Byla is an American ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 duo, formed in Brooklyn, NY in 2004 by Colin Marston

Colin Marston

Colin Marston is an American musician and record producer residing in NYC. He graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music technology in 2004, and runs The Thousand Caves Recording Studios, located in Woodhaven, Queens, while not on tour with one of his four active...

 (Behold... The Arctopus

Behold... The Arctopus

Behold... The Arctopus is an experimental metal band from Brooklyn, New York, United States.-Biography:Behold... The Arctopus was formed by Colin Marston and Mike Lerner, who had been playing guitar together for over a year-and-a-half by the time they found a drummer. Their demo We Need a Drummer ...

, Dysrhythmia, et al.) and Kevin Hufnagel

Kevin Hufnagel

Kevin Hufnagel is an American musician. He is known for fronting the progressive metal band Dysrhythmia, and for being a member of Gorguts.-Byla:*2005: Byla - Byla *2007: Byla + Jarboe - Viscera...

 (Dysrhythmia). They released their eponymous debut album in 2005.

Byla creates predominantly instrumental

Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....

 music, although in 2007, they released an album as a collaboration with diverse vocalist Jarboe

Jarboe

Jarboe is an American singer, songwriter, and keyboardist.Jarboe is a solo artist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with the New York City based group Swans. With founder Michael Gira, the duo was the core of Swans until the group broke up in 1998...

 (Swans

Swans (band)

Swans are an influential American post-punk band initially active from 1982 to 1997, led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. The band was one of the few groups to emerge from the early 1980s New York No Wave scene and stay intact into the next decade. Formed by Gira in...

). They also recorded an instrumental remix

Remix

A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....

 track—over 18 minutes in length—based on source material composed by isolationist

Isolationism (music)

Isolationism is term coined by British musician Kevin Martin, used to describe a darker breed of ambient music that came to prominence in the mid-1990s...

 musician Fear Falls Burning, which was released on a 5-disc LP album

LP album

The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

 along with other remixes by artists such as Bass Communion

Bass Communion

Bass Communion is a side project of Steven Wilson, best known for his lead role in the rock band Porcupine Tree. Records released under the name "Bass Communion" are in an ambient or electronic vein - lengthy drone-heavy compositions...

 and Final

Final (band)

Final is a project of Justin Broadrick, creator of the band Godflesh, which he started when he was just 13 years old. Unlike Godflesh, Final is primarily electronic in nature, taking on a space-like, dark ambient sound....

.

Studio albums

• Byla (2005)
• Viscera (2007) (collaboration with Jarboe)

External links

• Official MySpace page
• Byla at the Encyclopaedia Metallum.