THE ATOM BAND IS:
Brendon Hertz * Scarytoes * Def Mute
Lt. Spark * Emerson Betchkal
Influences
bzzing!
Modest Mouse . Sun Ra . Bob Dylan . Skip James
Frank Zappa . Animal Collective . Wilco . The Who
Javanese Gamelan . Don Cabellero . The Books
Pink Floyd . Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Roscoe Mitchell . The Butthole Surfers . Gary Snyder
They Might Be Giants . Leo Kottke . Sigur Ros . MMW
Phish . Nick Drake . Alexander 'Skip' Spence . The Flaming Lips
Neil Young . Steve Reich . Sonic Youth . Les Claypool
The Grateful Dead . Adrian Belew . Karlheinz Stockhausen
Dock Boggs . birds singing . washing machines
american storytellers/tall tales . cars moving
Tristan Tzara . Alfred Jarry . Black Elk .
Sounds Like
the point at which the eye can no longer resolve, yet beyond which one knows, most certainly, something exists.
also, pies cooling on windowsills.
These days, I set my roots down at The Utica Flower Company. If you're a friend of human-made, earthly music; this is the place to meet:
Simon Piler is a human being. He is also an experimental folk musician and poet
living/humming on the dark grayish brown to very dark brown, weak, fine and subangular blockily-structured, very friable, nonsticky nonplastic extremely acid typic haplogelods of the alaska range. His father travels long distances to see rare hummingbirds. His mother taught him how to hang dry wall and to can very salty pickles. His kid brother can put him into a headlock as easy as one would intake a breath into the lungs.
Asked while brushing teeth: "I've driven in a chariot harnessed to cloud dogs, sweeping over the pine barrens and sweet-fern ditches and picking songs," he says. "I mean, this is reality, right? This is science."
Simon: "I'm never sure if my mind is made up or not. If it is, made up must have a dual meaning."
A Discography:
NEW NEW RADISH / QUIXODELIC RELEASES!
KINGTIME
Released in the 'Invisible Box-Set' on Quixodelic Records - hop on over and take a look at all the creations that have been set forth! A virtual NOSEMINE of ALBUMS!!! (What a good number of exclamation points...) QUIXODELIC BOX-SET
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Simon Piler and The Atom Band.
"Here’s one for your summer-sun-addled minds. Looming in the wake of this year’s folklore masterpiece “Songs From Home”, Simon Piler and his merry Atom Band are back with an eponymous album recorded in the Florida springtime. Somewhere between folk and experimental, bolstered by samples and strange instrumentation, this collection of songs is a fascinating jungle of ideas, where the thin line between dreams and reality gets rubbed out in the firey poetry of sound snapshots." - Smally OM, Ringleader and Philanthropist
You can download this album, complete with lyrics, from the Daydream Generation site.
That is,
The Quixodelic Record Store!!
I hope you are well, everybody.
CYP2D6 (June, 2009!)
A collaboration with Namu the Disco Whale, out of Chicago.
Sonic Hummmmmm and Squish. Expect precise experiments.
Released by Quixodelic Records / NEW RADISH .
A Quixodelic Records / NEW RADISH release!
Coming fresh to you from our biscuit-ovens!
(click the album covers, above...)
ARE THE SONGS THAT YOU SING MADE UP? *special recording session semi-release* Test EP (Election Day, 2008) theatre music EP (Halloween, 2008) A DISASTER (Sept. 2008) Short Score's Album/EXIT. (May 2008) cattle tracks (Dec. 2007) music journal *90-minute musical sketchpad-cassette, limited copies.* (Sept. 2007) garden. (Aug. 2007 w/ Def Mute) Frog Age (May 2006) ZenOnceWas EP (Feb. 2005) One Hundred Consecutive Lines to Dewdroplets Twenty-one Musician (Jan. 2004)
All of these recordings are available in CD or digital formats unless indicated.
If you give me your address, electronic or real, I'd be happy to send 'em your way free of charge - I'll even pay postage.
imagination kings [!]
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VIDEOS BEGIN HERE
- video for this production provided by Def Mute, music by The Atom Band.
Thanks so much! I do have an album in the works. It might be a while due to the fact that i dont have a computer at the moment. but it gives me a chance to get my songs the way i want them i guess. The first five songs on my player are actually originals. So that a little taste of what might be on the album whenever it happens. Thanks for listening!
It's been a while, but here we go again. Back from the dead thirty-eight-song-stories high and breathing musical fire, it's the seventh DAYDREAM GENERATION compilation. Everything you'd expect from one of our free compilations - tunes you can shake your sticks at, psychedelic sonnets, folk weirdness, electronic circuitry for the earballs, and things that go pop! in the night.
Here are some of the people you might find on there, some you may have heard of before, but even better if you haven't: ROCKETSHIPS OF LOVE, WARCHALKING, AKRYLLIC LOVE, FROGVILLE, JAMES REDMOND, SUCKS TO LALA LAND, WHITE GUYS JUMPING, THE FALLING FLOORS, THE SPACE BETWEEN THINGS, CODY HIGH SCHOOL, BROKEN MONO, BRENDON HERTZ, A NOBLE GHOST, THE PAINTED SHUTS, THE INVISIBLE MOUTH, ALLAN DOUGLAS, CHANSONS DE GESTE, SOCIETY, VOLCANO, FIG MINTS (OF YOUR IMAGINATION), THE REAL BURNOUTS, E. A BARTHOLOMEW, SIMON PILER AND THE ATOM BAND, JOHN LUDINGTON, VENICE GAS HOUSE TROLLEY, THE GROSVENOR SUITE, THE RED PLASTIC BUDDHA, ROLLERCOASTER, THE ORANGE DROP, JOSEPH RIDE, BECKY N, MOUSEY BROWN, THE WHEELIES, THE OUT FAMILY RAVEN, OLD NORTH, THE ARTIFICIAL SEA, UBERFUZZ, and DEAD CANARIES.
Every once in a while a record lands in your life and blows you away. This is one of those records - an intelligent and heartfelt collection of folk-psychedelics, with songs that will linger in your mind like ghosts long after they have played. Dublin's THE LOADED WHISPERS are probably as great as lo-fi musicians get, combining the brilliant poetry of Jeremiah James and the unmistakeable mind-blowing voice of Syd Lane, over fuzzy stripped-back psych guitar and dancing piano keys. "Artists Use Lies To Tell The Truth" is a perfect introduction to what they do, with so many stand-out tracks that all you can do is let the record play out from beginning to end. And that really is the truth.
Now this is exciting. Been a long time since we first heard and were blown away by River Speak English's "Puzzle Piece" on Daydream Generation 2. A year and a half later and we're made up to be hosting one half of the aforementioned collaboration's debut record. "Well Under Thirty" is a collection of Bob Dylan covers by Sucks To LaLa Land's Keith Crain - as well as being a beautiful introduction to this talented singer/songwriter, it's arguably as great a collection of Dylan covers as I've ever heard. Listening to the 8 tracks featured was like discovering Bob Dylan all over again.
You can download it for FREE at the Quixodelic Records link on our site right now
Have you received my letter yet? OR, is this commenting on the message I sent you on FB? OR, is this commenting on Jump The Wagon's new recordings? OR, am I totally and stupidly unaware?
