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Kim McCoy and Leonardo Fante comprise Evolva. McCoy is a former skater and graffiti writer who sprayed the factory walls of Airport West for many years with his trademark tag, Radical K, before getting nailed one night out by the train tracks. He was placed on a good behavior bond and ordered to remove the graffiti he was caught doing. Nonetheless, dozens of his tags still adorn the factory zone in streets situated due west of the old airport today. Radical. Kid honed his guitar playing during his teenage years, harnessing the wisdom, to borrow a line from Ecclesiastes, that “whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.” But the vicissitudes of life—the graffiti bust, several failed relationships, a series of dead end jobs during and out of university—tempered the directionless rage of Kid’s youth, forged it on an anvil of suburban experience and gave his playing a subtlety—in motion like water, at rest like a mirror—that we would call Art. Kid McCoy also now saw in