Dylan Ryan / Sand -Sky Bleached (CUNEIFORM 2013)

The three musicians who comprise Sand are well known in both the rock/alternative and jazz worlds. Drummer & leader Dylan Ryan is a member of the rock band Cursive and the leader of the 'jazz & beyond' outfit Herculaneum. For this project he recruited fellow Angelenos Devin Hoff (Nels Cline Singers, Xiu Xiu, Mike Watt, Joshua Redman) on bass and Timothy Young (John Zorn, Fiona Apple, Beck, Mike Patton) on guitar.

"I had the idea to write songs for a jazz band that had elements of Black Sabbath, the Cure, Jaco-era Joni Mitchell, and free jazz. I intentionally made the free playing and the composed sections less compartmentalized. The idea is to have a really great sounding rhythm section that can stretch out and make music spontaneously, and naturally together. Sand is a jazz band, but it reflects the different things I grew up on and listen to; It reflects the fact that I am playing jazz, but that I wasn't born in 1945." Dylan Ryan.
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