Relayted

when ryan olson decided to make a record with solid gold members zack coulter and adam hurlburt, and also adding justin vernon of bon iver, it was clear to them what the result would be: a collection of drugged-up keyboards and slick bedroom production almost exclusively inspired by 10cc's 'i'm not in love.' to be fair, they weren't entirely off. what they didn't know was that it would spiral into a project of epic proportions, enlisting the talents of over 25 musicians from various scenes around the country, relocating the base of operations from olson's minneapolis bedroom /studio to the wisconsin-based studio april base, and the genesis of a musical family, gayngs. from the moment anyone heard olson, coulter, and hurlburt's rough version of their first composition 'the gaudy side of town,' they wanted in on it. to most of the players involved, this genre of music was quite foreign yet entirely familiar. olson knew this, and began calling upon an eclectic cast of contributors