Mark Baker - guitar, bass
Stuart Fowkes - keyboards, electronics
Andrew Thompson - guitar
Ben Ulph - guitar
Mark Wilden - drums
Influences
Harmonia, Holy Fuck, Do Make Say Think, Cluster, Ride, Neu!, Parts & Labor, Epic 45, Avrocar, Glenn Branca, Add N To (X).
Sounds Like
'Drawing influence from the likes of Harmonia, Holy Fuck, Do Make Say Think and Neu!, their music twists and builds on the finest examples of krautrock, post-rock and instrumental art rock.' - The Fly
'An Oxford band that have only started out relatively, but in truth the musical history of each member (Mark Wilden seems to have been in bands forever) shows in the tightness of their sound, sometimes Motorik, other times reaching for Explosions in the Sky-esque crescendos.' - Drowned In Sound
'All instrumental but packing a luscious ambient punch... British Sea Power’s
hooking noise-rock laced with Sonic Youth split distortion. Explosions in The Sky fidgets into heavy instrumental post-rock, with math-rock tech and bursts of white noise.' - Nightshift, Oxford's music magazine
From Light To Sound are a synth-powered shoegaze krautrock band from Oxford, blending Mogwai's crescendos, Neu!'s relentless motorik and Cluster's groundbreaking analogue explorations.
Formed in 2008, the band features members of The Workhouse, Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element, The Evenings, eeebleee and The Thumb Quintet.
In their first year, FLTS became one of the most widely talked-about bands in Oxford, selling out their first EP, appearing at the Truck Festival and playing alongside the likes of Wavves and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart.
Contact us: fromlighttosound AT gmail DOT com
FLTS performing 'Heart and Electricity', November 2009
FLTS performing 'Snake Bowl Pressure', November 2009
+Playing alongside ASH / SUPERGRASS /DAMO SUZUKI (CAN) / VIEUX FARKA TOURE / THE CANDYSKINS /RED LIGHT COMPANY / WINTERSLEEP / FANFARLO / HJALTALIN / ERRORS / YACHT / DJ FOOD & DK / TOTAL SCIENCE / T.E.E.D./WILD BEASTS / A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS / GRAMMATICS /THE JOY FORMIDABLE / THE XCERTS / PULLED APART BY HORSES/ BROKEN RECORDS / MARK OLSON & GARY LOURIS / PETE MOLINARI
plus...
and so i watch you from afar/ calories/ chew lips/ colour/ danny and the champions of the world/ data select party / detroit social club/ dive dive/ dusty & the dreaming spires/ house of brothers/ skylarkin/ sportsday megaphone / the candyskins/ the elysian quartet/ the ghost of a thousand / the relationships/ the xx/ this town needs guns/ thomas truax/ treetop flyers/ truckers of husk/ we were promised jet packs/white belt yellow tag
