Ballistic Dreamscape
myspace.com/wherethecamefrom
Winter in Chicago is humbling. Subzero winds and impossible snowfalls lead even the best of us to booze, fish fries, and B movies on VHS. And when Dave Vandervelde started crashing on the couch at the Moon Tower there was plenty of all that. But there was also this: an epic Saturday jam, mics hot in the frigid garage, Dave joining up with the Moon boys for hours of meandering, experimenting, and mind-expanding. A year, 300 overdubs, and hours of editing later, that psychedelic Saturday was chiseled, bent and fired into this Psychedelic Saturday.
Tracklist: (Right-click to download)
01 Psychedelic Saturday (36.5MB MP3)
Notes:
Recorded and produced by Matt DeWine with additional production and engineering by David Vandervelde.
Recorded at the Moontower in the dead of winter 2006.
Mastered by Jonathan Pines with Matt DeWine at Private Studios.
Live Freak Jam Players:
Robbie Hamilton — drums
Johnny Caluya — guitar
Matt DeWine — bass
David Vandervelde — keys
Overdubs:
David Vandervelde — flutes, bells, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, vocals
Matt DeWine — air organ, SK5, big muff, bass
Damien Thompson — percussion
Bill Lowman — delayed acoustic guitars
Brad Galagher — delayed acoustic guitars
Cover art by Steve Bindernagel.
Polyphonic Psychedelic Classics
www.myspace.com/wherethemooncamefrom
The first time I saw Where the Moon Came From, they were playing catch in the middle of the street. And taking their sweet time to get out of the way of my car. Four dudes, all long hair, jeans, and cowboy boots, I’m thinking “you gotta be kidding me.”
Twin of Pangaea is like that except the guys are tossing bass amps and guitars and an Echo Plex and an old reel-to-reel and harmonies and huge choruses and another Echo Plex. But damn, they can’t catch for shit. The bass rig goes clear through someone’s bay window and the tape machine dents a bumper and I’m watching this thinking “you gotta be kidding me,” until a guitar solo comes screaming my direction and dings the windshield sending spiderweb cracks through the safety glass before shattering apart. One of the longhairs shrugs, “sorry man.” There’s glass in my damn eyeball but I say “that’s alright, it sounds good, man. It sounds good.” Because it does.
Track List (right-click to download):
Pangaea Pt. One (5.5MB MP3)
We Dove Into the Sunrise (9MB MP3)
Rabblerouser (6.7MB MP3)
Baptized In The Ditry Water (9.6MB MP3)
Moonbows (3.2MB MP3)
Suckle From the Starlite (7.5MB MP3)
Pangaea Pt. Two (6MB MP3)
Musicians
Matt Kelly - Vocals
Johnny Caluya - Guitar, Vocals
Robbie Skye Hamilton - Drums, Vocals
Matt DeWine - Bass
Additional Musicians
Casey Meehan - Organ
Damien Thompson - Percussion
Bill Lowman - Upright Bass
Brad Galagher - Acoustic Guitar
Linsay Anderson - Vocals
Recorded by Chris Kralik at Lying In States / Watchers practice space, Chicago IL
Additional Recording by Matt DeWine and Johnny Caluya at Moontower and Pieholden Suite Sound, Chicago IL
Mixed and Mastered by Matt DeWine and Jay Bennett at Pieholden Suite Sound, Chicago IL
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