steve santa maria, george chen. we use samples on our record from eric ostrowski and yoko matsuda.
the album is available at the
Zum store and through Revolver.
Influences
so far we've played shows with usaisamonster, yellow swans, sightings, hair police, open city, comets on fire, burning star core, rubber o cement, kites, prurient, hospitals, big techno werwolves, goofice, pedestrian deposit, warbler, i explode you, cold war, militant children's hour, exjesus, modular set, bettertoseeyouwith, felicia and coctopus, oscillating innards, corpsekisser, fred thomas, yacht, world, nudge, noggin, ultra boyz, joey casio, the sunken, monster dudes, pussy gutt, damion romero, mitchell brown, yuma nora, dead bird, axolotl, core of the coalman, belss, gregg kowalsky, bulbs, oaxacan, portland bike ensemble, hank iv, scarcity of tanks, sic alps, brown un, foque mopus, the moms, sword and sandals, 1&7 death, blues control, shepherds, raccoo-oo-oon, evan miller, necking, puttin on the ritz, the urxed, shooting spires, extra life, castanets, oh sees, cars will burn, dave smolen, mincemeat or tenspeed, tom carter, ava mendoza, david daniell, ettrick, ovo, brilliant colors, people people, grass widow, lumerians, these are powers, sissy spacek, death sentence:panda, jason crumer, big nurse, take up serpents, moment trigger, lemon bear, pykrete, aram shelton, synt.tofs, lazy magnet, pro bro gold, pod blotz, kool teen, wiggwaum, mom, warm streams, lucky dragons, pit er pat, ezra buchla, wiese, child bride, tunnels, litanic mask, yellow crystal star, sex negative, dan friel, totally ripped, redneck, arbitron, white rainbow, grandfather claws, grouper, date palms, finches, foot village, zayante spoils, the atchleys ...
Sounds Like
AQUARIUS REVIEW 4/24/09:
George Chen is responsible for so many cool things in the Bay Area. Whether it's helping keep the all-ages scene alive with Club Sandwich, injecting life into zine culture, championing all sorts of weird and unusual music, etc. So it's kind of easy to forget that the man is also quite an awesome music maker himself, for proof just check out records he's been on in bands like 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Common Eider King Eider, Voltz, etc.
Teamed up with Steve Santa Maria the two have put together quite a potent concoction of damaged, haunting and often gorgeous textural sounds that rank right up there with folks like Taiga Remians, Simon Wickham-Smith and Birchville Cat Motel. Collapsing electronics, fractured guitar, seamless samples and primitive drum machines all come together to create sounds that would make the perfect soundtrack to a mysterious and brooding post-apocalyptic experimental film. These are sounds of machines on their last legs, creeping and crawling through fields of grit and grime and buzz and glitch trying to survive. Their affiliation with the East Bay noise scene can be heard on some of the more squelching and stuttering moments here, but they also have a more subtle side to their sound that is more dreamy and drifting keeping things drifting and spacey and oh so hypnotic!
two guys first started playing together as megaweapon / fun santa maria. for a northwest tour in january 2004. changed the name in feb 2004 cause that was a mouthful. album recorded with ricardo esway released in fall 2008 on gssd/Shit On Records. upcoming recordings on compilations
DJ That Hideous Strength will be spinning his New Wave Psych Disco Prog platters for you & yours @ The Argus Lounge this Saturday night, 2/21/09 9pm-2am • free • 3187 Mission (@ Valencia)
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