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Wayne Rogers (b. 1965) formed Crystalized Movements in September of 1979, Magic Hour in May of 1993, and Major Stars in January of 1996. He's also recorded eight solo albums 1992-2007. 11 years later in 2018, he recorded his ninth, titled The Air Below, beginning in October of 2018 in a shed in his backyard. File under: downer rock, psychedelia (of a sort), private press, Eastern Massachusetts, albums recorded in a backyard shed.
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TW 1047LP
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Fifth solo album, featuring 9 tracks recorded at Twisted Village, 12/95 to 6/97. Written and played by Wayne Rogers, except "Something In The Air" written by Speedy Keane. Limited vinyl version in hand-printed sleeve; (CD version on Drag City). Descriptive information about this one took it's time forthcoming, but here it is: "The album in the words of it's creator: 'It's rather like minimalism, except within one tone there is a thousand, and then several layers of a thousand, piled high like blankets of snow on a volcano. Actually, I didn't mean to say minimalist, I meant to say obnoxious. It's rather like obnoxiousism.' Constant Displacement began as a series of experiments in song form, mainly to satisfy the whims of the artist himself, who never intended it to be issued. How else to explain the wispy balladry, the balls-to-the-wall rock 'n' roll, or the six-minute version of a lousy Thunderclap Newman song? Constant Displacement is his fifth solo album, a tribute to Rock formalism based on traditions no loftier than Danish and South Asian renditions of 'Stepping Stone,' though he is apparently hearing something in them that no one else is."
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TW 1041CD
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"Written, played and produced by Wayne Rogers,December '95 -- July '96. Wayne's fourth solo work finds him deep in the basement at Twisted Village, moving on after his last band, Magic Hour, parted ways. Infraction is forty minutes and forty seconds of instrumental bliss. Within the forty-forty dwells eleven distinct movements, strung taut with guitar heaviness and organ overdrive. As the liner notes say, 'Surprise dumping in the lake for next year...Four strong winds from the balcony...'"
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TW 1033CD
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70 minute CD which collects the first 2 vinyl-only albums released under Wayne's solo aegis: 1992's Ego River and 1994's The Seven Arms of the Sun. The songs here (which roughly can be observed as his complete finished songwork between the Crystalized Movements' slow dissolve and the quick ascent of Magic Hour) are fully realized works of dark psychedelic intensity, with a full gtr/bs/drums vocal band sound that is very non bed-roomy.
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TW 1038CD
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"Whilst his latest quartet, Magic Hour, has been grazing on 20 minute instrumental pastures, Wayne has been recording tightly constructed songs at Twisted Village's studios. All Good Works, his 3rd solo endeavor, highlights his unique mastery of the three-minute mark. Nothing Wayne touches would be whole without pushing the limits of guitar shamanism. Those seeking to be healed will take comfort in the 8 1/2 minute title track where Wayne trades eights with himself, pied pipering his guitar demons in the mere business of saving the world."
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