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Sylvan Lane
Sylvan Lane Bio:

Thanks to all of you who have been listening! Please be sure you leave your comments. If you're not from the USA, we'd love to hear how you came across our music and what you think. Of course, the same goes for our friends here in the US, but how you got here is a little easier to surmise. :D

Sylvan Lane (http://www.sylvanlane.com/) is a Kansas City area songwriting duo (mainly instrumental), with the guitar as their instrument of choice. Not to mention that it's the only instrument that either one of them play remotely well.

You can also find us at http://www.myspace.com/sylvanlane to find out the latest news.

Visit us at http://www.sylvanlane.com/ to hear our interview on The GROWL, Missouri State University's student-run internet radio station, and only student-run station. You can also hear us on an episode of American Dissent Radio with Chris Cronin, who has since stopped doing the show.


"Falling" » Acoustic 3 Comments - Rate it! - Add to favorites!
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"Let the Man Breathe" » Acoustic 3 Comments - Rate it! - Add to favorites!
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This song got it's name from the fact that if you listen closely, you can hear Brandon breathing from time to time. He, like many guitarists (so we've heard anyhow) has a strange breathing pattern whilst playng. The song previously had no name, so after listening to the recording, and discovering there was no way to get rid of the noise from his heavy breathing, we decided to "Let the Man Breathe."    

"Dull The Senses (Live 08/25/07)" » Acoustic 1 Comments - Rate it! - Add to favorites!
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An old tune made new. This is the first recording of the song. For those of you that have asked us about lyrics, here they are.

Unfortunately there is a lot of background noise in most of these recordings from this show. The performances are less than perfect as well.
   

"Ficus - Live! 02/02/2008" » Acoustic 0 Comments - Rate it! - Add to favorites!
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This a very recent live recording. I haven't polished it much from the mix captured at the source. I might sometime, but hope to get a better recording of this before that!

The vocals aren't very loud, but we planned it that way. It's something that we're messing with. Once we get a recording with a better performance, I'll put it up to replace this one. Thanks and hope you enjoy!
   

"Falling (Live 08/25/07)" » Acoustic 2 Comments - Rate it! - Add to favorites!
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A new take on a familiar tune.    

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Named after a street in a German town you've never heard of.    

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Here's a recent review of 'Ficus':

"St. Joseph, MO's mainly instrumental Sylvan Lane sound a little like American Football and a lot like Owen (Mike Kinsella's current project). In "Ficus," Brandon Bone and David Hawk sing something about fissures and wakes and pressure, and it's all vague and pretty and it really works, breaking up the twinkly monotony. It's almost overwhelmingly tasteful, but, like Kinsella's projects and a lot of the Jim O'Rourke-influenced post-rock stuff coming out of Chicago in the past decade or so, it's tempered with this genuine melancholy that keeps it from sounding like the score to some Pilates workout video." - Kellen Perry, Oct. '07
   

"The Loneliest Monk/An Exercise in Patience - Live" » Acoustic 0 Comments - Rate it! - Add to favorites!
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The first of the two songs is a new one.    

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This is an earlier version of "Ficus." We traded some painting on the studio owner's house for some studio time. We only had a few hours to produce this and another song, "Let the man Breathe." Those of you who are already familiar with the version of "Ficus" already posted, or those of you who are here for the first time and listen to both will hear a huge difference between the two versions. We hope you enjoy this older version.    

"Improv (Live 08/25/2007)" » Acoustic 1 Comments - Rate it! - Add to favorites!
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This is built between 4 or 5 core themes at the moment. It's something that we mess with and performed it for the first time. We need to get more comfortable with it. It was still fun to perform.    

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This is a collection of out-take snippets that our friend and recording engineer Derek Haff put together after many sorry attempts at recording our most popular song.