Posts Tagged ‘Ganglian Reef’

WAND – ” Stolen Footsteps “

Posted: July 11, 2015 in MUSIC
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A new Song taken from the LP/CASS/CD “1000 Days” by Wand, due to be released September 25th, 2015 on Drag City Records. New Wand aloft!  Wand manufacture a little life within an elaborate craftwork of sound amongst the endless social contrivances of popular music .On their Drag City debut, 1000 Days, Wand move restlessly and gracefully through different divergent phases of music in a single passage of a song. This is how they make their music. Recorded in their hometown of Los Angeles and San Francisco, 1000 Days finds Wand searching in corners and finding extra texture via synthetic animation. The atmosphere is quicksilver and the space acoustic; as a beacon sparks electric, a cascade of hi-fi noises for everyone’s ears – raucous, impassive, inevitable musical expressions.

1000 Days is Wand‘s third album in what can only be called the relative blink of an eye, and their best album too. August of 2014 saw the release of Ganglion Reef, Wand‘s debut album release on God?. Following that, they ranged from their south-Cali base playing shows of all kinds home and abroad. And suddenly, it was March of 2015, with a second album entitled Golem trailing Wand‘s sound farther down the road. No time to spare; more dates to be played across the landmass. And another set of European dates later, 1000 Days. is out September 25th and available for pre-order now; sneak a peek at the first song revealed from 1000 Days here titled Stolen Footsteps.

WAND – ” Ganglian Reef “

Posted: April 11, 2015 in MUSIC
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Wand  next EP release titled “Golem”
When’s it out? April 6th
LA’s Wand impressed with their debut album ‘Ganglion Reef’, which was inspired by a make-believe island. On ‘Golem’ they mix sludgy Black Sabbath-riffs with howling psych vocals to surpass that first record with flying colours.

Ganglion Reef (2014) is by los Angeles Psych garage rock band Wand this is their debut album, released on Ty Segall’s record label, “God?”

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please also check out the Wands from Copenhagen 

 

WAND – ” Self Hypnosis in 3 days “

Posted: April 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Add Wand to the list of bands best realized as a live act. Not to disrespect their two most recent albums, this year’s Golem and last year’s Ganglion Reef, both fine efforts in the lazily-named “garage-psych” canon that add the band’s wizards-and-warlocks imagery to the mix of guitar pyrotechnics and punk urgency that characterize, to some degree, the efforts of regular tourmate Ty Segall and others. Heard in the vacuum of headphones or home speakers, alone, it’s too easy to lump them in with the other bands whose names you know and move on.

But live, there are clearer nods to the band’s actual influences: Rainbow, T. Rex, Bowie, early period Zeppelin — some of the bands that influenced the much-derided L.A. “glam” scene of the 1980s. Wand owe a very much larger debt to these bands than their contemporaries, and that’s not a bad thing. In fact, the glammy sensibility Wand brings to the table serves as a reminder that the wholesale death of the L.A. scene at the hands of grunge was a bit of a throwing out of the baby with the bathwater. If those seventies touchstones can be blamed for giving us Poison and Warrant, it’s worth remembering that the better attitudes they embodied were being unafraid to have style or show off how well you can play, and to make each performance a true performance. Wand may not wear makeup or tight clothing, but their show brings with it some of that theatrical feel that makes them stand out.

WAND – ” Flying Golem “

Posted: June 22, 2014 in MUSIC
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Los Angeles four piece band WAND with psych tinged guitar riffs and sun bleached melodies this track from the forthcoming album “Ganglian Reef” released on GOD records they support Ty Segall through his mid summer tour.