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MIDDAY VEIL – ” I Am The War “

Posted: November 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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Seattle’s Midday Veil are getting noticed all over the place, which is quite an accomplishment for a band that counts Stockhausen among their influences and has been known to cover Amon Düül II.” “Midday Veil consistently produces some of the best experimental psychedelic music I’ve ever heard, always bending genres and minds at the same time.”

“Even when they’re voyaging deep into the unknown, Midday Veil stimulate the synapses with dynamic arrangements and the kind of melodic sensibility that eludes the majority of their peers. They bludgeon, seduce and inflame.”
Known for dramatic performances as well as subtle, varied recordings, Seattle experimental rock ensemble Midday Veil combines otherworldly vocals and cosmic synths with driving, hypnotic rock grooves to produce music that rewards careful listening and defies easy categorization. These Space rockers adding electronic elements to their arsenal , but Midday Veil’s sojourn into more danceable rhythms doesn’t hinder their ability to get really far out, while still dispensing existential lyrical wisdom.

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Members
Emily Pothast
David Golightly
Timm Mason
Jayson Kochan
Garrett Moore

EERIE WANDA – ” To Dream Again / I Am Over Here “

Posted: November 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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Amsterdam’s Eerie Wanda is the creative outlet for talented Croatian/Dutch singer/songwriter Marina Tadic but the band also includes Jacco Gardner’s very talented rhythm section. Eerie Wanda’s debut album, “Hum” was released at the end of February by Brooklyn’s Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records. Mixed by Jacco Gardner, it’s an absolutely lovely piece of sun-dappled psych-pop, the kind of record that you want to put on Sunday mornings while drinking coffee, reading the paper, and not leaving the house.

The band have a very cute video for new single “I Am Over Here,” which Tadic directed himself using primitive but effective stop-motion animation. The video, fits the song’s desert island vibe perfectly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz26Qw8vbm4

Members
Marina Tadic (songwriting, vocals, guitar) Jasper Verhulst (bass, production) Bram Vervaet (guitar) Nic Niggebrugge (drums) Marnix Wilmink (percussion)

VARIOUS ARTISTS – ” Beyond Beyond is Beyond 2016 Summer Jam Sampler “

Posted: November 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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Hey buds! We’re happy to share with you this Beyond Beyond is Beyond Jam Sampler to make the winter nights a little more bearable in 2016 and a little more…………Beyond!

IT’S FREE or NAME YOUR PRICE! DOWNLOAD IT AND SHARE IT ROUND>>>>>>>>>>>BUT if you PAY AT LEAST $5 for the compilation download, you will be entered to win a new BBiB “Heads” t-shirt (designed by The Myrrors’ Nik Rayne), a Myrrors “Entranced Earth” test pressing or a Heaters “Baptistina” test pressing!

Beyond Beyond is Beyond 2016 Summer Jam Sampler cover art by Nik Rayne.

**Grab physical copies (and digital) of all these releases here:beyondbeyondisbeyond.com/store

 

SAM KOGON – ” Psychic Tears “

Posted: October 27, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“Psychic Tears“, the new album from Brooklyn artist Sam Kogon, does more in its opening one minute and forty-five seconds than most albums you’ll happen upon this year. Said track, the warped instrumental paves the way for the rest of his brilliant new record, instantly setting the tone for all that follows, framing the record with a psychedelic swirl of colours and patterns, dragging you deep inside Sam Kogon’s world before you’re even had a chance to examine your surroundings.

Describing the record as a “painstakingly detailed work of modern-retro guitar pop” barely even scratches the surface of what’s found within, and, indeed, it’s often difficult to acutely described what’s going, given the dizzying effect that a number of these tracks induce. There are Beatles comparisons that will inevitably crop up, and lines can certainly be drawn towards the work of The Shins and others of such ilk, however “Psychic Tears” is delivered with such adulterated passion.

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An altogether complete work, the tracks here veer between effervescent baroque styled pop and the more withdrawn moments; a sugar-sweet, heartfelt duet with Frankie Cosmos providing one of the album’s more restrained moments and sits as one of its most endearing numbers. Elsewhere, on tracks such as “I’m Letting Go” and “The Way To Talk To Boys”, the whole thing leaps with such abandon.

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A sublime patchwork of influence, “Psychic Tears” is a dynamic and exquisitely-produced trip through Kogon’s soulful, endlessly inventive mind – and it might well provide one of 2016’s most bold excursions. The whole thing is released via Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records.

DRAKKAR NOWHERE – ” How Could That Be Why ? “

Posted: July 16, 2016 in MUSIC
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Drakkar Nowhere capture the wind in their sails with a sound that’s boundless, expansive and, perhaps, guided only by the light of the sun and stars.

