Cryns #3 Band BiographyCryns #3 is the brainchild of Toby Cryns, who, at 27 years of age, has been consistently writing music and playing in rock bands for over a decade. The album, ...if Howard Roark could dance, is based on a character from the Ayn Rand novel, The Fountainhead, a story about how society celebrates form over function. The main character in the novel, Howard Roark, is an architectural genius who creates and builds brilliant structures, which are constantly ridiculed by the press and his peers for not conforming to what is deemed to be aesthetically-pleasing to the masses. So goes the debut album from Cryns #3. After releasing an EP in 2003 with Minneapolis piano rock duo, Arthur Dent, Cryns, feeling overwhelmed by the structure being imposed on the music world by pop radio, decided to write an album that said what needed to be said and nothing more. What this translates into is an album that includes none of the fluff and niceties of your standard rock album. For example, there is no guitar solo grandstanding, no meaningless rhyming, and no endlessly repeating choruses. That is not to say that this is an artistic album, as it is rock to its core. The songs are gutsy and true. Cryns says what he needs to say, then leaves. Cryns spent the last 10 months recording the guitars and vocals for the 11 songs on ...if Howard Roark could dance in his own studio. Meanwhile, his brother, Noah, recorded all of the drums and most of the bass guitar parts from his professional recording studio in Los Angeles, CA. The two brothers emailed and snail-mailed the album files back and forth for almost a year before declaring confidence in the release. Guest musicians on the album include local bass aficionado, Bob Serrano (Pocahontas County, Loud Ray), David Brusie on piano, Nate Cryns on trombone, and the entire Cryns family, who recorded a marathon vocal session over Christmas 2005 in Los Angeles. Together, the performers on this album have over 75 years of recording and gigging experience!!! The songs to watch out for on the album are the small town anthem, Kids (track #7), and the rocking song of disappearing love, Boulder (track #3). Band members: Websites: |