Prhizzm is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 solo electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 artist based in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

. His father is Jon Dellandrea

Jon Dellandrea

Jon Samuel Dellandrea, CM is a Canadian educator and university administrator, and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford. In September 2010, Dellandrea was appointed Chancellor of Nipissing University.- Biography :Dellandrea was raised in Northern Ontario, Canada...

, an educator and recipient of the Order of Canada

Order of Canada

The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...

.

Biography

Dellandrea has been involved in the creation of electronic music since 2001. However, he has played the piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

 since the age of 13 and the violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

 since age 4. His first foray into published electronic music was the self-released Small Comfort EP in 2003. Next came the mp3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

-release Fragment Synthesis at Hippocamp.net. That release was removed from the site due to label interest and is no longer available, although four of the five tracks in this release have re-appeared on subsequent CD releases. Dellandrea’s big break finally came when he was signed to Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

’s Benbecula Records

Benbecula Records

Benbecula Records was a Scottish independent record label.Established in 1999 in Edinburgh, Scotland, by local musicians Phase 6 and Beluga, Benbecula Records began as a CD-R-based record label before moving towards large-run commercial vinyl record and CD releases in 2000.The label closed on...

 and released a self-titled EP in March of 2005. The Prhizzm EP was followed a year later by a full-length CD-R release within Benbecula's Mineral Series featuring "oddities and new tracks". http://www.benbecula.com/release/various/minerals_series.shtml The Prhizzm website described the release as a collection of "early ambient tracks, EP b-sides, vocal tracks, and a sneak peak of the forthcoming prhizzm album". http://www.prhizzm.com/content/if-news6.htm

In January 2007, Dellandrea accompanied local friend and musician Minisystem

Minisystem

Minisystem is a Canadian solo electronic musician and molecular biologist based in Toronto. His music is produced almost entirely with analog synthesizers and drum machines. His debut album, Madingley, was released in 2006 on Toronto's Noise Factory Records. Minisystem is often defined in contrast...

 on keyboards for his debut record release party performance.http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/174093

Influences

Early musical influences mentioned by Dellandrea are Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd

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, Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...

, the Beach Boys, and The Cars

The Cars

The Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. The band consisted of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson...

. While the electronica influences on his work are likely to be wide and varied, those which can clearly be heard reflected in Dellandrea's music include Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin...

 and fellow Benbecula labelmate, Christ.

Christ.

Christopher Horne , known on-stage as Christ., is a Scottish musician. He disclaims any religious meaning in the stage name; he describes it as short for his full name, and the full stop or period as indicating that status as an abbreviation.Christ...

Singles and EPs

• Prhizzm EP – 2005, Benbecula Records
• Fragment Synthesis – 2004, Hippocamp.net
• Small Comfort EP – 2003, self-released

Contributions

• "Qualm" on Music Volume Four, Benbecula Records, 2007
• “Ordeal by Ice” on -40 (NFB Remixes), C0C0S0L1DC1T1, 2005
• “New Teeth” on Intricate Maximals, Audiobulb Records
  Audiobulb Records
  Audiobulb Records is a Sheffield based independent record label holding a global artist roster – brought together under the banner of ‘exploratory electronic music’. The label was founded in 2003 by David Newman with the aim of promoting a new generation of innovative electronic artists...
  
  , 2005
• “We are Intimate Strangers” on PlayBack (Salle de Jour Remixes), Hippocamp.net, 2004
• “Half Asleep” on Switches, Audiobulb Records, 2004
• “Aquatic Variant” on Exhibition #1, Audiobulb Records, 2003

Remixes

• “Happyfour Twenty (prhizzm remix)” on Christ.
  Christ.
  Christopher Horne , known on-stage as Christ., is a Scottish musician. He disclaims any religious meaning in the stage name; he describes it as short for his full name, and the full stop or period as indicating that status as an abbreviation.Christ...
  
  's Vernor Vinge, Benbecula Records, 2006

External links

• The official Prhizzm site
• Benbecula records
• Prhizzm discography at Discogs
  Discogs
  Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...