primordial undermind

Members:

these days: eric arn, vanessa arn, philip pfleger, daniel schmelz; and at any time or another including: sonja ante, david atkins, jared barron, meaghan burke, tom carter, courtney cater, otis cleveland, brian craft, martin crowley, douglas ferguson, grawer, mike hasselmo, brett holley, bill huss, dd kern, jonathan lamaster, john macollum, jason marcoux, matt martinez, doug pearson, nick saloman, lukas scholler, david schweighart, bc smith, dave stankoski, steve taiclet, skip turner, joe volpi, elizabeth warren, travis weller, nathan wilson ..

Sounds Like:

"Reverberating with primitive hallucinogenic drones, garage rock grinds and improvisations that slowly build from half-formed blowouts to cosmic Stockhausen-style epics... PU have crawled out of the psychedelic undergrowth and evolved into something special" - Edwin Pouncey, the Wire

"underworldy free-rock music... a kind of direct descendant of the big late ‘60s electronics-powered post-psychedelic ensembles such as Fifty Foot Hose, but much much better " - Julian Cope, Headheritage

"more than enough gnarl to satisfy the goriest of heads" - David Keenan, the Wire

"the battle between structure and chaos is a real, levitating joy" - Dave Pearce, Ptolemaic Terrascope

"Words like trippy and psychedelic were invented for this kind of music, but they seem inadequate here… try “revelatory” instead" - Jennifer Kelly, PopMatters

"Primordial Undermind attempt to bend their music away from plotted psychedelic explosions and towards free music" - John Mulvey, the Wire

"Jazzaffine Experimental/Avantgarde-Rockband... ein akustischer Abenteuertrip zwischen improvisiertem Psychedelikrock, elektro-akustischen Forschungsreisen und ambientösen Soundscapes." - Der Falter

"Unbelievably authentic psychedelia: put more reverb on the guitar and it's Blue Cheer meeting Vanilla Fudge after a month in the desert." - John Darnielle, Last Plane to Jakarta

"Chunky, sprawling jazz-psych splatter that somehow congeals into a 4-headed dragon of tidal doom and breaks apart into a thousand shards of glistening starlight and reforms" - Lee Jackson, Womblife

"unrelenting swamp-laced freeform sonic skrees, a colossal fringe-parting aural alliance that sees splintered remnants of garage grooves acid dipped in ferocious squalls of mind withering psyche stew" - Mark Barton, the Sunday Experience, Losing Today

"psychedelia with the patience of sludge-rock and the skronky soul of free jazz. Last year's Loss of Affect was a hit with the readerships of both The Wire and Arthur"- Christian Schaeffer, Riverfront Times

"extended guitar jams as much drone as garage rock as psycheblowoutslowdown. like some rockist 13th floor elevators. like the grateful dead via bardo pond via television via pink floyd via sir richard bishop" - Cows are Just Food

Labels:

Strange Attractors Audio Haouse, Emperor Jones, Camera Obscura, September Gurls