If you listened to the billy woods flash anthologyToday, I Wrote Nothing and were left questioning, among other things, who was the guy with the baritone voice on “Bicycles” and “Poor Company,” Canyonland is the best place to find your answer. For starters, it’s Henry Canyons, “a half-French Jewish Brooklynite transplanted to Los Angeles.” As you might’ve guessed from the aforementioned cameos, Canyons isn’t all tone and no substance; he has a story to tell and does so with the nomadic perspective and earned effortlessness of a true troubadour. And if some lingering influence of Capitalism and Schizophrenia should rear its zany head, so it goes. That’s life. “C’est la vie,” dun.
Canyonland also features the production work of real-deal Frenchman Keor Meteor whose Grand Theft Auto-themed San Andreas beat tapes receive my highest recommendation. [I don’t know where to put that blurb / can’t figure out a smooth way to ease it into the previous or next paragraph. My brain’s already on vacation. Listen to the music and leave me alone.]
Enter Canyonland via the video premiere below, stream/download the album at Bandcamp, and if you’re in the neighborhood, check out the Limited Edition CD also available as part of The Henry Canyons CD Collection. Rap hands, go:
• Henry Canyons: https://henrycanyons.bandcamp.com/music
• Keor Meteor: https://keormeteor1.bandcamp.com/music
• Backwoodz Studioz: http://backwoodzstudioz.com
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