01 / BIO

Kyle Firlik was born and raised just outside Detroit, Michigan. He started playing saxophone in 1996 and guitar in 1999.

In 2003, while visiting Michigan State University, Sarah Badiee (a friend of Kyle's older sister from college) recorded The 339 Sessions, an EP for The Jents, Kyle's original project with longtime friend Tommy Kawel on bass and ukulele, out of 339 Spartan Avenue.

At Michigan State University he was guitarist and lead singer for the jam band influenced Black Jack Persia, alongside Jesse Broman, Matthew Naughton (a friend since second grade), and Rob Toth.

Kyle, Matt, and Jesse later joined forces with Sarah Badiee and Sarah Owens to form the electronic rock outfit Naiswan. Kyle met Sarah Owens while signing a contract with her organization, Pop Entertainment, to play a local band spotlight concert at the MSU Ballroom.

The band relocated to Los Angeles, where they released their debut EP, celebrating the release alongside Fat Lip of The Pharcyde.

Kyle and Sarah Owens later moved to Portland, Oregon, where they kept writing and playing, and met Chance Diaz, an exceptional drummer, musician, producer, and engineer who plays drums on "Not Going Easily," a track from the upcoming DUST & SPECKS EP.

Now married (Sarah Firlik), the two have moved back to the Midwest, to southwest Michigan, to grow their family. Still celebrating the love of music that brought them together in the first place.

night into day, day into night, break the cycles and swallow the light.

02 / MUSIC

Dust and Specks EP front cover artwork

the ep: coming soon

DUST & SPECKS

4 tracks · 12″ vinyl, 45 RPM

back catalog

03 / LYRICS

04 / PHOTOS

05 / STORE

DUST & SPECKS: coming soon

Vinyl is pressed to order in limited quantities. Shipping estimates are shown at checkout. Questions about an order? firlikkyle@gmail.com

?? / SECRET

You found it. Baby Kyle, several decades and at least one questionable haircut ago.

Baby photo of Kyle Firlik

we'll go in such a rush, we leave a mess.

?? / THE JENTS

The Jents performing live

??? / CHANNEL_04

You've found a free download of an unreleased song, "Seasons of Reasons."

?? / FIELD NOTES

LOG // FIELD NOTES
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08:14: device boots cold, hallway lighting throws off camera
parallax by a few degrees. same problem every site visit. nobody
notices but me.

11:40: client asks if the model can see through walls yet. explain,
again, that it can't, that the wall is still a wall. write it down
anyway. someone always asks.

14:02: conditional access token expires mid-demo. the room goes
quiet the way a room goes quiet when something almost worked.

19:50: drove home with the device still in the passenger seat like a
person. thought about frequency, about latency, about how long a
signal takes to become a habit.

// end of shift. dust settles the same everywhere.

A problem has been detected and this page has been shut down to prevent damage.

DUST_AND_SPECKS.SYS

Technical information: *** STOP: 0x0000004E (0x0000FEED, 0x0000C0DE, 0x00000005, 0xDEADDA7A) *** DUST_AND_SPECKS.SYS - Address FA1FA1FA base at 04051926, DateStamp 3a1a92c4

:: system logs available ::

Please download a copy of the log files to ensure you don't climb too many steps without necessity.

Download Logs

This one needs a keyboard, desktop only for now: left/right arrows to move, space to jump, down arrow to duck.

??? / VAULT III

You've found the third vault. Words are just words.

??? / CHANNEL_05

You've found a free download of an unreleased demo, "Just Action."

Trying to say the same thing. Trying to stay afloat. Isn't that true?

CLIMBING
THE STEPS

CALL ON
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It surely has a million eyes and heart and souls, thus thoughts arise uniquely to the sentient ones, some carry ______ and others ______