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Canyon is:
Evan Berodt —
Bass
Derry de Borja — Fender Rhodes, Organ, Accordion
Dave Bryson —
Drums
Brandon Butler — Guitar, Vocals, Lap Steel, 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.
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