Cloudland Canyon (band)


Cloudland Canyon is an experimental rock/psychedelic rock band originally from New York, USA.
Cloudland Canyon was formed in 2002 by Kip Uhlhorn and Simon Wojan. After several years of long distance collaboration for 2010's album Fin Eaves, which has become their best-received work to date, landing on numerous year-end lists. They went on tour with the Flaming Lips as well as with Interpol and Bear in Heaven. Members of the Arcade Fire even name checked the band
Uhlhorn has also played in several other successful groups and bands during this time, including King Khan & the Shrines, Panthers, Pharaohs, Eden Express, and Tav Falco's Panther Burns. He has also played guitar live and on albums by Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca, including Chatham's Crimson Grail, which was staged at Lincoln Center. Cloudland Canyon's ranks have included close friend Jerry Fuchs who died in 2009. Most recently, Memphis drummer Ross Johnson has joined the band.
Cloudland Canyon continues to release records with musical reference points in krautrock repetition and drone, shoegaze haze and even cosmic disco.
Recently, Uhlhorn and Cloudland Canyon have begun working with Sonic Boom formerly of the band Spacemen 3 and currently of Spectrum, and Experimental Audio Research. 2012 saw Cloudland Canyon collaborate with longtime friend Robert A.A. Lowe/Lichens on the score for the film Miss Lovely which won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The band also contributed music to visual artist Doug Aitken's iPad/iphone app entitled “Altered Earth”.
In 2013, Cloudland Canyon began work on a new album in the latter half of the year with Sonic Boom producing and mixing the album which is set to be released in 2014.