When a European record shop asked
Appleseed Cast to give an acoustic in-store performance, frontman Christopher Crisci wrote a series of new songs for the occasion. Such material formed the basis of
Old Canes, a lo-fi project spearheaded by Crisci and performed by a loose group of backing musicians. The band's debut album,
Early Morning Hymns, appeared in 2004, and Crisci issued two albums with
Appleseed Cast (2006's
Peregrine and 2009's
Sagarmatha) before putting the finishing touches on
Old Canes' second release,
Feral Harmonic. ~ Andrew Leahey