Blue Lambency Downward, by Kayo Dot

Blue Lambency Downward

by Kayo Dot

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El Principe Two epic 10-minute tracks bookend a series of short, dream-like vignettes, awash with glimmering chords, intricate but subdued drumming, and winding, serpentine melodies that lull you into a world where the distinction between light and sound collapses. Favorite track: Symmetrical Arizona.

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1.	Blue Lambency Downward 09:59	buy track
2.	Clelia Walking 05:29	buy track
3.	Right Hand Is the One I Want 06:53	buy track
4.	The Sow Submits 04:02	buy track
5.	The Awkward Wind Wheel 03:29	buy track
6.	The Useless Ladder 02:40	buy track
7.	Symmetrical Arizona 10:49	buy track

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The more we write these things, the more we begin to think that words simply don’t suffice. It’s like, first Pyramids, then Torche, and now this: Back-to-back-to-back WTF?s. We were thinking about how we should describe Blue Lambency Downward, and all kinds of phrases popped up—phrases like “a sonic experience unlike any other,” “Kayo Dot send irreverent compositional colors and supreme tonal iridescence bursting through the underground’s monotonous black & white” or “Kayo Dot levy a jazz-tinged sadness upon experimental rock’s triumphalist tendencies”—phrases sullied by overuse, vague incompatibility and the fact that if you’re reading this with even a passing interest, the word “jazz” probably bums you out. And yet multi-instrumentalists Toby Driver and Mia Matsumiya lull you into a dream state with a small cavalcade of instrumentation, plying an almost noir-ish sensibility at once moody and contemplative, bristling and demure. With a history that includes avant-metallurgists Maudlin Of The Well (Driver was the band’s, uh, driving force), John Zorn’s Tzadik Records (2003’s Choirs Of The Eye), Robotic Empire (2006’s Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue), and instruction from renowned jazz musician Dr. Yusef Lateef, Kayo Dot have delivered an unclassifiable masterpiece.

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released May 6, 2008

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KAYO DOT is an undefinable band led by composer Toby Driver. All the other projects and titles on this page are also the work of Toby Driver. Several additional titles are also available exclusively through our subscription service.

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