David Hawk: Guitar, Vocals; Brandon Bone: Guitar, Vocals
Influences
Too many to name, but here are a few: Tortoise, Godspeed, Mogwai, Leo Kottke, Bach, Autechre, music of the Sefardic Jews of Northern AfricaA Silver Mt. Zion, Andres Segovia, Django Rheinhardt, Dianogah, Prefuse 73, Yindi Halda, Charlotte Bronte, Massive Head Trauma, Hrvatski, Ben Folds (5), Paul Davies, Do Make Say Think, Paco De Lucia, Armenian Tar music, Captain Murphy, Gregor Samsa, Broken Social Scene, Richard Dawkins, Built To Spill, Matt Ridley, Benevento/Russo Duo, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Don Caballero, Ernst Busch, Weird "Al", Charles Darwin, Sigur Ros, Pelican, Black Billy Sunday, The Third Eye Foundation, Volumen, Dirty Three, The Russian Futurists, Steven Pinker, The Evpatoria Report, Fugazi, Vivaldi, Uzbek music from northern Afghanistan, Boards of Canada, Udi Hrant, Hot Carla, Steven Levitt, Hungarian gypsies, Gill Scott-Heron, Explosions in the Sky, Four Tet, Fly Pan Am, Kool Kieth, Isaac Asimov, Mono (JP not UK), To Rococo Rot, Red Sparowes, Calexico, MC Chris, Jared Diamond, Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali, The Samuel Jackson 5, NARAYANRAO VYAS, Regina Spektor, Goetz Widmann, Turkish gypsies, Dead Kennedys, Aesop Rock, Elvis Costello, Set Fire to Flames, our moms... The list goes on and on, but we don't sound like any of them.
Sounds Like
the feeling you get right after you shine your shoes
Here's what a listener recently had to say about our song Ficus:
"Honestly, you guys could just recite the names of Negro League outfielders over and over and it'd be lovely." - Kellen Perry
David and Brandon formed Sylvan Lane in early 2000. At the time, David was living in Columbia, MO and Brandon in Springfield, MO. Both members attended high school together and had kept in close touch. They also shared a similar taste in music and party favors, which led to frequent visits. Jam sessions often ensued durring these visits. Since the duo had been focusing on rock for as long as they had been playing the guitar, they mostly concentrated on acoustic music when together, and eventually that became the format.
Due to distance, the two met twice monthly to work on material and record. Soon after they had formed, Brandon widened the gap by jumping the pond to Europe; at which point, the colaboration became yearly, with the guys preparing more material between visits. They even managed to get some studio time and record their first demo durring one of these visits. David played several shows as 50% of Sylvan Lane in the interim, and the interest that was generated further increased the inevitability of an eventual full time project.
In the fall of 2004, the members of Sylvan Lane reunited and now reside in the Kansas City, Mo area. Since this reunion they have been able to put together material that had been in the works for years. Derek Haff was kind enough to offer his time and, most importantly, his talents in the studio to help put together a few more tracks. David and Brandon are currently working on new material and hope to be booking shows in the region and beyond in the near furture. Their music has been featured on several talk radio programs as "bedding" music including most recently on KCUR 89.3 fm, Kansas City's regional NPR broadcast station.
you can also check out a few more tunes and download them at unsignedbandweb.com by copying and pasting the following link:
Good stuff as well! Thanks for checking us out through the unsigned band site... wasn't sure if people actually browsed through there too much. If you're ever in WI or MN, we'd be happy to get you pointed in the direction of a few venues up here!
Thanks for your input it was greatly appreciated.Oh by the way sorry about the weak mix I overdid the EQing a bit.Thats not the final version.(it sounded really good on my system) ahh well back to the mixing board.
But thank you good sir, you basically covered my new project in a nutshell.
Brandon, do you have a cd out? I guess I should of looked through your page to see, but I am cleaning house today and needed some good music to clean with and your style was just what I needed today to get things done.
"Almost Overwhelmingly Tasteful"... I like that. Sounds right to me. Very cool, guys. Keep me up on how things are going for ya', and thanks for the add. -- George
Dear friends! You may have recently lost your shadows. We hope to help you find them. They may have been misled in our last "Machination" video which is available on our profile. Hope you will enjoy it and don't hesitate to give us your feedback! Cheers L & N de fH
