Cloudland Canyon
Biography
Kip Uhlhorn and Simon Wojan began collaborating under the moniker Cloudland Canyon in 2000. Both have toiled in various music scenes (hardcore, psych and punk) since the last century.
Kip Uhlhorn, touring Europe with Panthers in 2002, met up with German multi-instrumentalist Simon Wojan, tapes were exchanged and a handful of improv performances across the Atlantic forged a promising creative pairing, one that would take shape when Wojan made the trek to Brooklyn later that year. Through a week’s worth of 12 hour days in the recording studio, armed with as many instruments and computers as they could find, the two assembled the basic tracks for Requiems der Natur 2002 - 2004: rattling, sprawling experiments that fused their musical discoveries, which take the shape of its container, then rapidly spill out and fill whatever size of space they’re given.
2007 saw the release of their Silver Tongued Sisyphus EP, a secular call to prayer with humming, looping and loping ambient passages interspersed with bursting rhythmic energy and agitated guitar lines.
Recent collaborations with Kranky artiste Lichens took the duo into transcendental musical territories, the much lauded Exterminating Angel album was releases on Holy Mountain in 2007.
In their newest full-length, Lie In Light (Kranky), the masters of Krautrock have created an eclectic and rewarding listen, that traverses a wide swath of territory.
