Kite Flying Society after winning Best New Artist in the San Diego Music Awards
MP3: Kite Flying Society - Oh, Amy! (unreleased track)
San Diego pop outfit Kite Flying Society just posted a bulletin on their Myspace that announced they’d be parting ways amiably. The group isn’t sure what that means for their unreleased-but-mostly-recoreded second album, The Aviary, but you can bet the songs will surface in some form. Here’s the break-up notice:
Hey Friends -
Just wanted to give you a heads up on the status of Kite Flying Society — we are now just friends instead of bandmates. There are a number of reasons why this is happening; however, it is mainly because two of our members are moving away from San Diego — Derek to San Francisco and John to Shanghai! This seemed like a good time for all of us to pursue other things, musical and otherwise.
Regarding The Aviary (for which we have about 9 tracks finished) — I believe we are going to be putting those up as free downloads on our myspace page very soon. We might do something Radiohead-esque and put our PayPal link below the tracks, letting you decide how much or how little you think we deserve for our efforts.
As for my personal musical future, I am taking 3-4 of my favorite, unpublished tracks from The Aviary recordings and combining them with a number of new songs to begin my next music project. I have all kinds of stuff written from this past year that I want to release. I am very excited about this and I will release tracks and details regarding the new project very soon.
Finally, I wanted to thank you all for the love, support, comments, wishes, and letters — you have truly made our efforts rewarding. I wish you all the best.
love,
Dustin
This comes as a blow to me and indie-pop lovers everywhere. I remember being overjoyed at work when someone suggested I listen to Kite Flying Society since I liked Page France — I already knew about the band, but was thrilled their good music was getting spread around. I wish the best to the band’s members and thank them for the great pop songs they’ve given us in such a short time.
