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"Eternity Spans was recorded in March of 2006 by Rusty Santos and Jesse Lee, with the help of their friend Paul Choe who assisted with the production. The song material and sounds were derived from RS's live sets that were performed over the previous year. Rusty and Jesse started playing together live in February and subsequently toured with the material in Japan after finishing the album. Eternity Spans in a sense is largely influenced by Bowie's Low album -- pop songs set beside ambient pieces, but here differs from Low in that the ambient and pop songs are placed side by side instead of on side A and side B. It also differs from that musical era most fundamentally because the sounds have emerged from the current musical environment in New York City, rather than mid-seventies prog rock. Since returning from Japan, Rusty and Jesse have spent their summer playing mostly in random spaces throughout New York, working out new sounds and ideas over extended live sets and improvising with various musician friends in the city. In this current arrangement, both Jesse and Rusty sing while Rusty plays guitars and samples and Jesse plays the drums. Such performances have been held at The Journal Gallery, Monkey Town, Tonic, Sculpture Center, Todd P. events, Singapore Crab Festival, rooftop parties, and on WPRB in Princeton, New Jersey. Rusty and Jesse have played together since growing up in the same town in California."
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"Rusty Santos is a singer/songwriter based in New York. More than being directly influenced by any one aspect of his musical explorations, The Heavens is a voice that has been filtered through years of interest in everything from German Minimalist (Kompakt, etc.), to the current make up of New York experimental music, to more melodramatic rock records like Sparks or early Brian Eno. Lyrics are central to Santos' songwriting process; he talks about things like getting beat up by a group of kids as a child, about being looked on as a preppie as a young adult, about how sounds can be more expressive than words, his themes usually represent equal parts optimism and doubt. Although he has a unique approach to writing them, the lyrical urgency of Rusty's songs reveal homage to earlier performers ranging from Syd Barrett or Neil Young to Ian Curtis or The Violent Femmes. At its core The Heavens is essentially an acoustic singer/songwriter venture, but Santos bent is to focus as much on the sonic landscape as on the songwriting process making The Heavens an in incredibly sonic pop record reminiscent of the electronic orchestrations of OMD or the epic pop of the Northwest '90s indie rock."
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