Portland’s Halcyon High merges cinematic beauty, chaos, and human emotion into an otherworldly audio/visual experience. Formed by Roger Anderson in 2004, Halcyon High’s music is made up of pulsating guitar loops, hypnotic drones, and electronic effects with occasional vocals and customized video projections.
Reviews
"Halcyon High sends off spindly electric guitar lines and whitecaps of white noise in a Spacemen 3-style shoegaze zone-out." - Online Rock
"The epic soundscapes displayed on "to be infinite" are moving and powerful. It's transcendentalism in musical form; no illegal substances needed." - The Mass Media
"Halcyon High makes deep, momentous experimental rock" - Download.com
roger, you are, and always we be, awesomeness personified. glad you're still keeping the northwest awash with waves of guitar! -vaortrail / halcyon high forever!!! -jeremy
Hey Roger! Thanks for great visual at Sonic's show. Water dripping parts were right on with his music!! I enjoyed his stuff so much more with your visual behind him. Great work! Miyako
Holy moly Roger, what a show! Where were the other 600 guitarists when you were up on stage?!! Amazing stuff for an amazing night. Thanks a bunch for setting that up, we'll keep in touch!
Thanks for the kind words, Roger. I popped in the DVD last weekend. I'd been listening to so much big-band music lately that you totally reminded me how much I love shoegazer stuff. Dream on, psychic astronaut!