in japan
• our label co-operatively stretches out to include cailen dye (oblq), figure and ground, fujita scale, talugung, and a person diguised as people
• worldly and home-made instruments are collected for recording
• touring finds us a new canada
• a northern chorus, absent sound, akron/family, as the poets affirm, below the sea, bloemfontein, cj boyd, destroy all dreamers, domakesaythink, don caballero, explosionsinthesky, from fiction, great lake swimmers, holy fuck, i have eaten the city, mahogany frog, no birds, oneida, people for audio, sandro perri, polmo polpo, sing that yell that spell, starsofthelid, tokyo police club, what seas what shores, all sell more merch than us at shows
• we befriend liverpools' loka (ninja tune) and embark on an 8 day mini tour throughout south western ontario and quebec
• friend in life and sound, wil byrick leaves the group

discography

• hand carving hand (2007)
• enceinte (2005)
• fallen reverends (2004)
• remote mote locations (2004)
• red pawn e.p. (2004 - out of print)
• bow or bow (2003)
• hail of knives (2002 - out of print)