KITES OVERHEAD:

Gene Kondusky has three obsessions: literature, travel and music. The first two have together taken Gene, as an English teacher, to places as diverse as Japan, Turkey, and the Canadian Arctic. Not satisfied with leaving his third obsession by the wayside during his travels, Gene decided to pursue songcraft on the road without the benefit of a band. Reluctant to tread the same singer-songwriter-with-a-guitar path, Gene spent his days abroad creating loop-based ambient acoustic music under the moniker The Noble Son.

Returning to Canada, Gene shifted his technological focus away from the looping station, and toward the studio. Honing his craft in home studios in Ottawa, Montreal, and the isolated community of Inukjuak, on the eastern shores of Hudson Bay in the extreme north of Québec, Gene shifted his compositions away from the drone and ambience of his earlier work, and re-centred his craft somewhere near the intersections of rock, pop, folk and experimentation. Influences as disparate as Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Sigur Rós, Belle and Sebastian, The Postal Service, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor all fuse happily in Gene’s compositions. Seeing the departure in sound as a sea change, Gene cast off the old moniker and named the new project Kites Overhead.

NO-SOURCE RELEASES:
Boletes / Kites Overhead split

LINKS:
homeisnothere.com
kitesoverhead.com

 

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