Kip Uhlhorn and Simon Wojan (now in King Khan and His Shrines) began collaborating under the moniker Cloudland Canyon in 2000. Both have toiled in various music scenes since the last century.

Kip Uhlhorn, touring Europe with Panthers in 2002, met up with German multi-instrumentalist Simon Wojan, tapes were exchanged and a handful of improv performances across the Atlantic forged a promising creative pairing, one that would take shape when Wojan made the trek to Brooklyn later that year. Through a week’s worth of 12 hour days in the recording studio, armed with as many instruments and computers as they could find, the two assembled the basic tracks for Requiems der Natur 2002 - 2004 : rattling, sprawling experiments that fused their musical discoveries, which take the shape of its container, then rapidly spill out and fill whatever size of space they're given.

2007 sees the release of Silver Tongued Sisyphus, a secular call to prayer with humming, looping and loping ambient passages interspersed with bursting rhythmic energy and agitated guitar lines.

Cloudland Canyon has toured throughout the United States and Europe

Recent collaborations with Kranky artist Lichens and others have taken the duo into transcendental musical territories.

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