Kyle Gryphon: Doe Hills
According to his bio, Newfoundland’s Kyle Gryphon is making music off the grid, in the middle of the woods on the Southern Shore. He may be living a life of Isolation but he’s making music that’s accessible and destined to continue drawing crowds.
Doe Hills, the lead single from Gryphon’s second album Desolation is an acoustic folk track that takes its name from piece of landscape most Newfoundlanders probably know well — the Trans-Canada Highway passes right through it. For all that, it’s a place of mystery and timelessness.
Doe Hills is on the Avalon isthmus and is often covered in fog. You frequently can’t see it properly. When you can, you’ll notice it’s otherworldly. The area is an open expanse, strewn with boulders dropped by glaciers as they scraped by. The Canadian Forestry Service once described it, rather poetically, as ‘an arctic moonscape of lichen multicoloured rocks shattered by frost’.
With that in mind, check out the song. Doe Hills (and the whole Desolation album) on Kyle Gryphon’s Bandcamp Page.
You won’t be sorry you did.
