Yo La Tengo

Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band based in Hoboken, New Jersey. With more than 15 albums released since 1984, they have demonstrated unusual longevity for the indie-rock scene. They are frequently regarded as one of the definitive indie rock groups of the 1990s. Though Yo La Tengo has achieved limited mainstream success, the band has become a critical favorite with a devoted fan base.

The band's name comes from a baseball anecdote.

During the 1962 season, New York Mets center fielder Richie Ashburn and Venezuelan shortstop Elio Chacón found themselves colliding in the outfield. When Ashburn went for a catch, he would scream, "I got it! I got it!" only to run into the 160-pound Chacón, who spoke only Spanish.

Ashburn learned to yell, "¡Yo la tengo! ¡Yo la tengo!" which is "I have it" in Spanish. In a later game, Ashburn happily saw Chacón backing off. He relaxed, positioned himself to catch the ball, and was instead run over by 200-pound (90.7 kilograms) left fielder Frank Thomas, who understood no Spanish and had missed a team meeting that proposed using the words "¡Yo la tengo! as a way to avoid outfield collisions.

After getting up, Thomas asked Ashburn, "What the heck is a Yellow Tango?".

The band wanted a name that sounded foreign in order to avoid any connotations in English. Kaplan is also a devoted baseball fan. However, it still irks the band when they are asked the origin of the name. The band once performed a cover of the Mets theme song "Meet the Mets" during a benefit appearance on radio station WFMU's pledge drive. A track on I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass is called "The Story of Yo La Tango" in apparent reference to an all-too-frequent misspelling of the band's name.

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Album Dicography :

01 - Ride the Tiger [1986]
02 - President Yo La Tengo_New Wave Hot Dogs [1987_1989]
03 - Fakebook [1990]
04 - May I Sing With Me [1992] (part1/part2)
05 - Painful [1993]
06 - Electr-o-Pura [1995]
07 - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One [1997]
08 - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out [2000] (part1/part2)
09 - The Sounds of the Sounds of Science [2002] (part1/part2)
10 - Summer Sun [2003]
11 - Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics [2006] (part1/part2)
12 - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass [2006]
13 - They Shoot, We Score [2008] (part1/part2)

EPs :

01 - Here Comes My Baby [1990]
02 - That Is Yo La Tengo [1991]
03 - Upside-Down [1992]
04 - Camp Yo La Tengo [1995]
05 - Little Honda [1997]
06 - Some Other Dimensions in Yo La Tengo [2000]
07 - Danelectro [2000]
08 - Merry Christmas From Yo La Tengo [2002]
09 - Nuclear War [2002]
10 - Today Is the Day! [2003]
11 - Live Session EP [2007]

Splits / Collaboration :

01 - 1995 - Stereolab & Yo La Tengo - Genius + Love Split
02 - 1998 - Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo - Strange But True
03 - 2004 - Chris Stamey & Yo La Tengo - V.O.T.E.

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I Feel Like Going Home

Dreamend - The Long Forgotten Friend [2008]

Dreamend is the main musical output of Ryan Graveface, Graveface Records' owner/sole employee and part time guitarist for psychedelic oddballs Black Moth Super Rainbow. Since its’ inception in 2002, Graveface has released albums by Monster Movie (ex-Slowdive), The Loose Salute (Mojave 3 side project), Kid Dakota, Appleseed Cast, Art in Manila (ex-Azure Ray), Octopus Project, BMSR and many more.

The Long Forgotten Friend's 14 songs (10 songs on the cd version) are loosely based on stories and memories of a relative from the far past, whose tragic life has metamorphosed into legend over the course of time. This is music to listen to while driving through abandoned cities and ghost towns, imagining their disintegration. Rather than drums making the melody as on their previous efforts, banjo and vocals are at the foreground of the landscape. The drumming is minimalist, almost spastic and, as always, the guitars are the ghosts. Dreamend has taken a darker, folky, more nightmarish road than before. Some evidence of this can be found on the tracks Your Kiss, Scratch and Deathwatch Carnival 1965. Conversely, they have found themselves with more poppy, almost sing-alongs than ever before (see Are you Waking and The Tulip Staircase).

