4 Zero Records is a small independent record label specialising in psych and space-rock... and I run it.
Our next release is "Sci-Fi Hi-Fi" by Earthling Society, due out on the 20th July. You can preview tracks at our web site and their Myspace site.
Speakers play alien comm in static slate grey hum. DIY antennae through broken windows tune into lysergic frequencies. Earthling Society have, with their new album, tried to fly higher than pilots have flown. Six journey songs reveal a glorious new far out paranoid phase for the group. More progressive and kraut-informed than before. Calling to the night owls with their urban late night drives and desert trips.
Liquid synths and flying saucer guitars play a different kind of space rock. It's the space between your ears where the lotus wheel suspends, turning and turning, never ends....
Now it's time.
Crack open a can of UBIK, sit back, relax and turn on the SCI-FI HI-FI
"Beauty and the Beast" by lo-fi Kraut-angst acid rockers, Earthling Society, was released 6th May 2008. Following on from the critically acclaimed “Tears Of Andromeda”, “Albion”, and “Plastic Jesus” this was the band's fourth album, recorded at their self-built studio. “Beauty…” saw them absorbing acid folk and West Coast psychedelic influences, whilst maintaining the heavier Krautrock sound that epitomises their live shows.
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"Coaxed Out from Oxford" by free floating space anarchists Here & Now was released on 22nd October 2007. This has been lovingly remastered and features bonus tracks including a previously unheard song, 'Jimmy Mac', liner notes from Le Missile and artwork by Stacie Willoughby. Rock'N'Reel magazine said it is "a splendid documentary of one of the best live acts of the era at the height of their power".
"Yesterday, I Saw You Kissing Tiny Flowers", by Alison Faith Levy & Mushroom, was released on 26th May 2007. The Wire think that Alison's singing is "strong and soulful in the mould of the ladies of West Coast psychedelic scene", and Dream Magazine described the album as going "From lullaby gentle, to extrapolated electric blues grooving, moody slow motion torch songs, to percolating polyrhythmic Miles Davis-like funk jazz". The artwork by Nat Russell is simply gorgeous, but can only really be appreciated if you buy the CD!
Our first release was "Really Don't Mind If You Sit This One Out", a collection of live recordings by maverick San Fran instrumental space-rock psych groove masters, Mushroom. Eastbayexpress made it one of their top 10 records of 2006.
Our future releases include a new album by space rock stalwarts Here & Now, and an “Indian raga/drone/folk-rock” epic by San Fran pysch groove masters, Mushroom. The Mushroom album was captured in exclusive sessions in 2007; the final preparations and track sequencing are now complete, and the artwork is just starting.
You can buy all our releases from Amazon and the usual stores, or download them from iTunes (and others). To get free downloads and more information on these and other releases, go to our web site at http://www.4zerorecords.co.uk
