Halcyon Daze: The Pelican
Halcyon Daze: The Pelican
Format: CD
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Artist: Halcyon Daze
Label: Klanggalerie
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5052571205327
Genre: Jazz
Halcyon Daze - The Pelican / Debut album by US jazz-punk band following in the footsteps of bands like The Lounge Lizards and Last Exit / initially founded in 2015, after a period of shuffling members and names, Halcyon Daze settled on it's final lineup by early 2016 of then-high schoolers Ivan Cunningham (saxophones), George Adzick (woodwinds), Nicholas Christenson (guitars), and Samuel Stroup (drums). At this point, the band entered it's peak of activity within the Twin Cities jazz scene of the time, performing at many of it's most prominent venues and DIY spaces while building up an extensive songbook of original compositions and idiosyncratic covers. Though the members of the band have continued to collaborate frequently on various other projects, as they eventually spread between Chicago, Los Angeles, and Paris, the band's activity as a quartet slowed until their final public performance in 2018. In the summer of 2016, after Adzick's and Stroup's graduation, the band also recorded eight songs, seven originals by Cunningham, Stroup, and Christenson along with one Senegalese psychedelia cover, to 8-track tape which, due largely to financial constraints, was never released until now. The Pelican combines simple tunefulness, distorted aggression, and careful exploration of musical space, showing a group full of youthful energy and fearlessness. Following most obviously in the footsteps of jazz-punk bands like The Lounge Lizards and Last Exit, the group also reflects diverse influences from La Monte Young to Louis Moholo-Moholo and, most importantly, 2010s Twin Cities jazz bands like Vector Families and Cory Healey's Beautiful Sunshine Band.
Tracks:
1.1 Dirt Date
1.2 Ten-Gallon Belt Buckle
1.3 Wheelwright
1.4 Mbaye Sasu
1.5 Theme from the Pelican
1.6 Bolegdeh
1.7 The Cinnamon Challenge
1.8 Big Blue