That Drakkar Nowhere ended up somewhere at all is itself more a result of circumstance than careful course-charting. The history of the album traces back to the summer of 2012, when two members of the New York-based Phenomenal Handclap Band (bandleader/keyboardist/producer Daniel Collás and vocalist/guitarist Morgan Phalen) found themselves creating new music in the kitchen of a rented apartment in Stockholm, Sweden. Their new project caught the ears of nearby musicians, including members of Dungen and The Amazing, and before long, this extended family of international musicians were recording the songs that would firmly put them on the path to nowhere – Drakkar Nowhere, that is of course.

It would be a bit much to propose that the album’s origin in a Stockholm kitchen reveals an “everything but the kitchen sink” approach to the music made by Drakkar Nowhere. In fact, the true revelation of the album is that such happenstance can result in an album that sounds so fully realized, so utterly complete – as if by setting no course, by rejecting no ideas, Drakkar Nowhere arrive at a destination of their own creation.

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Both Collás and Phalen took inspiration from their Swedish surroundings – in particular, the enchanted forests that surround the neighborhoods of Bagarmossen and Midsommarkransen. And given the talents and histories of the collaborating musicians, it’s no surprise that the ever-evolving shadow of what we might broadly call Swedish psychedelica should perfume the proceedings as well. What is surprising – and what makes the Drakkar Nowhere album one that benefits from repeat listens – is how unobtrusive those influences are on the album’s ultimate sound. Drakkar Nowhere present a combination of influences – cosmic jazz, syrupy soul and mutated prog among them – in such an effortless manner that they don’t really feel like “influences” at all. As a result, Drakkar Nowhere have built an album that may have listeners ears recalling the crystalline harmonies of the Brothers Gibb more often than it does Träd, Gräs and Stenar.

No destination, no influences – just nowhere. And in the hands of Drakkar Nowhere. it’s clearly the place to be.

VARIOUS ARTISTS – ” Beyond Beyond is Beyond 2016 Summer Jam Sampler “

Posted: June 17, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Summer’s here and the time is right for the BBiB 2016 Summer Jam Sampler! And this one’s even got two never-heard-before tracks from the brand-new mutant progressive rock band, Drakkar Nowhere, and the psychedelic folk guitar-picking duo, Elkhorn.

The Jam Sampler is FREE…BUT anyone who pays at least $5 for the download will be entered to win one of three killer prizes: the new BBiB “Music For Heads” t-shirt, a Myrrors “Entranced Earth” test pressing, and a Heaters “Baptistina” test pressing! Get in there…

The MYRRORS – ” Entranced Earth “

Posted: May 20, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Arizona seems to have a particular quality that creates inspired rock bands with slightly fried edges or more, whether it’s long-running stalwarts like the Meat Puppets or underground psych legends like the Black Sun Ensemble. Call it the harsh environment—or the fact that it’s better to practice inside away from the heat and dust, even while feeling it through the walls.

The Myrrors are a strong young Arizona band keeping that tradition alive on their third album Entranced Earth, which will be released on Beyond Beyond is Beyond come May 27th. It places them with other equally powerful acts in psych/drone’s newest generation, such as Japan’s Kikagaku Moyo, Canada’s Shooting Guns and the UK’s Cult of Dom Keller and Haikai No Ku—all with their own sounds and aesthetics, but all dedicated to being enthralled by head-nodding waves of feedback and general zoning out.

Originally formed by drummer Grant Beyschau and guitarist Nik Rayne in 2007, the Myrrors self-released their debut, Burning Circles in the Sky, before its original members had even graduated from high school. The reputation of the band grew strong enough that eventually Beyschau and Rayne reactivated the group with newer lineups some years later, resulting in last year’s Arena Negra, their first album for Beyond Beyond is Beyond.

With tracks ranging from shorter meditations like “Liberty is in the Streets” to the lengthy “Invitation Mantra,” Entranced Earth shows the Myrrors on a roll, following touring and higher profile shows like last year’s Austin Psych Fest.

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The MYRRORS – ” Arena Negra “

Posted: November 30, 2015 in MUSIC
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From The Myrrors’ “Arena Negra”
Release date: March 24th, 2015 on Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records Flute Alert! Yes, there is flute on this record but don’t be scared…embrace it, because this is music that certainly embraces the listener. This is a psych record that caresses and soothes with songs that drift, and seem to go everywhere and nowhere at the same time. It comes as no surprise that the band are natives of Arizona and the whole record has a shamanistic like quality, almost like it is guiding you through an outer-body experience above the desert. Tracks build and build into crescendos of perfect noise and yet it is the quieter, more ambient phases of the songs that seem to speak loudest. There is a stillness about the album, nothing is hurried and last track “The Forward Path” is the epitome of this, clocking in at nearly 21 mins. This is music to lay back and get lost in, to dream, to reflect, but, more than anything, to just enjoy

SUNDAYS and CYBELE – ” Empty Seas “

Posted: July 11, 2015 in MUSIC
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Describing music of great power and great expanse as “cinematic” can be fitting, if perhaps overused. When it comes to the music of Tokyo’s Sundays and Cybele, it’s incredibly appropriate.

