Grindlestone began in 1999 with musicians Douglas Erickson (Zesty Enterprise) and Don Falcone (Spirits Burning). Their first single released was on MARGEN: MUSIC FROM THE EDGE VOL. 4 with fellow artists: Steve Roach, Absolute Zero, Camp Blackfoot etc. So far they have perfected their first full-length CD entitled "one."
REVIEWS:
"One is a very pleasant album to listen to, although occasionally the mood gets rather dark. The music is mainly quite minimal and cosmic. All in all, this is a very nice album that is perhaps best to put on if you want to relax and get some distance from the dull everyday life."
-- Dj Astro, Psychotropic Zone (January 15, 2009)
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"If Fripp and Eno's two '70's albums No Pussyfooting and Evening Star had included Edgar Froese from the same time period (when he released Aqua, Epsilon in Malaysian Pale and Macula Transfer), then they would have sounded like One. Since these are among my favorite electronic albums of that day, and totally defined the "ambient music" genre (in my mind at least), it makes me really like Grindlestone. Actually, though One starts off this way, it also starts to incorporate some darker ambient elements partway through (they've compared this aspect to Robert Rich, which I must agree with), and these elements fit nicely into Grindlestone's sound.
Grindlestone began in 1999 with Don Falcone (Spirits Burning, etc.) getting together with guitarist (and Guitar Craft alum) Douglas Erickson. Unlike many of Falcone's other projects, this one doesn't have a dozen guest musicians, but is just these two as a duo. This seems to make the music quite a bit more focused and less chaotic than, say, Spirits Burning, which, to be frank, suits me just fine.
One is their debut release, and I love it. This is some of the best ambient music I've heard since the '70's by those very bands I just mentioned. For those of you who share my passion for this style, you'll need Grindlestone's One in your collection. I'm hoping for Two some day."
-- Fred Trafton , GEPR (December 12, 2008)
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"Ambient electro, very chill and downtempo and sparse to be almost experimental, but a definite presence of electronica and beats, if swallowed. Very pretty and ambient. Local artists." -- Your Imaginary Friend, KZSU Zookeeper Online (October 21, 2008)
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"Utilizing guitars, bass, and a laundry list of synthesizers, samplers, effects and percussion, Don and Doug have created a space ambient/soundscape/sound exploration album that defies simple categorization. There are 13 tracks, and while they are consistent in their basic sound, there's something very different happening on nearly every track.
. . . This is definitely an album that begs multiple listens. Too much variety and so much happening in this music to absorb it all in a single listen. And that's a good thing."
-- Jerry Kranitz, Aural Innovations 40 (September 2008)
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". . . the two have created a musical entity something initially pointing to modern Tangerine Dream or a clever sci-fi soundtrack with the occasional nod to techno."
-- Jeff Melton, Exposé Magazine, (October 2008)
by Jerry Kranitz
From Aural Innovations ..34 (August 2006)
"Grindlestone is a project I have with a friend of mine named Doug Erickson. He's a guitarist that was in a band called New Sun years ago. He's appeared on Spirits Burning and was on the last Spaceship Eyes CD.
But he's friends with Peter Thelen at Expose, and years ago Spaceship Eyes did a couple gigs for Expose's Exposure music series. And the guy who setup the gig was Jeff Melton. Basically, Jeff and I met in the parking lot outside of Rasputin's music store. We got to talking and he was intrigued with some of my past, in terms of the Silent ambient stuff, and said he had a good friend who plays guitar and is a disciple of Fripp, and it might be interesting if the two of us got together and did a kind of Fripp and Eno type thing.
So Doug and I got together. Finally after 7 or 8 years of starting pieces and throwing them out, we finally got to a point of throwing out stuff and starting new stuff, and continually not doing the Fripp/Eno idea that Jeff was probably thinking we would do, and we came up with this more of a dark ambient industrial CD. And I've just started in the last couple months to shop that around. It's got a real good sound. There's moments of Tangerine Dream. There is some moments of Fripp/Eno. But there's some stuff that starts getting more into Robert Rich and darker."
License GRINDLESTONE's music for commercial use
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Thankyou for adding Sonic World Festival, 4/5th September 2009. Tickets are available from www.sonicworldfestival.co.uk and www.myspace.com/harveybainbridgemusic as well as our own myspace site. £30 for the whole weekend, indoor toilets, free showers, free camping, bars, bar meals and restaurant, indoor venue.
hi thx for your mesaage,i see that my last message looked a bit stupid lol,i basicly didnt read your info,and i see that don falcone is the same person as in spirits burning,basicly i only listened to the music,basicly i had a few drinks lolol,hope you understand,thanks again
cheers for the add ;) now i got even more cool tunes to listen to while i surf the web unpurturbed in my never ending quest to seek out the ancient mythical legend known only as sanity, if you find it before i do please let me know where to find it
hi thx for the request your very welcome,always nice to hear new music and it sounds good,i see that don falcone is in band is he the same don as in sprits burning,cheers
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