Kyle Bronsdon: Bio, press releases, reviews, airplay, photos and clients

Once upon a time, as the worn needle of an outdated turntable made its way across the vinyl surface of Frank Zappa's Hot Rats, a tragically dorky pre-adolescent boy vibrated with an emotion he couldn't describe. Even girls, he soon found, didn't arouse quite the same feelings as Magical Mystery Tour and Dark Side of the Moon. By the time the boy was aware enough of the fairer sex to begin to understand his libido, bands like the Pat Metheny Group and Return to Forever were already drawing his developing hypothalamus into deeper, more profound regions of sensation.

But women are the creation of a greater artist, and the boy soon found that playing the drums won him far more of their attention than writing rudimentary programs on his Radio Shack TRS-80 computer, which had so captured his interest between Dungeons & Dragons and music. The boy became a man, and an entertainer was born.

Kyle now accompanies himself at the piano and tortures women with romantic songs about his wife with a performing style he describes as "like breaking out of jail."

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January 10th, 2006

Father of LSD Turns 100

Swiss Chemist Still Lauds Acid's Potential as January Marks 20 Years of "Just Say No"

Doctors, artists and iconoclasts alike are preparing to celebrate tomorrow's 100th birthday of Dr. Albert Hofmann, best known for his discovery of D-lysergic acid diethylamide or LSD.

Hofmann is pleased by current trends towards allowing scientists to continue the promising results of early LSD research, which came to an abrupt halt due to political pressures in 1970. The Nobel Prize Committee Member laments the irresponsible social use of his discovery that brought about the restrictions facing the medical profession for the last 30 years.

Coincidentally, this week will also see the 20th anniversary of President and Mrs. Reagan's "Just Say No" national address of September 14th, 1986.

Hofmann personally encouraged jazz songwriter Kyle Bronsdon to deal with the stigma and "prevailing misunderstanding in the general public regarding these kinds of 'drugs.'" Bronsdon honors the chemist's life and work and explores the dark history of the drug war in his new CD, "A Model Psychosis," released today on his Vitalegacy label.

The musician will be donating proceeds of the album to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a non-profit organization that helps researchers obtain funding and approval for legitimate studies of LSD, marijuana and other psychedelics. The proceeds will be used to re-print Hofmann's book, "LSD: My Problem Child," which has been out of print in English for years.

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• "His sound springs directly from lounge acts of the post-war 1940s and goes straight for your head...he creates original songs that feel timeless." -- Tucson Citizen
• "...one with la vie de cocktail." -- Kat Griffin, "Jazz in Song" KKJZ 88.1 FM Los Angeles, CA; "Madly Cocktail" KCSN 88.5 FM Northridge, CA
• "...a concept so single-mindedly his own...he sings beyond his years." -- Tucson Blues Society
• "...one of the best jazz artists on CD Baby!" -- Derek Sivers, President, CD Baby (largest seller of independent CDs on the web)
• "...reminiscent of that blues-jazz legend Mose Allison. And happily, Bronsdon's trademark clever, humorous lyrics remain intact." -- Tucson Weekly
• "...really intriguing...right up there with Bob Dorough and Dave Frishberg!" -- Dennis Woo, Music Director KTEP 88.5 FM El Paso, TX
• "...embodies everything rock 'n' roll rebelled against in 1954: swing, sophistication..." -- Tucson Blues Society
• "More cabaret cool than earlier pace-setting groups such as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the Brian Setzer orchestra." -- Tucson Citizen
• Songwriter of the Year, runner-up -- 2006 DIY Music Festival

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