Appearances by Toto of the Octopus Project and Darren Jackson of Kid Dakota add some outside sounds, while Darren and John Congleton's (see Explosion in the Sky, Modest Mouse, etc) mixing bring them all together.

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The Long Forgotten Friend [2008]

"Cant Take You {Dif}" live - SXSW 2007

Rachel Goswell

Rachel Goswell (born May 16, 1971 in Fareham, England) is a singer-songwriter who was a vocalist with shoegazing pioneers Slowdive. Following Slowdive's dissolution, Goswell joined Slowdive alumni Neil Halstead and Ian McCutcheon to form Mojave 3, an indie pop/dream pop outfit. This new band also included Simon Rowe (of Chapterhouse fame) and Alan Forrester.

The year 2004 saw Goswell release solo recordings with co-writer Joe Light and producer David Naughton. Nine months after Mojave 3 released Spoon and Rafter, she released The Sleep Shelter EP. Waves Are Universal, her first full-length recording, appeared a month later. In 2005, a limited edition remix 12" (now available as a download) entitled Coastline / Plucked was issued. This recording, released on Valentine's Day, features two mixes apiece from The Earlies and Ulrich Schnauss.

Goswell was married to Cuba's Christopher Andrews from 1994 until 2000.

While on tour with Slowdive in 1993, one of her eardrums burst, and it has troubled her ever since, in the form of persistent infections, partial deafness (which she employs a hearing aid to correct) and ataxia. This has prevented her from performing on occasion, and she was absent from the last Mojave 3 album, 2006's 'Puzzles Like You'.

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Waves Are Universal [2004]

EP 02 - Coastline Plucked [2005]

EP 01 - The Sleep Shelter [2004]

Mojave 3 - Some Kinda Angel

Windy & Carl - Songs For The Broken Hearted [2008]

songs for the broken hearted

Cover Imagethis is an album about love. everyone has known love, and everyone has known loss. love is not just about warm fuzzy feelings, although that would be the part people say they like the best. and in any span of time, love changes and means different things to different people.

i never thought this would be an album. we started these recordings the same weekend i started I Hate People. it was a dark time, and when the tapes were taken off the reels i really thought that was the end of them. they were just going to sit and rot away somewhere.

but between christmas and new year of 2007, carl pulled them out and decided to finish them. he became obsessed with them somehow, i suppose in much the same way i had become obbsessed with finishing my own album earlier in the year. he worked every night for weeks, and as i wandered around the house i heard those songs everytime they played. and some of them made me cry, everytime. they sounded sad to me, because they were started in such a sad time. carl kept talking about wanting to have a new record out for 2008, and i told him only if it was named Songs For The Broken Hearted. he said fine, he just wanted it done.

so in early 2008 he gave me a cdr with what he felt were finished tracks, and asked me to write words for them. i had no ideas, i just kept crying when they were on. it really did not seem important to me to get them done because they only reminded me of things..........and then, one night, i started writing. i wrote words for 4 or 5 songs that night, and started singing the next evening. and we did rough mixes that i listened to for a week or so, and then i pulled out my journals, the gang of them that i had been filling since the fall of 2007, and i picked a few pieces that seemed like they would go with the music. i rerecorded some of the tracks with the new words, and resang some vocals i thought could be better. and the songs went from being all sad to being a reflection of how love works. how we are affected - by ourselves and others. how love makes you swoon and lonliness makes you cry. how when you love someone in this world you love them no matter where they are, and the connections you feel to and with them. love can make you blind, both when things are good and when they are not, and how do you react to being blind? what choices do you make and how do they change the world around you............

