• Evan Berodt - bass
• Derry de Borja - keyboards
• Dave Bryson - drums
• Brandon Butler - guitar, vocals, harmonica
• Joe Winkle - guitar

In search of international citizenship, through the cloudy waters and endless highways of the circuit that's been home to every hero you've ever had. This is the long journey, surrounded by troubled friends and aspiring supermodels, and when you forbid any more photos of yourself, for the same reason you used to find them funny, you bite the hand that feeds and go start another band. An accordion is a sideways piano, a youth prison is the crowd you've dreamed of and the rule of stop, drop and roll isn't exclusive to being on fire. These are the new rules, sent down the river that lodged; gates of Eden, the losing end, small change, George Harrison, robo, 2001 and 10, black russians, jack and his girl ginger, in the reeds where pharoahs' daughters found them and raised them as their own.

Canyon began on the stairs between three parties on two balconies, between the zoo and the pharmacy, where deep discussions during five-dollar cab rides revealed an odd quest for leaving. Leaving casual hobbyists, rabid collectors and their calling cards behind, for the closing ceremonies you hold at every fence worth jumping, because the perfect soundtrack to the march against death are the songs we have stuck in our heads.

Canyon's second, "Empty Rooms" is ten songs, forty-three minutes of spacious American music, written in August 2001. The album reveals the headlong dive into the experiment, offering a panoramic view into night and the slower days of supernatural psychic wars. The stories of journeys, bitter talk in the backrooms of weddings, love at the bottom of the sea, and the ultimate resurfacing you'll have to survive in order to keep the moon at your back and the cross off your heel.

A history as long as ten years for two, Robert Winkle and Brandon Butler have been communicating through music since meeting in Kansas City, with details fuzzy and reasons unclear. Each chose a coast and departed in late1997, for what now seems like creative gestation. Reunited two years later on the east coast and finding themselves beyond control of the complex motion of fate they met three others, Derrick DeBorja, Evan Berodt, and David Bryson. The five toured extensively on a sparsely promoted, yet well-received first album simply titled "Canyon". Returning home to begin the processes now known as "Empty Room," to be released on New York's Gern Blandsten records, tours are being planed for the next year, throughout the United States and abroad.

Releases

• Ten Good Eyes - single, out 02/06/2003 on Wichita. 1 review (read/post)

Features

• 21/09/2007: Label Focus #10: Wichita Recordings

Links

• Canyon - official site

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