The Flying Eyes are a heavy,
psychedelic rock band hailing from Baltimore, Maryland. Since they
formed in 2007, the group has opened
for such renowned bands as The Raveonettes, The Black Angels, Dead
Meadow, Witch and Dan Auerbach of
The Black Keys (during SXSW 2009). The Flying Eyes have also created an
annual, home-grown music
festival, called Farm Fest, in Manchester, Maryland. They will
co-headline Farm Fest 2010 with The Morning After
Girls and An Albatross. In November of 2009, they released a full
length compilation of their two EPs ("Bad
Blood" and "Winter") on German label Trip in Time/World in Sound
Records and toured Europe in Summer 2010 in support of the album.
Nothing to Say is in every aspect a glorious release that can be warmly
recommended for all those who enjoy psychedelic, trippy, heavy and
rocking music (Psychotropic
Zone)
***
It’s an all-consuming psychedelic journey that the band are
determined to take you on ... (Sonic
Dice)
***
"Nothing
To Say" is retro without the posturing, noisy without being abrasive
and active without actually going anywhere it doesn’t need to
go. A
satisfying cut of South
American experimentation from a band easily worth
dropping out for. (The
Obelisk)
***
There’s some real
headtrip adventures going on here (and it’s nice to
hear South America’s take on Spacerock); I liked this one a
lot. (Ian
Abrahams' Spacerock Reviews)
***
SERPENTINA SATELITE shouldn't be missed by space respectively kraut fans
but is also interesting for lovers of heavy psych and even stoner rock. (Progarchives.com)
***
Nothing
to Say, like the best recordings of its kind, is then marred by
freedom;
guitar solos shoot out in all directions just at the right speed
to carry off the songs with them. (Deaf
Sparrow)
***
We all fell in love with this
disc immediately and have been playing it
regularly
for weeks without its charm and artistic merit dimming one
iota.
(Sound
Fix Records)
***
I was quite impressed with this
new Peruvian space rock band
and look forward to the next CD. Great stuff! (Concreteweb.be)
***
An enjoyable, spacey and lively
debut from both band and label. (Musique
Machine)
***
Krautrockers, Spike-a-delick
Metal Heads & Garage Numbskulls alike
will most likely donate mucho braincells in exchange for a copy of
NOTHING TO SAY,
the breathtaking, furiously paced (and All Purpose)
Ambient Buzzsaw
debut album from Serpentina Satelite. (Julian
Cope, Head Heritage)
***
Serpentina Satelite delivers the
goods as well as the best of the
current crop of Space-rock bands and surpasses many of them because
they do draw from earlier influences and are willing to change their
sonic assault from time to time. (Progressive
World)
***
Be ready for the images that
will come to your mind if you close your eyes while listening to this
piece, and be aware that your senses will perceive everything around
you in a totally different way. And you will be thankful.
(Cuba Underground)
***
The
music is a heavy mix of space rock and hard psych similar to something
like Acid Mothers Temple, Comets On Fire or Future Kings Of England.
The rhythm section has a nice early Pink Floyd vibe with drums that are
reminiscent of Nick Mason. (Progressive
Ears)
***
Hypnotising spacerock in a powerful
fashion, like Hawkwind used to play. ...mouths shut, turn on
the volume and let's space! (IO Pages)
***
"Nothing to
Say" is a disc which -beyond its beauty- also proves that music is ONE and has no
boundaries, and whoever respects Pink Floyd's work must compose
sometime his
own "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun". Serpentina
Satelite did that with "Nueva Ola"song and showed us their big skills. After all,
they did have something to say, even though they do not admit it... (rocking.gr)
***
It's a great record
and it has some of the
coolest guitar playing, fuzzy, hypnotic, with a wide degree of
dimension. It's a must for guitar players, audiophiles,
and psych heads.
All in all a very
spacey album, the bulk of the music being lively, though there are also
some dreamy soundscapes that will send you off to the stars! (Starship
Overflow)
***
South
America is
quickly becoming one of the greater sources for Heavy Rock.
This time around, Peru's Serpentina
Satelite is
the impressive act making its way from the Southern hemisphere to my
most highly rated MP3's. (Music
Emissions)
*** A
mysterious psychedelic trip with no lyrics but with much whispering
vocals that reminds the mystical atmosphere of the 1971 album "Crawling
to Lhasa" by German prog band Kalacakra. Slow torturous riffs that
sometimes become fuzzy with a noisy feedback. (TimeMazine)
***
Space-,
Kraut-, Stoner- und Post-Rock werden von
den Südamerikanern
zu einem trippigen, treibenden, zum
Glück nie hippiehaft verspielten
psychedelischen Gesamtwerk
verquickt
(OX! Fanzine)
***
Serpentina
Satelite betreten Pfade, die die hierzulande bereits bekannten La Ira
De Dios geebnet haben. [...] Der Opener Nueva Ola ist dezenter Space
Rock mit eleganten Keyboards und bemerkenswerten Drums, die an das
wirbelnde Schlagzeug in Klaus Schulzes "Friedrich Nietzsche"(vom
"X"-Album) erinnern. (Eclipsed Rock Magazin)
***
Phreak
out, yeah! Das hätte Peter Fonda und Dennis Hopper 1967
gefallen. (Metal-District)
***
Die
Platte ist ein Rundumschlag von allem, was dieses Genre hergibt und
auch noch verdammt gut in Szene gesetzt. (Rock
Times)
***
Alle
Psychedeliker, die das Ableben der LIQUID VISIONS nur
schwerlich verkraftet haben, werden hier jedenfalls glänzende
Augen bekommen. (Hooked
on Music)
***
Eine total zugedröhnte,
freakige aber irgendwie ultracoole Platte. (Musikreviews.de)
***
Ein
weiteres Highlight im Programm des deutschen Psychedelic-Labels Trip in
Time. (Generated X)
***
Kommune
1 ist
ein großartiges Schauspiel und ein manchmal
beängstigender Jam durch die Abgründe der
späten Sechziger [...]
