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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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UUAR 004EP
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"Based out of San Diego, CA, O Spirits have been recording in dedication since the year 2000. The sole member for now is Tobyn Clark; a young musician and studio innovator, who once played drums in the seminal Ida Sessions out of Portland, OR. These songs represent a tasty sampling of Clark's musical output. They tap influences as varied as the film compositions by Ennio Morricone (for his amazing arrangement skills and unconventional instrumentation) and Danny Elfman (circa Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands). They channel the warmth of Brian Eno's early solo work: Taking Tiger Mountain and Another Green World, and suggest the depth, darkness and beat of Tones on Tail."
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UUAR 003CD
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"Terrestrial Tones are Eric Copeland and Dave Portner, two dedicated musicians who make their own sounds while on hiatus from their respective bands: Black Dice and Animal Collective. The Tones' music was made to be played live through a huge stack of speakers yet listening to 'Oboroed' in your own space is oddly relaxing as sound waves morph and sonic tapestries shift. This is noise but very deep noise minimally composed and direct sounding. 'Oboroed' is slightly longer and more subdued, coming in almost like GAS and then shifting through different songs to a kaleidoscopic and epic effect. 'Circus Lives' is more aggressive, particularly with the bass frequencies, with the cascading rhythms of the mid-range, and with the bold choice of samples. Oboroed / Circus Lives was recorded by the Tones at Terrestrial Home in November 2004 then mixed and mastered with Rusty Santos in January 2005. Although the lineage from Animal Collective and Black Dice can be faintly detected in the music, Oboroed / Circus Lives maps a different territory barely touched upon with their other bands. They present electronic music with a surprising new take."
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UUAR 002CD
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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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UUAR 001CD
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Very deluxe packaged compilation of new bands, somehow associated with United Bamboo (NYC fashion line). Debut release on this label. Expensive, but feels like it's worth it -- and it's cheaper & better looking than than those Colette compilations, right? Mini-hardcover book, with 34 page book of full color artwork supplied by the featured artists. Which are: Samara Lubelski (her songs are homage to the 60's with intricate instrumental arrangements and a gentle, sensual voice); Benji Cossa (comical and ultra positive pop songs); Gang Gang Dance (a true mystic quality that you can hear in their music, as it twists and turns into different dimensions of Ethiopian style guitar melodies, gypsy style vocals and UK Garage influenced beats); Black Dice; White Magic (eclectic mix of 60s guitars and Mira Billotte's Billy Holiday like voice); Animal Collective, Blood On The Wall; Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom (new recording artists on DFA Records, homemade Moog style keyboards are used to make this magical space age music); Angel Blood (their magical sound is forged from a mixture of Norwegian Black Metal, Hungarian folk music, and American Speed metal); U W Owl (prefers to manipulate modern electronic equipment to make for mysterious and spacious sound-scapes); Turrestrial Tones (members of Black Dice and Animal Collective); Jane (a two piece group, interested in subtle movement in sounds more than drama); Coptic Light (sounds like Magma on a Rollercoaster); HSDOM (heavy deep beats, dark sound-scapes with subtle movements); Tes (Lex Records); Excepter (members of No Neck Blues Band).
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