Kayo Dot was formed after the disbanding of maudlin of the Well, a progressive heavy metal band which formed in 1996 and dissolved in 2003. Many past members of Maudlin of the Well — Josh Seipp-Williams, Sam Gutterman, Terran Olson, Andrew Dickson, and Toby Driver — studied at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts from 1996-2000, where My Fruit PsychoBells...A Seed Combustible was recorded. At Hampshire, Driver, Olson, and Dickson were students of jazz musician Yusef Lateef, whose theories of autophysiopsychic music influenced maudlin of the Well's, and to a greater extent Kayo Dot's, albums.
Driver has gone on to say on their website: "Some members of this project worked in the progressive-metal project-band maudlin of the Well from 1996 - 2003, at which time motW dismembered. Kayo Dot isn't much different from Maudlin of the Well musically - rather it's more like a continuation in the direction Maudlin of the Well had been progressing."
and has also said: "People are too preoccupied with whatever connection there may be between maudlin of the Well and Kayo Dot."
In May 2005, Tom Malone joined the band as their new drummer after Sam Gutterman (who also played in maudlin of the Well) left the band in March 2005 for unknown reasons. Kayo Dot then signed to Robotic Empire Records and released its second album, Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue, in January of 2006.
In 2006, near the end of the latest tour, four members—playing guitar, bass, drums, and trumpet—left the band for personal reasons. On the tenth of December, Greg Massi also left Kayo Dot on good terms stating he was going "to try and figure out other aspects of my musical life and take some time to figure out where I want to be going."
Kayo Dot is now signed to Hydra Head Records and has recently completed their new album, Blue Lambency Downward, set to be released on May 6th, 2008.
http://www.myspace.com/kayodotKayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue [Avantgarde Metal]
Авангард словами описать невозможно. В этом году я и познакомился с американской группой Maudlin of The Well которая стала Kayo Dot. Есть как гениальные, так и нудные вещи. Но альбом стоящий. Таких комбинаций и ходов в музыке я ещё не слышал. Хотя в этом альбоме есть акцент на атмосферность, которая порой ужасно затянута. Но гитара, скрипка, и вся сама композиция порой просто ошеломляют своим хитросплетением. Вокал мужской, переходит от слащаво-попсового до брутального. Но в целом судить про Кайо Дот по одному альбому никак нельзя...
Очень атмосферно, нестандартно и завораживающе, местами звучит очень мощно, где-то действительно затянуто, в общем, стоящая группа на мой взгляд!
