Half/Brother
New York City, NY | Established. Jan 01, 2017 | SELF
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Half/Brother – “The Late Great Townes Van Zandt”
-This is a wonderful folk song. Half/Brother’s ode to Townes Van Zandt even feels like a Townes song. If it’s any consolation how I feel about this song, I just tweeted it directly to Steve Earle, one of the last few Townes experts on the planet. Yep, it’s that good. It’s not so much the performance as it is the spirit of the thing. He nailed it. - Ear to The Ground
As the summer ends, we start to reminisce of the good times and Half/Brother’s “Yesterday’s Glory” does just that with their own Americana twang. - Ride the Tempo
From the Artist : “This was the first song I wrote for the album, and I wrote it all in one night at my old apartment in Boston. It was summer and there wasn’t any Air Conditioning, so I just sat there, moving as little as possible, listening to the streets below. Everything feels immediate on a hot summer night—love,
hate; the past and the present. They are bonded in ways we can only perceive in moments of absolute stillness. “ - Live in Limbo
On first listen, “Waiting for the Rain” from New York-based singer-songwriter Half/Brother (aka Adam Kryzan) has a sense of innocence. But the past five years have been particularly unstable for Kryzan, who has moved from various cities, in the process leaving friends and family behind. The singer described this period as a time when, “[he] found [himself] a long way from home, and an observer and outsider in a world [he] was all of a sudden struggling to understand.”
With this in mind, “Waiting for the Rain” feels more wistful for a time that has come and past. The airy guitars lean more melancholy and resemble a cloudy day. “I’ve seen the sun fade, but I won’t run,” he sings here. After all that moving around and transience, Kryzan sounds ready to settle down. His style touts a gentle twang and caressing vocals that make it immediately accessible, despite additional depth to uncover with additional listens. - Obscure Sound
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Still working on that hot first release.
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On A Mountain is the debut release of Half/Brother, the band assembled to perform the music of singer-songwriter Adam Kryzan. After a move to New York in 2015, Kryzan found himself looking back to his childhood in Canada, where he spent summers on a family farm in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Influenced by these memories, Kryzan began writing for what would eventually become his first project as lead songwriter and vocalist: Half/Brother.
In late-2016, Kryzan traveled to Boston with a collection of songs and an assembly of trusted collaborators. In a colonial-era Jamaica Plain house, the band took shelter from a harsh New England winter and rehearsed, recorded, and shaped the sound of what would eventually become On A Mountain. The album that emerged is influenced heavily by the cosmic country and folk of the early 70’s. As personal as it is ambitious, On A Mountain is a memorable debut from an exciting and promising young songwriter.
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