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Songs For The Broken Hearted [2008]

Undercurrent

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Bavarian Fruit Bread [2001]

Que la sangre purpura se derrame sobre la ciudad, es hora de caminar junto a los sentidos y luego:

Pasajes submarinos interactuando con la realidad de los vientos en la tormenta, sombrio sombrero de nubes que acompañan su voz triste, dilatandose sobre los campos verdes, el cuerpo caen sobre la tremenda sensación de libertad que lo acompaña en todo el recorrido, duración de este disco, hasta llegar a la cima nevada sobre la pura y basta planicie del cielo, acercate al vuelo, sigue comfrontando esperiencias gratas y camufla de plumas tu cuerpo, la conciencia se pasa al lado del cosmos como una inmensa tela del la cual solo un pequeño lugar a usted le pertenece, disfrutela.

Hope Sandoval (born 1966) is an American singer-songwriter who was lead singer for Mazzy Star and later Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions.

Hope formed The Warm Inventions and released their first (and thus far only album) called “Bavarian Fruit Bread”, in 2001. This album sounds, again, little different in terms of theme, voice, and instrumentation than that of her work with Mazzy Star. However, with a larger band behind her, and more time under her creative belt, Hope’s voice has matured on these songs.

Subsequently, The Warm Inventions released three EP’s but received very little commercial success, no video on MTV, and very little radio play. Nonetheless, the band’s efforts were appreciated by her solid fan base.

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Bavarian Fruit Bread [2001] (part1/part2)

Suzanne

Suki Ewers - Kind of Hazy [2008]

Suki Ewers has spent her career perfecting a glorious, countrified strand of dream-pop as part of bands Mazzy Star, Opal and Anemone, and this new Kramer-produced solo outing is comparable with the slowcore loveliness of Low, the stargazing Nashville sounds of Cortney Tidwell, and most obviously, the opiated balladry of former bandmate Hope Sandoval, particularly on the brilliant opener 'Time After Time'. The songwriting and production are in perfect harmony, sounding like a pedal steel-toting Velvet Underground on 'All Day Long', whilst spouting blasts of echoing guitar distortion and searing synthesizer on 'This Must Be Heaven'. Sidestepping the dream-pop pitfalls, Ewers never hides her songs - or for that matter her vocals - behind the array of studio techniques and effects that help shape this album, and Kind Of Hazy resounds far more clearly than its title might have you believe.

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Kind of Hazy [2008]

"Know What You're Saying" Suki Ewers

Mojave 3

Mojave 3 are a British band, consisting of Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell, Simon Rowe, Alan Forrester, and Ian McCutcheon. Goswell, Halstead and McCutcheon previously played in Thames Valley shoegazer band Slowdive.

The band initially existed as a trio consisting of Halstead, Goswell, and McCutcheon. After Slowdive were dropped by Creation Records, the trio decided to change musical direction to a dream pop/country rock or folk music style, and were signed by 4AD Records. They took on the new name "Mojave", but upon the discovery of another band already using the name, the "3" was added due to the group's three members. Rowe (formerly of Chapterhouse) and Forrester joined shortly after the release of their first album.

Both Halstead (the main songwriter for the band) and Goswell have released solo albums, also for 4AD. McCutcheon founded and is currently playing with his band called The Loose SaluteHeavenly Records. who are signed to Heavenly Records.

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Album Discography :

1. Ask me tomorrow [1995]
2. Out of Tune [1998]
3. Excuses for travellers [2000]
4. Spoon and Rafter [2003]
5. Puzzles Like You [2006]

Eps :

1. Who Do You Love Ep [1998]
2. Some Kinda Angel Ep [1998]
3. In Love With a View Ep [2000]
4. Any Day Will Be Fine Ep [2000]
5. Return to sender Ep [2000]
6. Bluebird of Happiness Ep [2003]
7. Breaking the Ice Ep [2006]

Mojave 3 - Love Songs On The Radio

S p i r i t u a l i z e d

Following a major breakdown in relations between Spacemen 3 co-frontmen Peter Kember and Jason Pierce, the group's bassist Will Carruthers, drummer Jonny Mattock, and guitarist Mark Refoy decided to form a splinter group, before persuading Pierce to join alongside local friend Steve Evans to create Spiritualized. The band took their name from an adaptation of the text on the back label of a bottle of Pernod. Due to formation from a majority of Spacemen 3 members, a technical clause meant that Spiritualized had to maintain the Spacemen 3 recording contract with Dedicated Records.

