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Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
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Gordon Hyland
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As a young boy, Gordon Hyland loved cars and computers, and wanted to be an aerospace engineer when he grew up. That dream was pushed aside, however, in his mid teens as he found himself irresistibly drawn into the world of music after discovering his grandfather’s record collection - and the siren songs of Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Duke Ellington, Count Basie - as well as winning an unexpected opportunity to go on a junior high band trip to Japan. Since then, with his trusty tenor saxophone in hand, Hyland pursued the music life diligently, ultimately obtaining both a Bachelors in Fine Arts and in Music (Concordia and University of Toronto), as well as a Masters in Jazz Performance (U of T) with a focus on saxophone and electronics
Disaster Pony
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Label: Lovetown Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: It's Got Tentacles; Robot Pain; Hot Like Bugs; Dead Neon & The Noon Sun; Angle Boys Of The
Cosmos; Fruit Flies In Cola; Sly, Dirty Machines; You're Still A Lousy Fink; Moons Become Planets.
Dead Neon & The Noon Sun
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Album: Disaster Pony
By Disaster Pony
Label: Lovetown Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:40
Disaster Pony: Disaster Pony
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by Glenn Astarita
Disaster Pony, the eponymous debut from the trio composed of Gordon Hyland, Adam Hindle and Ian Docherty, transcends the confines of a typical musical album to become a tempestuous jazz endeavor that finds itself amidst an electronic dance music (EDM) celebration. Envision a saxophone endowed with autonomy, weaving through electronic rhythms while adorned in a distinctive ...
NEVER DIE! by \\livingfossil//
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Label: Independent
Released: 2018
Track listing: macrophages; \\livingfossil//; NEVER DIE!; lorraine; satellite; baby steps; listen to the quiet voice; meta max; lessforgettable.
Gordon Hyland: NEVER DIE! by \\livingfossil//
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by Friedrich Kunzmann
\\livingfossil// is the most recent brainchild of Canadian saxophonist Gordon Hyland. The Toronto-based musician and composer continues to release his versatile compositions in a multitude of formations of various different names, such as the acoustic saxophone trio Simple Shapes or the progressive-electronic project Ninja Funk Orchestra. Members of the latter are reunited with Hyland on his ...
\\livingfossil//
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Album: NEVER DIE! by \\livingfossil//
By Gordon Hyland
Label: Independent
Released: 2018
Duration: 07:44
Gordon Hyland: NEVER DIE! by \\livingfossil//
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by Dan McClenaghan
The debut disc Never Die, by the Toronto-based collective, \\living fossil//, opens with a reverberant industrial hum, a droning metallic guitar sound that announces a distinctive and compelling group aesthetic. Saxophonist Gordon Hyland is the ringleader, though that isn't not apparent from listening. He and his cohorts have created a distinctive approach of echoing saxophone--sometimes two ...