Brendon Thompson
Smoking Spore CD
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Smoking Spore CD -Like a quartet of characters from some undiscovered Dr. Seuss book, Houston-based SMOKING SPORE skips, jumps, waddles, and trips their way through completely improvised psychedelic epics. The band refuses to write, relying only on instinctive short-term memory to weave a different sonic composition every time they play. To solidify the experience, they film bizarre local phenomena and air them via projector during concerts.
This album contains the entire second jam session of Smoking Spore, recorded live-in-studio by Dugong Recording, Inc. in Spring, Texas. Engineered, mixed, and mastered with no overdubs, edits, second takes, reamps, drum replacement, quantization, or other frivolous foolery. The track titled “Hard Drive Explosion” was cut short by a sample rate error, but we salvaged what we had.
“Their debut effort 'Conversations In D-Minor' (2009 on Ground Sloth) was recorded in less than two hours. The album contains the entire second jam session, recorded live-in-studio. It melts seventies-inspired acid rock with Southern stoner grooves, infectious guitar melodies, piercing feedback, and modern effect-laden ambience. Since their debut, the band has incorporated a hearty buffet of new effects, an old organ, and some home-made oddities that look like they came from a mid-sixties sci-fi flick.” -progarchives.com
“After putting my head into this disc, I must say I am completely blown away. To imagine these guys in the studio just "going for it" with no overdubs or second takes is mind-boggling; it sure doesn't sound that way. The end of track two when the hard drive poops out, is cool and obviously unintended, I bet it wasn't cool when it happened, but it totally coincides with the theme of the band. It also appears as the live show is a mind enhancing night out. These guys are tight like spandex. Fans of Colour Haze and Earthless take note. Highly Recommended.” -Planet Fuzz
This album contains the entire second jam session of Smoking Spore, recorded live-in-studio by Dugong Recording, Inc. in Spring, Texas. Engineered, mixed, and mastered with no overdubs, edits, second takes, reamps, drum replacement, quantization, or other frivolous foolery. The track titled “Hard Drive Explosion” was cut short by a sample rate error, but we salvaged what we had.
“Their debut effort 'Conversations In D-Minor' (2009 on Ground Sloth) was recorded in less than two hours. The album contains the entire second jam session, recorded live-in-studio. It melts seventies-inspired acid rock with Southern stoner grooves, infectious guitar melodies, piercing feedback, and modern effect-laden ambience. Since their debut, the band has incorporated a hearty buffet of new effects, an old organ, and some home-made oddities that look like they came from a mid-sixties sci-fi flick.” -progarchives.com
“After putting my head into this disc, I must say I am completely blown away. To imagine these guys in the studio just "going for it" with no overdubs or second takes is mind-boggling; it sure doesn't sound that way. The end of track two when the hard drive poops out, is cool and obviously unintended, I bet it wasn't cool when it happened, but it totally coincides with the theme of the band. It also appears as the live show is a mind enhancing night out. These guys are tight like spandex. Fans of Colour Haze and Earthless take note. Highly Recommended.” -Planet Fuzz