Mike Gunn, Dunlavy, Linus Pauling Quartet,
Grimm Experience - the Houston heavy psych scene of the 90s.
You can call Linus Pauling Quartet's music endless acid
jamming, spaced-out improvisation, stoner rock, heavy psyche or
whatever you like. But every time you listen to it, you can feel the
heavy, buzzing guitar riffs, the trippy electric sound of the American
heavy/psychedelic/we're-drinkin'-and-jammin' tradition.
Here is their 2nd LP - released in 550 copies
In
band's own words: Ramon Medina: I think we
write what we do
because we grew up near NASA, playing D&D, reading Tolkein, and
smoking a lot of fucking dope! (from Nicholas L. Hall’s interview with
the Linus Pauling Quartet at Houstoned
Rocks)
When Michael Demmler and
Eva Koehler of September Gurls listened to the live tracks that were
intended as a
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Tracks : 1 Club Aquarium 2 Gemini 3 The Twilight Bong 4 Irsi 5 Interstellar Rainbow Lung 6 Scultress Sublime
Review From Aural Innovations #16 (June 2001)
Founded in Portugal late 1996 by multi-instrumentalist Luis Simoes,
Saturnia are a fresh and inspiring duo who offer spacey organic
drenched atmospherics, mixed with sitar induced ambience and ethnic
drum and bass rhythms. They edge slightly towards the strange
dancetrance than they do towards spacerock, but don't let that put you
off because they offer their own brand of space on here that is
reminiscent of early Pompeii Pink Floyd meets Portishead meets Anubian
Lights meets Ravi Shanker. Certainly a new one on me.
On this, their first release, we have an interesting combination of
Luis Simoes: Guitar- Sitar-Lapsteel Guitar-Vocals-Theremin-Gong and
Loopings, and old time friend Eduardo Vasconcelos aka M.Strange:
Organ-Synthesizer-Theremin-Gong and Loopings. The first offe
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