Seven Levels: Joe Turner (guitar), Michael Braga (guitar), Carolyn Corella (bass), Wright Maney (drums), Dan Parmenter (piano), Joel Simches (organ/synth).
Special guest Levels on "Between Two Seconds": Bill Doss, Sam Mixon (vocals); Heather McIntosh (cello), Brendan Quinn, Mark Dwinell (guitars).
Former Levels: David Bentley (guitar/cello), Ajda Snyder (flute/accordion/vocals), Carl Harkness (drums)
Joe Turner has always sung and played a variety of instruments, so when his previous outfit Abunai! called it quits after five years, he got off their drum stool and back to work on some new sounds of his own. After the 'small' distraction of organizing the universally loved Terrastock 5 festival was over, he began to make a year and half of unemployment worthwhile by focusing on his new solo sounds. "Between Two Seconds" runs a wire-length between meditative gauze-rock and full-on rocking psychedelia. He's got plenty of inspired experience to draw on, having performed with The Lilys, Barbara Manning, Damo Suzuki (Can), Brother JT, and Nick Saloman (Bevis Frond), as well as several times with the Boston Rock Opera. Joe's song contributions to Abunai! had left a clue as to the layered, melodious urges that he'd been harboring, and now those urges are ripe for the rock harvest.
Whether it's the huge harmonies that fill up "Coordinate Zero" (an audio picture-postcard from Amsterdam), the rock-solid drums and sharp guitar leads in "Perfect the First Time", a watery piano leading the way in "When the Day Crowd Leaves", or the muscular bass of "Stella Luna" (written only after seeing, but not actually reading, the children's book of the same name) Joe uses his unerring melodic sensibility to plunk stoned cyclical mantras onto the same skewer as twitchy psych-pop, delivering a delicious rock shishkebab to your plate.
"Turn Me Upside-Down" appears on the compilation CD The Further Adventures of the Telepathic Explorers from Free City Media (http://www.freecitymedia.com).
Listen for "When the Day Crowd Leaves" in the independent film "The Offering".
Joe Turner & the Seven Levels's Friend Space (Top 40)
Joe thanks for the beer and thank you very much for the invitation! I really needed to get out and the music was amazing! I hope to see you again soon ...
[Hey, Watertown: I remember they at least used to have a no-live-music ordinance.]
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