“Sundays and Cybele” is the title of a 1962 French film directed by Serge Bourguignon, and the winner of an Oscar that year for “Best Foreign Language Film.” Conversely, “Heaven” is the title of the 2015 album from Sundays and Cybele, a Japanese band speaking the universal language of explosive, kaleidoscopic sound, for a result easily translated as both heavy and heavenly.

“Heaven” announces its intentions immediately; opening track “Black Rainbows” takes to the skies in an initially unhinged manner, sounding as much like an ending as a beginning, before a gate-crashing bass line drops us firmly into the overdriven world of Sundays and Cybele. If you’ve ever yearned to hear an Orange amp threaten to explode in a transcendent array of colors, “Heaven” is the album for you. “Almost Heaven” follows, providing evidence that Sundays and Cybele seem always to be reaching for peak experience, here demonstrated by a lead guitar break that seems to merge the differences between Ash Ra Tempel and The Dead Boys into a single, illuminating whole.

Since 2004, Sundays and Cybele has functioned as essentially the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Kazuo Tsubouchi. On “Heaven,” Tsubouchi’s reach seems to aim even higher than ever before. At just over eight minutes, “Night Predator” is the longest song on the album, one that begins with a jaunty, upbeat melody that would seem to slightly betray the song’s title. Yet there’s something in the brittle, bruised stabs of guitar that punctuate the song that makes it clear the intent here is to draw blood – or at least bare its teeth. The same could be said of following track “Empty Seas” or, indeed, of the full album “Heaven” in and of itself. Sundays and Cybele possess a preternatural ability to infuse the straightforward with a strong shot of weirdness, which in turn allows their weirder moments to feel incredibly straightforward and easily translated.

“Hinagiku” and “Time Mirror” end the album on what, out of context, could easily be heard as a melancholy note. Given the extraordinary fuzz pedal abuse of the album’s previous twenty-six minutes, however, these two songs sound like Sundays and Cybele having reached their unreachable goal of “Heaven,” before floating away on another boundless, burning excursion. Heaven only knows where they’ll take us next. Thanks to Ryan Revolt of the Apes.

 

 

 

The MYRRORS – ” Arena Negra “

Posted: July 11, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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There’s more than a hint of mystery surrounding The Myrrors, the impossible-to-define sonic-shaman hailing from the Tucson, Arizona. The mystery, however, feels far from manufactured – it would appear to exist naturally within the band’s collective DNA, a double-helix of third-eye vision that informs their every note. 

Certainly, there’s something mysterious about the band’s first album, “Burning Circles in the Sky,” given that it was recorded “sometime in 2008” (as stated by The Myrrors themselves), but only saw release late in 2013. And there’s something mysterious about the constant hum of activity that has defined the band in the months since “Burning Circles” was released – a hum that includes adding two more releases to their fast-growing catalog, along with an invitation to appear at “Levitation,” the 2015 incarnation of Austin Psych Fest.

Yet with the release of “Arena Negra” – the band’s first release for Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records – there are signs that the mystery has been solved. Put another way, there may have never been a mystery to solve in the first place. As the forty-two minute journey unfolds, it becomes abundantly clear that The Myrrors are simply one of the most compelling bands on the planet at the moment, whether their records are arriving three times a year, or only every three years. 

The Myrrors sound is one of urgency, but urgency not beholden to velocity. From the twelve-minute “Arena Negra” title track that opens the album (by slowly slithering out of the ground and into the air), to the twenty-minute inhumanly heavy album closer, “The Forward Path,” it’s immediately apparent that the band has captured completely the sound of shackles being shed. “Arena Negra” comes on strong, as clearly, evenly and undeniably as the very light that enters your eyes, fueled by a heroic dose of Bardo Pond-esque levels of elevation and amplification.

“Arena Negra” is – both by turns and, miraculously, all at once – dramatic, reflective, ecstatic and otherworldly. It’s the work of craftsmen and the cosmos, equally, dialed-in to accurately reflect immensity and awe.

“Arena Negra” by The Myrrors is released March 25th by Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records. It’s stunning.

 

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