besser kann man Zeitgeschichte kaum in Musik fassen.
(Home
of Rock)
***
Knackiges
Psych Rockalbum mit viel Kraut und Space-Elementen.
Fans von Hawkwind, den frühen Floyd oder auch Bands der
heutigen Zeit
wie z.B. der Band from Outaspace liegen mit den Peruanern goldrichtig. (musik
an sich)
***
Nie
sind Serpentina Satelite technisch, nichts an ihren Songs ist
ausgeklügelt komplex oder knifflig arrangiert, sie lassen die
virtuosen
Ideen wie schwere Schallwellen in die Weite boxen. Die Wirkung ist
einzigartig. Zwei Seiten hat jede Sekunde. Diese schwebende
Leichtigkeit innerhalb des epischen Flusses und die nervöse
Hektik, die
diesen Fluss vorantreibt. Kratzige Düsternis hüllt
die Ideen der Band
ein, ahnungsvolle Schwere, die dem Album, der EP, eine mystische,
unergründliche Note gibt. Psychedelisch!
(Ragazzi
Music)
***
„Nothing
To Say“ ist ein gutes Psych-Rock-Album, das vor allem durch
seine
treibenden Rhythmen fesseln kann. Mit „Nueva Ola“
startet man einen
Trip, von dem man erst nach dem letzten Ton von „Kommune
1“ wieder in
die Realität wechselt.
(Musikzirkus-Magazin)
-
EMBRYO -
LIVE AT BURG HERZBERG FESTIVAL 2007
(CD)
Embryo and the Burg Herzberg Festival is a long
story. Forty years ago, when the first
one happened in the old castle, Embryo was there. After that
performance they even got robbed, a blue painted violin and a good amp
were gone forever. In all the years following, the festival got bigger
and changed to a different place to find room for the growing audience
and stages. Embryo played there many times in different line-ups. This
performance was a sort of chill-out act for the whole festival. The
nucleus of this band (Jens, Lothar, Mik. Marja, Christian) had grown
through all the many years on tour to a steady line-up, supported by
five other friends: on trumpet is Werner, who was introduced by Mik,
one of the few good oboe-players around. On guitar Valentin
Altenberger, whose father is a modern jazz drummer and mother a jazz
singer who grew up in the family of Bobbie Jones, known for his work
with Charles Mingus. On oud and guitar is Andy Rust who knows much
about Indian culture and has been with Embryo for many years. The third
electric guitar is played by Björn Eric Münz from
Ensemble
Orient-Express, also good friends of Embryo. On percussion is Norbert
Keck who had been playing with the band almost on almost all of the
Herzberg gigs in the last years. This CD presents a rawer electric set
by Embryo (because the wet and cold wind at the festival weekend made
it too hard to tune the acoustic instruments!)
1.
Marja's 7 (26:22) 2. Do
you know what time it is (25:58) 3.
Freakstage transformation (24:12)
Recorded
live at Burg Herzberg Festival 2007 Mixed
and Mastered by Matthias Schaeuble at Perplex Tonstudio, Walldorf Produced
by Trip in Time in cooperation with Embryo, 2008
Als
stimmungsvoller Abschluss des diesjährigen Kultfestivals folgt
auf der
kleinen Freakstage der Auftritt von Embryo,
den
ewig
tourenden Worldmusic-Pionieren um Urgestein Christian Burchard.
Diesmal in 10-köpfiger Besetzung auf engstem Raum spielen sie
sich vom
begeisterten Publikum angefeuert zwischen lang dahin
fließenden
orientalischen Improvisationen und wilden
Gitarrenloopings
in einen regelrechten Soundrausch hinein. (POP
FRONTAL) **************************************************
feat.
Electric Mystical Soul Vibration
(UK),
The People (SWE), Ginger (CH),
Jenda Wight (USA), Jarvis Jay
(AUS),
Fuzz Manta (DK), Mother And Sun (SWE), Psychoine (ES),
The
Magnificent Brotherhood (DE),
Crystal Caravan (SWE), Living Room (DE),
The Flying Eyes (USA), Black Box Massacre (DE), Serpentina Satelite
(PER),
Aqua Nebula Oscillator (FR), Space Debris (DE), Fantasyy
Factoryy (DE), Zaphire Oktaloque (DE)
