INSTRUMENTS: A Personal and Professional History “I think it would be accurate to say our music is not for everyone.” (J. LaPointe, 2004) With an approach that is as much informed by the slow pace of their forested home base among the abandoned gold hills of Mineville, Nova Scotia, as it is by the world’s march toward technological doom, INSTRUMENTS’ music rewards the patient listener. Details are unveiled in due time - a single chord change over 4 minutes into a 5 minute song (Black Kite), a vocal suddenly emerging to twist an instrumental drone into a sing-song verse (Clock), or dynamic shifts so abrupt as to genuinely startle (Titled by Date). J. LaPointe, Jon Hutt, and Daniel MacDonald began playing together as early as 1991, formally establishing themselves as The MOTES (along with Craig Thibault) in 1994. Isolated in small town pre-internet Nova Scotia, the foursome released six albums of genuinely odd atonal rock that were, by all...