I ruined my life & then I made this song while coming off everything including your dad's revolution. 

Official Promotional Track leading up to:  The Found CDs.

Foghorn Nervous System

Tenderness & Empathy 

Produced by: Deacon LF
Additional Synth: Evan Tyler 
Vocals: Written + Performed by Evan Tyler 
Tenor Saxophone: Chloe Jackson Reynolds

Early mix and engineering by Ashton Price (Morph Productions, Toronto)
Final shape & mix by Max DeShaw (MaxDeshaw Mixes, Vancouver) 

Notes: 
The content reminds me of an action movie format delivered in GFK or Slick Rick story telling tradition parsed in episodic montages, in turn, a collage of modern tragicomical narratives of  Canadiana, trauma, failed intimacy and drugs. If you engage deeper there’s a timbre + tinge of Donny Darko if it were set in Regina, Saskatchewan in the early 2000s. Encounter stories of lived tragedy I became peripheral to or implemented in while growing up in Regina and then later Toronto; emcee skills propelled by an almost self-indulgent raw truth for the illusion of penitence; names changed out of respect to the diseased or those involved (mostly). Dark house story telling vibes good for thinking and dancing and backwards advancing. 
Burial meets Dan Lorin but RAP. 

Thank you Erin Gee for believing in this song before it was fully shaped. Thank you Cheyanne for being in my life today. Thanks to my collaborators and “the most high”, whom I often (though not often enough) -  pray to.

Tenderness & Empathy

Recorded in Vancouver, Canada
Engineered, mixed & mastered by Max DeShaw

Sherborne & Dundas (Featuring Mr.Constriktus + Produced by Deacon LF)

"Your Hysterical" is the third single from EVAN TYLER's debute album CAT RAPS. Download the album now:
www.evantyler.bandcamp.com 

You're Hysterical (topless literati + EVAN TYLER)

"Scratch that Post" is the catchy 90's reminiscent dance/rap number off the album "CAT RAPS". A song about cats looking out of windows beyond cityscapes.  
 Written and performed by EVAN TYLER 
Produced by Phrayze

3. Scratch That Post

"On a date with Ira Lee" is a collaboration between long time friends and Canadian rap makers EVAN TYLER  and Ira Lee. 

Produced by Guidewire
https://guidewire.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/guidewire.sounds?fref=ts

8. On A Date With Ira Lee Ft. Ira Lee

"My friend Dana"

Album: CAT RAPS
Written and performed by EVAN TYLER
Produced by Afro Keys 
2015

10. My Friend Dana

"Peculiar Freedom"

Album: CAT RAPS
Written and performed by EVAN TYLER
Produced by Phrayze


14. Peculiar Freedom

"Versions of myself"

Album: CAT RAPS
Written and performed by EVAN TYLER
Produced by Cratez
2015

6. Versions Of Myself

Enjoy this cyber-smashing remix of "My girlfriend's laptop" by the homie rsty. 

https://soundcloud.com/toogoodlimegreen

2015

My girlfriend's laptop RSTY REMIX

A raw ass boom-bapified remix by Guidewire who also produced the original mix on "CAT RAPS". 

https://guidewire.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/guidewire
https://www.facebook.com/guidewire.sounds?fref=ts

Golden Curtains Intersect Mix

Boxy white business suits, pony tails, oxygen bars and smart phones. Enjoy this rap/dance anthem for the smarmy, awful, overly friendly Bay St. big shot (ie. "Lounge Lord" ). You see them in the hotel lobby, on their phones outside of banquette halls, but most commonly this species can be observed in its natural habitat -- the lounge. 

Lounge Lords (a topless literati collaboration)


Dim Sum has been a staple of my emotional well-being since I was a child. Over the years I have befriended many Dim Sum chefs and enthusiasts. The most memorable is Mike -- a dim sum chef in Finland. This song is for him. Also an owed to the stresses and frustration of the city of Toronto and the various ways we deal with that shit. I take the Dim Sum route. 

The Dim Sum Circuit (Mike's Song)


I've been living in NYC in my head since 1989. Follow me on this psychic journey that maps by Saskatchewan roots, Toronto metropolitan experience and the ever present psychic space of living in New York. I'm a copycat New Yorker. 

Wherever you are (in this real world)

Have you ever heard someone say they don't like something because it lacks "nuance" or "subtly"?  This rap/dance jam is dedicated to the "nuance obsession"; A bratty critique of sorts, fused with bravado and rappy rap rap. 
Shout out to my collaborator topless literati and dedicated to our dear friend and supporter, Lisa Wiklund. 

So Nuanced (with topless literati)

I'm a child of the late 80's/early 90's library world. This song is an ode to the downtown branch Regina Public Library and all the subsequent reading adventures that stemmed from the shelves of that institution. Singer and composer extraordinaire Vanessa John on the vaguely optimistic 90's style r&b hook. 

Da Library (with Vanessa John)


Psychedelic rap. Cosmic lyrical quest. 



DROID KITES (with 73stan)

Once upon a time I discovered the sheer pleasures of expensive spa products and face masques. Since then I have lost interest in hip fashion, sneakers, vintage throw back gear, etc. The only thing I need to be fresh on that ass is my plethora of fancy skin creams and lubricants. It's the Big Fresh! 

The Big Fresh


This is a song about my relationship to my imagination which has seemingly presented itself through a blue filter since 1990. It is also a song about escaping into the imagination during formative elementary school hours. It is also a song about using the fruits of the imagination to escape drug addiction. 

The Color Blue


This is an epic story about anthropomorphizing objects in the pursuit of establishing empathy and reciprocity when humanity fails in this department. It is a collaboration between myself and the man who inspired me to become a rapper who raps about feelings. The great Ira lee/Forest In His Heart 

The Rose Parade (with Ira Lee)

Remember when Homer ate the insanity chilli and went on a vision quest?  Remember mandatory eccentric early 90's jazz/hip-hop saxophone  solos?   Enjoy this psychedelic rhyme quest through the caverns of a  pyramid in search of a grey-eyed rap guru wolf. The pink and blue mermaids will guide you into eternity. 

Based on a true story. Original song by EVAN TYLER. 
Saxophone solo by the homie Marcus Ali. 
Original artwork by the homie Josh Folden. 

Pink And Blue Mermaids (with Marcus Ali)

Everyone has a happy place they go to in their head; mine is musical icon Sade's summer house. Listen in and experience my most visceral and intimate fantasy about being best friends with Sade. Are there any rap songs out there about platonic relationships with women?  Prolly not many. But hey, this is one!  

Best Friends With Sade


Don't sleep in this remix of "Lounge Lords" featuring the always kaleidoscopic MC HIROSHI. 

Original song for the album MUSEUMARANG (a topless literati collaboration) 

LOUNGE LORDS REMIX with MC HIROSHI

Raps like someone on too much or too little of something high octane and crucial; often misunderstood on encounter as turrets or mental illness by the elderly and beyond. Super dope stuff. Niche Canadian hip-hop.

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