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Artist:
YAWNING MAN
Title:
Vista Point
Label:
LEXICON DEVIL (AUSTRALIA)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
LEXDEV 020CD
Yawning Man
's
Vista Point
CD groups together their two (now deleted) releases,
Rock Formations
(Cobraside, 2005) and the
Pot Head
EP (Cobraside, 2005). Yawning Man have been around as an on- and off-again project for guitarist
Gary Arce
(
Ten East
,
Sort Of Quartet
,
Fatso Jetson
) and drummer
Alfredo Hernandez
(
Kyuss
,
Queens of the Stone Age
) for over 20 years, and stand as a defining influence on the so-called "desert-rock" scene. Yawning Man, however, are quite a different musical beast from those they inspired. Drawing heavily from the SST roster --
Black Flag
,
Minutemen
,
Meat Puppets
-- their music is caught in the nexus of surf, psychedelia, Krautrock and the Spaghetti Western soundscapes of
Ennio Morricone
. Or, if you will, a missing link between the worlds of
Dick Dale
,
Syd
's '
Floyd
, and
Pell Mell
. On these recordings, Yawning Man also features the bass duties of
Mario Lalli
and
Billy Cordell
. The sheer lyricism of the playing demonstrates their total lack of need for a vocalist. Closely aligned to both the stoner-rock scene which adores them (despite their total lack of
Sabbath
-like riffery), and the SST family of artists to which they are linked. Championed by stoners and avant-rockers everywhere.
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