Graduated with honours from Mount Doug Senior High.
B.A. with distinction in Psychology and English Literature
(double major) from The University of Victoria with an 8.86/9
G.P.A.
When asked by his grandfather what he wanted to be when he grew up, at the age of 4 Kevin replied with boundless alacrity: "a star guitar player." As a teenager, he underwent private training in music theory and various styles of
guitar with Jean Guilbault, Pat Fabrick and Elliot Silverman and began composing and recording songs in his basement bedroom until meeting studio owner Greg Vaughan through a college friend.
Kevin recorded an independent six-song E.P. with Greg Vaughan, which
included "Fool's Paradise", "Girl Like You", "Daddy", "Crawling
After You", "Lost" (recorded with members of Dirtnap), and an early version "Psychopath Killer" (recorded by John Frisk), whose
lyrics later changed when it was re-recorded for The
Atman Project (1998).
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In 1996, Cryderman released his first full length CD called Nice
Guy, recorded at The Mine with Anand Greenwell and Graham
Coady. Although Cryderman has not released any 'official' CDs since then for public consumption, he has continued to write and record many songs. For instance, Kevin's second CD project was also recorded at The Mine with Coady
and Greenwell. The Atman Project (1998)
was a concept album (later abandoned) based on the writings of Ken Wilbur.
New songs were recorded at Zero Gravity Studios with Greenwell and
Coady ("Greed" and "The Future") and at Cascade Studios with Casey
Pechet ("Pedestal", "Nasty" and "Courting the Muse").
Including some
selections from the abandoned concept album that pointed towards the
process of artistic creation as a theme within metaphors of human
relationships ("Limbo", "Solitary Man", "Reconciliation Day", and
"Personification"), the CD eventually became Courting
the Muse (2001), which was relased only in a limited edition version. Cryderman is currently working on a
new revised and expanded (15 song) version of this album,
which will include such fan favorites as "The Waves", "Minimum
Wage," and "Nothing to You." The new version of Courting
the Muse should be available in 2006.
The underground indie label NICE GUY PRODUCTIONS, whose name apparently inspired Cryderman's infamous song "Nice Guy", is also
compiling a limited-release Five CD box set for Cryderman
completionists, which will include over 100 songs spanning his
prolific career thus far. Volumes one and two act as a kind of "best
of", while volume three is more obscure material. Volume four will
be newly recorded 'songs from the B file' (such as "Valentine" and
"Looking Glass Self") and some new versions of older songs. Volume
five will be comprised of early lo-fi basement recordings
previously unavailable on CD.
Early live performances, solo acoustic (and band), included:
Planet Harpo�s ; The Victoria Folkfest 1994-1997; The Drawing Room;
Felicita�s (UVIC); J Street Rocks Cafe; Cityfest 1994 (during the
Commonwealth Games); Dylan�s Roadhouse Pub Talent Search; Tally-Ho
Comedy Night; Wild Rover; Pluto�s Restaurant; Bisbee Coffee Co.; The
Fleet Club�s Comedy Night; Pagliacci�s Restaurant; Saratoga Resort
(Shuswap Lake); the Old Bailey Pub; and countless house parties. More recently, Cryderman has been performing at the Common Ground and Milestones in Rochester NY, where he currently resides as a PHD student in English and Film studies at the University of Rochester.
From 1996-9, Cryderman wrote for Offbeat magazine, a publication
of CFUV at UVIC, and volunteered for the music department of
CFUV. He also wrote an underground novel called Sex in the Stream of Consciousness (a.k.a.) Death of the Author.
Kevin Cryderman can be reached at:
Attn. Kevin Cryderman
c/o NICE GUY PRODUCTIONS
1625 San Juan Ave.
Victoria,
B.C.
Canada
V8N 2L7
