Kenneth James Gibson Artist Bio

Kenneth James Gibson is a musician, composer, record producer, singer, songwriter currently in Los Angeles, California.

He was born in Canada, grew up in El Paso, Texas where he learned how to play guitar on his father’s acoustic guitar and received his first 4-track recorder at age 19. Gibson founded the 1990s noise rock band Furry Things, who released most of its material on King Coffey’s (of the Butthole Surfers) Trance Syndicate / Touch and Go Records imprint.

He has also released music that spans across many genres under aliases such as [a]pendics.shuffle, Eight Frozen Modules, dubLoner, Reverse Commuter, and Hiss & Buzz (with Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto). He founded the electronic music record label Adjunct Audio in early 2005 with friend Konstantin Gabbro, through Kompakt records.

Gibson along with Brian McBride of the drone-based ambient music duo Stars of the Lid, started the band Bell Gardens in 2009. Through the music of Bell Gardens, the two explore the realms of Americana, chamber pop, folk, ambient country, and psychedelic pop. He also recently collaborated with Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb on a track called “Whispers In” on his latest Reverse Commuter album titled Exposure. In April 2016, Gibson released his first full ambient album under his real name titled The Evening Falls on Kompakt Records and returned for a second album in March, 2018 titled In The Fields Of Nothing.

In 2017, Gibson started the band Toler Gibson with Gavin Toler of The Winter Flowers. According to his website the group makes music that fits under the “Cosmic American Music” banner.

He has directed music videos for artists such as Francis Harris and Dance Spirit as well as his own projects Reverse Commuter and Bell Gardens. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.