Litmus ARE spacerock for the 21st century. A collection of throbbing bass, pounding drums, searing guitar, swirling keyboards and screeching electronics, they are here to open heads and recalibrate minds.
Live shows are an audio-visual extravaganza of projections, images and sounds, all taking the audience on a journey to the far reaches of both outer and inner space.
Litmus have supported Hawkwind, Space Ritual, the Ozric Tentacles and Arthur (The God of Hellfire) Brown. In January 2005, they were the tour support for Julian Cope on his UK tour. They played in 2002 and 2003 at Hawkwind's Hawkfest festival (appearing twice in 2003!) and in 2005 they played at the Roadburn Festival, the 2 Days of Love and Peace Festival in Wuppertal, the Celtic Warriors Festival and Sonic Rock, as well as supporting Space Ritual, American stoner rockers the Atomic Bitchwax and the amazing Witchcraft on London dates.
Their debut CD You Are Here, released on Space Music, has received massively positive reviews from, among others, Julian Cope, the Organ, Aural innovations, Head Heritage, Live 4 metal and Terrorizer Magazine.
The band's second CD "Planetfall" was released on Rise Above Records in April 2007 to great reviews from the music press, including Rocksound, Kerrang, Metal Hammer and Terrorizer.
A massively powerful live presence, Litmus need to be seen to be believed!
The recent Litmus set at the wonderful Roadburn Festival can be heard here
Kerrang! magazine recently reviewed the Litmus gig at the Grosvenor in Stockwell here
You can buy the Litmus CDs Planetfall and You Are Here (also available in mp3 format) at:
Fantastic set at the Sonic Rock and great to meet some of you when we got back from our solstice trek. Next time can you give Angel better directions to your camp! Dont forget Martin, keep practising and one day you WILL get to play in the dark;-)
the new spacerock-album by dave schmidt aka sula bassana. comes in beautiful digipac!
still available:
SULA BASSANA CD-R "Sulatronics 2"
ELECTRIC ORANGE CD "Fleischwerk"
ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE CD "Inside Your Head"
LAVA CD "Lava"
ZONE SIX CD "10 Years of Aural Psychedelic Journeys"
ANNOT RÜHL CD "Lost in the Woods"
SULA BASSANA and MODULFIX CD-R "Dämmerung"
SULA BASSANA and MODULFIX CD-R "Half Past Six"
SULA BASSANA CD-R "Endless Winter"
ELECTRIC ORANGE CD "Morbus"
ELECTRIC ORANGE CD "Platte"
SEID CD "Creatures from the Underworld"
and many more!
"Also hugely enjoyable, highly original AND psychically useful is the
music of Australian duo The Scrapes, whose fiery epic guitar and
abandoned Mithraic fiddle pieces evoke images of lost Keltic lands
inundated by the oceans, lost Iberian & Armorican sea peoples and
lost times from beyond the beyond." Julian Cope
"Also hugely enjoyable, highly original AND psychically useful is the
music of Australian duo The Scrapes, whose fiery epic guitar and
abandoned Mithraic fiddle pieces evoke images of lost Keltic lands
inundated by the oceans, lost Iberian & Armorican sea peoples and
lost times from beyond the beyond." Julian Cope
Hope you are all well just a quick plug if you folks are around on the Friday of the Sonic Rock Soltice i shall be playing a ELECTRIC DUB GURU www.myspace.com/electricdubguru set at 17.00 on the other stage aswell as that i shall be playing a improvised electronica set also on the friday night about 12ish i think and that shall be on the second stage aswell.
Hope to see you there and i hope you come and say hello i won't bite unless i am asked LOL
OUT on June 05, 2009 - "One listen to this musical outfit from Southern Russia known as Vespero was all it took to make me begin thinking about the great things that must be happening in Russia…" - by Ryan Sparks, Sea Of Tranquility. RAIG is proud to announce Vespero "Surpassing All Kings" (R041, CD), the second studio album by psychedelic/progressive/space rock band from Astrakhan.
Guest musicians include: The great Simon House!,Isobel Morris from Bruise, Louis Davey from Gunslinger, Nigel Potter (Gunslinger founder member!), Josh Dreamspirit and James Hodkinson. It will be available exclusively from my myspace site via link above for now!
hi litmus how r u all,cant wait for the new album,both your albums are the best around in the space rock genre there just how it should be heard,i know your new album is gonna be good,keep up the good work your doing and lets hope you get bigger on the 3rd album as your a brilliant band and deserve to be more known i do try and help to spread the word which a couple of my mates do like ya music but i,ll try to get more people to know about you,ive got to say my favorite track by you is expanding universe[twinstar pt 2],also ive got the tribute to hawkwind album daze of the underground with your version of hawkwinds paradox on it which is excellent and in the notes it says theres a killer version of assault and battery on one of your demos which can be obtained from your site anychance of putting it up in your myspace so we can all hear it i bet its brilliant to,i,m the kind of fan of you that wants everything by you,can you let me know if i can get a copy of the demo or assault and battery song you done please thanks,have a good week and i,m gonna put u up in my top friends,hope u gig in ipswich or near soon as i mainly just go to gigs around ipswich.thanks
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