DUCHESS LEO
is Dan Ryan and Todd Buchler. The duo have been friends for most of their lives, having grown up a few blocks away from each other in the suburbs of New Jersey. It wasn't until the fall of 2007 that they would begin making music together. Initially Todd brought his experience and knowledge of electronic music, breakbeat and DJ culture, and Dan contributed the skeletons of songs he'd been writing for the better part of 10 years which remained unfinished. The two recorded for a year resulting in a deep catalogue of material. Out of these songs shone the five that would be their first release, The Duchess Leo EP. Since then Todd has began taking piano, music theory and composition classes and Dan has devoted himself to learning the fundamentals of audio science as well as the software, tools and instruments of music production.

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LITTLE HORN
Little Horn started out as a lonely idea tucked away in hiding. The music started solo with no one to hear but the writer and the occasional passerby or friend. It would have succumb to a silent death had it not been for one such friend who watered it and encouraged it to fruition. That was the catalyst that released the music from isolation and into the collective . It was the beginning of the slow transition from solo to collaborative. A greater awareness of the driving influences behind the music was cultivated and people sympathetic to those influences appeared like blessings to lend a hand. Personal anguish collected over the rocky years and struggles with the lingering concepts of a bible belt past converged to start an outpouring. A bare bones album “Such Pretty Houses” was born and with it much of that anguish redeemed. Now with the ongoing addition of sympathetic musicians and a new outlook on life Little Horn is growing stronger. From one to many we are continuing to walk down the road where darkness and light intermingle and joy and sorrow flow from the selfsame well.