artist adam faux

Adam Faux was born in Toronto Canada to an eccentric designer and proto hippie sculptor. He spent years living in geodesic domes and 28 sided houses while hippies got their freak on. By the age of 16, Adam had left home and was living in the heart of Toronto’s art and music scene, on Queen west. His first mohican was administered by Pete Lawson and Handsome Ned, and his first real job was “kitchen slave” at Yofi’s restaurant on fabled Baldwin Street, a mecca for vegetarians and green haired punk rocks. While At Yofi’s, Adam met John DesLauriers of the “10 Commandments” and “l’etranger”, and hassled him until finally forming “Pigfarm” in the mid eighty’s. pigfarm's first full length held number one on the college charts for five months. There was in the mean time, a mushroom filled stay in Mexico hunting iguanas and fishing commercially near isla mujeures, and a residency at Paris north station in France, as well as “street level existence” in 9 other countries in europe, ending in England, where he recovered from a Grecian motorcycle accident. Pigfarms second full length "PLug" published by peermusic worldwide reached number one on many radio stations and held top twenty for 3 months. Adam Faux's "My Two Hands" Charted 34 on U.S. college radio. He's Produced 2 top 40 hits for "mike lynch" and lauded albums for kyp harness. He Recorded/ mixed The gemini award winning “The Film Club”.

Adam recently recorded all audio and mixed soundtrack elements , for The documentary film Mashala, about the band with the same name, In Barcelona, Spain.

Presently, Adam’s focus is with the Ep release of the group of disparate characters, "the Exploding Band"including, Jake chisholm (guitar), Curtis Faux (guitar), Jesse Capon (percussion,voice), Brandi Disterheft (bass), and Peter Fusco ( bass ).