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Did you know people can fly? An influential composer once posed a troubling question: If music is dying, are musicians the ones killing it? Have these same musicians let the external dictate and decompose their creativity? Their integrity? Their sense of vision? On the eve of Kaddisfly's 2003 offering Did You Know People Can Fly?, it is apparent that the Oregonian quartet have both struggled with this question, and emphatically reacted to its significance. Holding on to every sense of their artistic integrity, the band has consciously put its faith in one cyclical principal of the humanistic third dimension: Intelligent, engaging, and passionate art will forever remain a constant. From a linear perspective, Kaddisfly have come a long way since their conception in a rural Eugene chicken coupe at the turn of the Millennium. With the release of the 2001 EP Honorable Mention and the 2002 EP Humania, the band, through its incessant touring schedule and equally impressive studio albums, has built an impenetrable underground reputation for innovation and emotional substance. With three West Coast tours under their belt, and a 5-week East-Coast jaunt, the band, while slimly avoiding regular economic disaster, have fully honed their uncompromising, spastic, and hypnotic live performance. Gaining a substantial underground buzz that has manifest itself in showcases for Portland's 101.1 KUFO and 94.7 NRK, radio airplay throughout the national college circuit, and critical acclaim through the usual gauntlet of online magazines, the future is certain to bring a musical metamorphosis of noise, wavelength, and love. Kaddisfly's versatile, fearless, and eclectic sense of self will become apparent more than ever with the releases of 2003's Did You Know People Can Fly?. Produced by Enoch Jensen in a 9-day laboratory experiment, the resulting sonic wallpaper pulls together every lesson and mistake of the bands last three years. Dipping farther into their collective conscious, Kaddisfly's thematic and imageless 8-track opus shatters the confines of expectation, assumption, transparency, trend, and genre. For guitarist Aaron Tollefson, "when it came to writing this record, we wanted to wipe away everything people knew of us and resurface with a composition that couldn't be boxed, labeled, or formulaically packaged." The result is a challenging, poetic, and meaningful aural collage of ideas that transcends its listener into tranquil and philosophical comatose. Ideas matched only with emotional substance, Did You Know People can Fly? weaves together the conceptual cinematic vision of a film score with an aural landscape of hard rock, jazz, classical, and soul. For percussionist Beau Kuther, "We wanted to really challenge ourselves and write a record where every noise, texture, and color fit into the composition on a whole. " While paying homage to the musicians who inspire them, the bands perpetual search for influence goes far beyond any novel, poem, short story, film, or composition. With their self-imposed muse of originality, the band has sought comfort and refuge in the intangible subtext of the everyday elements of existence- the earth, sun, sea, and soil. For bassist Kile Brewer, "We are all of the same mind that if we are going to exist in this business for life, we will have to perpetually challenge ourselves, take risks, and never create the same record twice. The moment you grow static is the moment your music needs eyes." As Did You Know People Can Fly? is leaps and bounds from previous releases, the eclectic and versatile evolution of Kaddisfly will last long after the physical band is gone - michael. akira. yoshida. Write. Influence. Change. Live. Check out the artist's website: http://www.kaddisfly.com Track List: 1. 'ÂœWounds from a Friend Can Be Trusted'Â** 2. 'ÂœEnemies Multiply Kisses' 3. 'ÂœMidnight in Shanghai' 4. 'ÂœUnto Dark Hours, a Time Machine'Â** 5. 'ÂœVacation on an Invisible Plane' 6. 'ÂœManhattan Loves You' 7. 'ÂœUnabridged; En masse'Â** 8. 'ÂœDay Disappears With The Absence Of Night'¦ Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
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