The first Spiritualized release, in 1990, was a cover of The Troggs' "Anyway That You Want Me"; the record heralded the official split of Spacemen 3 following contractual wrangles over the band's name and its use in Spiritualized-related promotional material (initial copies of "Anyway That You Want Me" came with a Spacemen 3 logo on the sleeve).

Evans was replaced on keyboards by Pierce's then-girlfriend Kate Radley for the follow-up single, "Run"/"I Want You". A number of singles followed, before the band, in early 1992, released their first LP Lazer Guided Melodies, which had been recorded in Rugby over the previous two years. A second album, Pure Phase, was released in 1995, and a third Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space emerged in 1997 to notable critical acclaim and commercial success.

The musical style of Spiritualized relies heavily on sustained 'pedal' notes and drones. Lazer Guided Melodies and Pure Phase incorporate elements of the shoegazing style, drones and tremolo. The landmark Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space saw the influence of African-American gospel and blues beginning to show, while "walls of sound" modelled after the production styles of Phil Spector and Brian Wilson also made their presence felt. Such influences dominated Spiritualized's next album, Let It Come Down which included over 120 musicians. Amazing Grace favoured a more stripped down sound with the gospel, blues, and soul influences even more dominant than before.

After several years of work and a serious illness on Pierce's part in July 2005, the latest Spiritualized album, Songs in A&E was released on May 26, 2008 in the UK, and on May 27, 2008 in the US. The first single from the 18-track album was "Soul On Fire". The release was backed by an Electric Mainlines UK tour which began in May.Pierce has also scored Harmony Korine's 2008 film Mister Lonely.

Pierce is quoted as saying in a 2008 interview that Spiritualized was scheduled to play the CERN collider. "They asked us to do it! We were gonna play in it before they’d thrown the switch. But it was a timing thing—their timings didn’t coincide with ours."

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Discography:

01 - Lazer Guided Melodies [1992]
02 - Fucked Up Inside [1993]
03 - Pure Phase [1995] (part1/part2)
04 - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space [1997]
05 - Live From Royal Albert Hall [1998] (part1/part2)
06 - Let It Come Down [2001]
07 - Amazing Grace [2003]
08 - Songs in A&E [2008]

Compilation:

09 - The Complete Works Vol. I - II [2003 / 2004]
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Cyann & Ben - Spring / Happy Like An Autum Tree / Sweet Beliefs [2003 / 2004 / 2006]

..> CYANN & BEN release their first album for Ever Records on September 11th. SWEET BELIEFS is an epic and yet intimate album that gives the space rock template a Gallic makeover by adding a much needed romantic grandeur. CYANN & BENs Paris is not the one you see in Amelie its dirty, dark and stressful as much as beautiful and SWEET BELIEFS, with its multi-layered and ambitious sweep, sounds as unsettling as it is irresistible. "a slow motion hurricane ripping apart your temporal lobe" Magnet /// "...a rare strain of "epic" music, where bravado does not exceed the composition, but remains at all times within it. Cyann & Ben are masters of this subtlety." Pitchfork /// "Chaude et froide a la fois, [la musique de Cyann et Ben] est sublime parce que fiévreuse, effrayante parce que toujours sur la sellette, lumineuse et sombre, tendue et limpide ... " Les Inrockuptibles /// "...toujours intelligente mais pas hautaine, évidente et unique en même temps. " Rock Sound /// "douce rêverie éveillée, cotonneuse et poignante. " Magic /// "un ailleurs elegiaque et mysterieux" Teknikart ///

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Sweet Beliefs (2006) (part1/part2)

Happy Like An Autum Tree (2004)

Spring (2003)

Cyann & Ben - Sparks of Love

Beach House

Baltimore is as musically diverse as anywhere else, but in 2008, indie rockers associate the city with colorful, energetic music, from the expatriated Animal Collective to Dan Deacon's Wham City crew. The music of Beach House, the Baltimore-based duo of multi-instrumentalist Alex Scally and vocalist/organist Victoria Legrand, is a shadow narrative running parallel to this trend: Their delicate, lovelorn pop comes in the form of deathly waltzes and dark pastoral dirges on which Legrand sings about desire, loss, and dreams as if telling a ghost story, splitting the difference between lovely and creepy.

