Rayzd

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Rayzd
Rayzd's 2nd album
Background information
Origin	Bellerose, New York
Genre(s)	Pop Jazz Hip Hop
Years active	2002 – present
Label(s)	Soul Kid Records
Website	SoundClick Profile
Members
Joey Cavaseno Jacqueline Peter Hartmann Joe Rybczyk Marlon Sobol "Archangel Metatron"

Rayzd is a 6 person pop / jazz / hip hop band from Bellerose, New York formed by Joey Cavaseno. Formerly called G-Clef and da Houndz, Rayzd is a blended jazz-oriented phoenix that rose from the ashes of the Swing Revival of the turn of the millennium. It's produced by the independent label Yalloppin Records.

Rayzd was formed in 2002 from the group G-Clef and da Houndz by leader "G-Clef", aka Joey Cavaseno, Amadeus Melchizedek, or Joe Aton. The band began their new experiment doing sporadic college shows (at Rutgers, Bowdoin, Bates, Amherst, etc.) while working on exactly what kind of musical statement would be made as they departed from their "modern swing" roots. Their first album, Fear is the Mind Killer, was released in 2003; the name of the album was a direct reference to author Frank Herbert's Sci-Fi classic Dune. Their second album, released in 2004, was entitled Just Fade Away: Music of Cowboy Bebop and Other sounds for the Otaku and was considered one of the first serious interpretations of otaku culture's best music, most notably Japanese composer Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop/Escaflowne), as well as others.