Barrier Reef

The Nicky Kay Orchestra (NKO) is the 2012 project from Dayton artist Nick Kizirnis. Nick has had a long & varied music career with past projects such as Nicky Kay and His Fabulous Kay-Tones, The Nick Kizirnis Band, The Mulchmen, The Obvious and as a member of Tobin Sprout's Eyes in Weasel. As with Nick's Mulchmen band, The Nicky Kay Orchestra is an instrumental group which offers a nice blend of surf, exotica and tiki music. The songs on NKO's first release, Barrier Reef, are a mixture of both older Mulchmen material fleshed out with a larger band and several new original tunes. NKO members include Kizirnis & Dennis Mullins on guitars, Brian Hogarth on bass, Ed Lacy and Tom Salvatierra playing keyboards, Elizabeth Landis on violin and former Guided By Voices and Breeders member Jim MacPherson on drums.