For pristine pop, Beach House's self-titled 2006 debut was awfully raw: Legrand downplayed her classical piano and voice training in a humble negation of virtuosity. The organs sounded like something thick and coarse being pulled through a small, jagged opening; chord structures were simply suggestions; imperfections were kept intact. That balance of beauty and imprecision made inspired songs like "Saltwater", "Tokyo Witch", "Apple Orchard", and "Master of None" easy to fall in love with.

The duo's songwriting hasn't fundamentally changed on Devotion; they've simply cleaned up their act. These are crisper, brighter, bolder songs, retaining Beach House's sense of elegant decay while sweeping up the debris. "Gila" is a funeral on a sunny day; its shimmering organs are controlled, never bleeding chaotically as they did on the debut, and are complemented by frilly but steadfast guitar. "Turtle Island" reaffirms Beach House's preference for simple, skeletal percussion, but its dense melody is a marked advancement. The result of this pre-spring cleaning is that Devotion lacks some of the immediate highs of the first album-- you no longer get the sense of rooting for an embattled underdog-- but winds up consistently stronger.

Even though it's tidier and more streamlined, the music surrenders none of its autumnal charm, and there's still a sense of eavesdropping on a private, ongoing dialogue between Legrand and a ghost. Of course, we only get to hear her side of the story. As on the first album, which began with the words "Love you all the time, even though you're not mine," she favors second-person assertions that speak of self-effacement, dependence, and sinister dream-world conversations. "Your wish is my command," she intones on "Wedding Bell", becoming a genie in a puff of smoke. And on "Gila", she sings in a world-weary wheeze, "Man, you've got a lot of jokes to tell." But instead of the punch line, we get the sort of jarring shift that characterizes dreams: "So you throw your baby's banners down the well."

"Invite your sister into the garden," she drones on the wind-up waltz "You Came to Me", concurrently inviting us into the murky depths of her romantic consciousness. There's a sense of latent danger in the invitation, like a siren song luring us toward sharp clusters of rock. Portals into mysterious spaces pockmark Devotion; none of them promise a way out. Perhaps this explains why an album that takes its title and concept from a superficially sweet concept has such a subtle bite: Legrand's devotion is a dungeon into which she tosses her own desires like coins into a wishing well, a one-way conduit from which only echoes return.

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* Beach House [2006]
* Devotion [2008]


Apple Orchard (Slowdown - Omaha - 3/24/08)

Pram - Prisoner of the 7 Pines Ep (2008)

En un simple flotar de hojas, vuelve todo a la fase inicial sobre las teorías de dilatación corporal en un espacio onírico, que habla de trayectos infinitos, posterior a la muerte, los rayos de luz queman la superficie y florecen de celeste, quien sostiene el mundo se inclina para observar la verdad, esa que no se puede escribir más.
El ep Prisioner of seven Pines es un fresco capítulo por venir, es la mirada casual del viento que toca a la puerta fuertemente en busca de contemplación.

