Just got in some copies of the Japanese version of BLD - wow!

We got our complimentary shipment of just a few copies of the Japanese version of Blue Lambency Downward in the mail today, and all we can say is ..wow.. these are amazing to us! Our first Japanese version of anything by us and it's very exciting! This version is a double CD album... Blue Lambency Downward proper on disc one, and then a mirror version of all the demos from Blue Lambency Downward on disc two (in the same order as the album). The demo versions are quite different from the finals, not having had Randall Dunn's treatments. Also there is an included full-page article added to the liner notes (written in Japanese of course) and there's also a small amount of new artwork gracing the CD faces - a beautiful stack of clarinets. Yay!

This Japanese issue was released by Daymare Records and is an absolute must-have for all Kayo Dot fans... we're not selling any, but it is definitely worth tracking down!

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Kayo Dot webstore is updated!

Hello all, we have just updated our webstore, where you can now purchase copies of the new record, plus the limited edition Seldon Hunt t-shirts as well as t-shirts from our domestic springtime dates.



http://www.kayodot.net

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Special Limited Edition Tees by Seldon Hunt

Hey everyone, Seldon Hunt has designed an exclusive T-Shirt for us for our European tour - here's what it looks like - (click to enlarge)! Available at our shows in Europe this month!

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BLUE LAMBENCY DOWNWARD is now streaming online...

You can now listen to a streaming mp3 version of our latest album Blue Lambency Downward at bluelambencydownward.com!

Pre-orders will be available through Hydra Head very soon!

Blue Lambency Downward, like all Kayo Dot records, is a continuously flowing piece of music best listened to nice and loud from beginning to end!

We hope you enjoy!

xoxox
Kayo Dot

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Video Excerpts of Songs from Blue Lambency Downward posted on Youtube!
Current mood: chill

Hello! Here are some excerpts from from a live performance at Monkey Town in Brooklyn, NY.


Right Hand is the One I Want

The Useless Ladder

Blue Lambency Downward

We hope you enjoy this preview!! :)
Love,
Kayo Dot

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Finally! Kayo Dot news on the upcoming album! YAY!

Hi everyone! At long last it's our great pleasure to announce the titles, tracks, and personnel info for our upcoming album on Hydra Head Records! The album is called Blue Lambency Downward and includes SEVEN songs. And, we also recorded an outtake which will be reserved as a bonus track later. The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Blue Lambency Downward
2. Clelia Walking
3. Right Hand is the One I Want
4. The Sow Submits
5. The Awkward Windwheel
6. The Useless Ladder
7. Symmetrical Arizona

The album personnel is as follows:

Toby Driver - acoustic, electric, 12-string, baritone, and bass guitars, soprano clarinet, voice, piano, organ, gamelan, analog synth, laptop mellotron
Mia Matsumiya - violin, voice

with guest musicians:

Charlie Zeleny (Behold the Arcopus) - drumset
Skerik - tenor and baritone sax, vibraphone
Hans Teuber - soprano and bass clarinets, alto sax, flute
Dave Abramson (Diminished Men) - gamelan and additional percussion
B.R.A.D. (ASVA, The Accused, Burning Witch, Master Musicians of Bukkake) - additional vocals
Randall Dunn - sound effects and synth design

and the album was produced by RANDALL DUNN (Sunn0))), ASVA, Boris, Earth, etc!)

The release date and coinciding tour dates are set for mid-March 2008. We will be posting audio samples sometime within the next few weeks!

So yup, that's that. Stay tuned. We'll keep you updated. :)

xo
Mia and Toby

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Tartar Lamb CD is now available!!!

At long last, Sixty Metonymies is here! Performed by Toby Driver and Mia Matsumiya and accompanied by Tim Byrnes and Andrew Greenwald under the moniker Tartar Lamb, this full-length CD package features the title piece, a modern electroacoustic quartet exquisitely recorded by Randall Dunn (Sunn0))), Earth, Kinski, etc) and beautiful hand-painted artwork by Toby printed in a high-quality parchment insert and contained in a classy fiberboard jacket. Twenty-one months in the making and 100% self-financed, we went through great personal strife just to bring you this delicious CD. We're selling it for $12 plus shipping (see shipping costs below). Please buy a copy by clicking this paypal button or sending payment to us at shirts@kayodot.net. Thank you!!!

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Split LP now available through Hydrahead with exclusive 5-button set!

Hydra Head has gotten a few copies of our UK-import-only split record with Bloody Panda into their shop and are now selling them with an exclusive 5-button set!

Check out this page for the ordering info!

bluecollardistro.com/hydrahead

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A few announcements!

New News!

1) The show at Full Force 2 went spectacularly! Thank you so much to Jesse Krakow and Dave Bodie (of Time of Orchids), Tim Byrnes (of Friendly Bears), and Ron Varod (of So Is the Tongue) for filling in. They did an amazing, passionate, and meticulous job on VERY short notice. You guys are the best! And thank you to their bands for letting us borrow them.

2) Kayo Dot's Toby and Mia have an ensemble called Tartar Lamb which will be touring to Seattle and back starting December 26th. Please check out our myspace page for sound clips and the dates... we'll also be accompanied by Tim and Andrew from Friendly Bears and will be performing some of Tim's music (Hazel-Rah) on this is tour as well! The tour concludes January 19th in New York City joined by the James Plotkin/Tim Wyskida duo (ex-KHANATE, KHLYST, BLIND IDIOT GOD)!

3) We have just very recently secured an agreement with Hydra Head Records to release the next Kayo Dot album! We plan to begin recording in late spring/early summer 2007, and are shooting for a late 2007/early 2008 release date! Yay!

4) Finally, Greg Massi has decided to leave Kayo Dot to focus on his own music. We will miss him. Go, Greg, go!

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Important News!

Hi everyone, we're finally back from tour.

Thanks so much to all who showed us their support and generosity over the past couple months! As you may have heard, four of our band members quit the band and went home a few days before the end of the tour. As a result, we've had to have to cancel all our remaining dates. We really apologize about that to all of you who were looking forward to seeing us this week. We have not "broken up;" this isn't the end of Kayo Dot, and we have exciting plans for the future of the band. Please remember that we have lost members before, and that remaining members Toby, Greg, and Mia created Choirs of the Eye without the help of the four who left, and we have no worries about being able to continue the band missing a portion of the Dowsing Anemone lineup.

In the near future, we are still planning to perform at Full Force 2 (the second of John Zorn's compositional rock fests in NYC) on December 8th in some form. We'll keep you updated on the details. Thanks again and we'll see you soon! :)

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