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Monday, December 27, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Crystalized Movements - This Wideness Comes
Crystalized Movements were a psychedelic rock/punk/folk band who recorded and performed sporatically from 1980-1993. The band was formed by Wayne Rogers and Ed Boyden in Tolland, CT when they were high school freshmen.Rogers and Boyden were brought together by a love of late 70's No Wave music and 60's psychedelia. After years of improvisational experimentation, they decided to make an LP in 1983 and recorded duo versions of some of Wayne's songs. They then split up upon graduating high school. Rogers, a longtime fan of the Plastic Cloud and Randy Holden, spent a summer piling on mountains of guitar overdubs. The resulting 'basement prog' album 'Mind Disaster' was released at the end of that year in an edition of 130 (on Rogers' own record label, as Twisted Village #1001). After being discovered by record collectors, the album was reissued on Psycho in the UK in 1984. It was received by the 'paisley revival' community with horror and quickly went out of print.
Rogers put a full band together in 1985 before recording the next album: 'Dog. Tree. Satellite Seers...', a scathing rebuke to faux-lysergic posers. The addition of second guitarist Eric Arn encouraged Rogers to focus on song structure: the two engage in guitar duels over chord progressions that press forward relentlessly. Guitarist Kate Biggar joined in 1988 upon Arn's departure (to southern Califirnia where he formed Primordial Undermind), cementing the band's final lineup on the next album 'This Wideness Comes'. Here, guitar experiments like "Third Half" appear next to tightly arranged tracks like the forbidding "The Second a Siren". Rogers' vocals impart a sense of anxiety that cements the mood. The album 'Revelations From Pandemonium' proved to be Crystalized Movements' finale, as well as the group's most successful intermingling of druggy rapture and postmodern sonic experimentation. The album established the Rogers/Biggar guitar tandem as a force to be reckoned with. Following the demise of the Movements, the Rogers/Biggar duo have continued on in critically acclaimed groups such as Magic Hour (with Damon and Naomi of Galaxie 500) and the Major Stars.
Linky
Friday, December 24, 2010
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Saturday, December 18, 2010
Laundryscope! - Live At The Room
Here we got some psychedelic improv from these Houston freaks ive seen them a few times and their shows are a drunken mess of weird sounds and drones check them out if you like improv psychedelic space noise!!
For open minded listeners!!
Lsd
Thursday, December 16, 2010
John Foxx - Metamatic (1980)
Metamatic is an album by John Foxx, released in 1980. It was his first solo album following his split with Ultravox the previous year. A departure from the richly-textured mix of synthesizers and conventional instruments on Systems of Romance, his last album with the band, Metamatic's hard-edged electronica was more akin to Kraftwerk's The Man-Machine (1978), Gary Numan's The Pleasure Principle (1979), and early Human League. Highly Recommended!
Im Right Here!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Black Tambourine - The Complete Recordings (1989-1991)
Well im back so lets get this show going here we got some awesome shoegaze pop from the late 80s early 90s im digging this album and so should you check er people!!
Linky
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
The New Creation - Troubled (1970)
"The New Creation was born in 1970 when Chris Towers, an unknown guitarist from Vancouver, decided to form a Christian rock group with Lorna Towers as lead singer and Janet Tiessen on drums. Scared by reports of the hippie excesses of the Manson/Altamont era, Lorna Towers wrote doom-laden, apocalyptic lyrics for the New Creation's aptly titled album, Troubled. The band was unpolished, yet somehow captured a unique lo-fi sound comparable to a hybrid of the Velvet Underground and the Shaggs." (Female Vocals)Link
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Discolor - Soundbath Installation (1999)
Gentle, relaxed, floating inner space music for your mind on the excellent 2nd album of Stefan Lienemann's (ex-Shiny Gnomes, Fit + Limo) sideproject. Layers of guitar augmented by beautiful string sounds, an 11 min. spacelounge jam by the classic Shiny Gnomes crew, a secret hommage to Can, pastoral ambient atmospheres reminiscent of Amp/FSA. This soundbath will shift and drift peacefully into the new century. Link
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