• Pram Myspace
• Wikipedia
• Tour Video
• Official Site
• Interview
• YouTube footage
• Domino Record

Prisoner of the 7 Pines Ep (2008)


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Pram - Beluga

Arthur Russell

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The World of Arthur Russell [2003]
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World of Echo [1986]
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You Can Make Me Feel Bad

Swirlies - Strictly East Coast Sneaky Flute Music [1998]

Strictly East Coast Sneaky Flute Music [1998]




The Swirlies - Tall Ships

Congelador

La música que flota alrededor de la orbita sonora Congelador, se transmite con gran fluidez en la inmensidad del cuerpo, hombre contemplativo, pensar dentro de una nave espacial, tan lejos de la vegetación, quiebras cemento!, quema su cabeza!, el impulso de gestación repentino se impregna en la armonía, de bases Post-Rock, Lo-Fi, Shoegaze, Dream Pop, Experimental.
A mayor distancia, el aire helado apuñala el corazón de ave libre en el cielo, humo negro, tóxico!!!.
Ahora, la amable caricia en cada arpegio juguetón, que se mueve en una nota pequeña, aguda, pero material uterino.

The music that floats about the sonorous orbit Freezer, is transmitted by great fluency in the immensity of the body, contemplative man, to think inside a spaceship, so far away of the vegetation, bankruptcies I cement!, burn his your head!, the sudden impulse of begin impregnates in the harmony, of bases Post-rock, Lo-Fi, Shoegaze, Dream Pop, Experimentally. To major distance, the frozen air stabs the heart of free bird in the sky, black, toxic smoke!!!.
Now, the nice caress in every playful arpeggio, which moves in a small, sharp note, but uterine material.

Congelador.cl
MySpace.com - Congelador

Cuatro [2002] (Rs)







Iceberg [2000] (Rs)







Perdidos en el espacio [1999] (So)







Despertar [1999] (So)







Congelador [1998] (So)







Pulsos Ep [1998] (So)







Congelador. Caminar


Congelador. Átomo

Fying Saucer Attack

It is a band of quality, creative of impeccable atmospheres that cross the noise of the pollution, and they go to great speed in his flying saucers, towards and cardinal downtown in they are of initiating the assault with his sonic immense pieces that flood the sky, floating in the dream the black hands of the woman shining, a waterfall of paces that are not listened ahead, the spot opens orifices to compensate the humility of a new star to which copy his functioning gives another respite and a bit more of time to the planet.

The band I form in Bristol, England in the year 1993, his founders are David Pearce and Rachel Brook who with his compositions of guitar and voice saturated create a soft and constant avant-noise of mystical sensations.

Es una banda de calidad, creadora de atmosferas impecables que atraviesan el ruido de la contaminación, y se dirigen a gran velocidad en sus platillos voladores, hacia e centro de la ciudad capital en son de iniciar el ataque con sus piezas sonicas inmensas que inundan el cielo, levitan en el sueño las plomas manos de la mujer resplandeciendo, una cascada de ritmos que no se escuchan delante, la mancha abre orificios para compensar la humildad de una nueva estrella a la cual calcar su funcionamiento da otro respiro y un poco más de tiempo al planeta.
La banda se formo en Bristol, Inglaterra en el año 1993, sus fundadores son David Pearce and Rachel Brook quienes con sus composiciones de guitarra y voz saturadas crean un avant-noise suave y constante de sensaciones misticas.

MySpace.com - Flying Saucer Attack

P.A. Blues [2003]

Mirror [1999]

New Lands [1997]

Coming Home / Hope [1997]

Flying Saucer Attack / Tele:funken "Distant Station" [1996]

Sally Free and Easy [1996]

In Search of Spaces [1996]

Chorus [1996]

Beach Red Lullaby / Second Hour [1995]

Further [1995]

Outdoor Miner / Psychic Driving [1995]

Distance [1994]

Land Beyond the Sun / Everywhere Was Everything [1994]

Rural Psychedelia [1994]

Crystal Shade / Distance [1994]

Soaring High [1993]

Wish / Oceans [1993]

About this Video :

Let's Pretend To Be Human Beings

A video completed for a 2006 college art class final, which was to be a self-portrait. A silhouette of myself keying a mystic fire in a hypnotizing loop while the title track plays in the background. At the time (Thanksgiving 2002) I was heavily influenced by Flying Saucer Attack so this music, improvized on a Four Track in one day, has some shoegazer aspirations.

The full-length version is 15 minutes but due to Youtube's time limitations I can only present the final 10 minutes.