Stay Hard

The new EP from

MICHAEL COLUMBIA

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1. Dog Dog Camel  
2. T.E. Lawrence  
3. Out of Every  
4. Predator  
5. Bengal Tiger  
6. Call off your Buffalo  

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06.26 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle

07.07 Chicago, IL - South Union Arts

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David McDonnell

Keyboard, Sax, Bass, Electronics

Dylan Ryan

Drums, Keyboards, Electronics

High-flying super-duo Michael Columbia unleashes “Stay Hard,” and takes their unique brand of cosmos-charged party times to new heights.

Experimental-Rock vets via Chicago, Philly, and Athens, the duo of David McDonnell [Bablicon (Misra), Need New Body (File 13)], and Dylan Ryan [Icy Demons (Cloud), Orso (Perishable)] fashion a stylized synthesis of psychedelic drone, searing saxophone, and heavy beats that recall the efforts of Hawkwind and Faust, layering electronics, rhythm, and melody under the watchful eyes of Syd Barrett and Miles Davis. It’s as though one minute you’re flying through the future to the soundtrack of Bladerunner, the next you’re riding shotgun with Gene Hackman, it’s 1974, and he’s just commandeered your vehicle.

Can Halen, suckers!

Discography

These are Colored Bars, 2004

Alabaster/Galapagos 4

1. Mouse  
2. Duress  
3. Baseball Museum
4. Hobart
5. Mr. Bulgia
6. Thank You Jeremy
7. Unknown Shape  
8. Special Export
9. Martian Song
10. Buzz Aldrin

Recorded at Shape Shoppe, June 2004
Engineered and mixed by Griffin Rodriguez
Artwork by Sayre Gomez
Mastered by Derek Almsted

Michael Columbia, 2002

Self-released

1. Prelude of the Steps
2. Coffee
3. Future Detective
4. Hot Alien Girl
5. Least Heat Moon
6. Marathon Guy
7. Emergence
8. Rabbit Avalanche
9. Ottummwa
10. Ocular Scan
11. Imaginary Beasts

Recorded at the Shape Shoppe, April 2002
Engineered by Griffin Rodriguez
Mixed and produced by Butchy Fuego
Artwork by Butchy Fuego
Mastered by Derek Almsted

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