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2009): As the lady days; “turn on your lovelight with 4 Zero Records”... “Sci-Fi Hi-Fi” is Earthling Society’s audacious soundscape
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Download a full length version of ‘Sci-Fi Hi-Fi’ here, and ‘Tempel ov Flaming Youth’ here |
Earthling
Society - “Sci-Fi Hi-Fi” – FZ006 Speakers play alien comm
in static slate grey hum. DIY antennae through broken windows tune into
lysergic frequencies. Earthling Society have, with
their new album, tried to fly higher than pilots have flown. Six journey
songs reveal a glorious new far out paranoid phase for the group. More
progressive and kraut-informed than before. Calling to the night owls with
their urban late night drives and desert trips. Liquid synths
and flying saucer guitars play a different kind of space rock. It's the space
between your ears where the lotus wheel suspends. turning
and turning, never ends.... Now it's time... Crack open a can of UBIK, sit back, relax and turn on the SCI-FI
HI-FI Track Listing: Sci-Fi Hi-Fi, Tempel of Flaming Youth, EA1729, The Lantern, A Future
Dream, E.V.I.L.U.S.A. “Earthling Society are back with their fifth album
and this one is even more killer than the previous outings”… 5*, Lowcut “seven sprawling head trips exploring inner space”… 4*,
Record Collector, August 2009 This album features artwork
by contemporary artists Fiona Shaw; due for release on 20th July
2009. For further details please see the release sheet. |
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Download a full length version of ‘Tenement Song’ here, and ‘Sundropped’ here |
Earthling
Society - “Beauty and the Beast” – FZ005 A fusion of West Coast psychedelia,
acid folk, and Krautrock – recorded in their
hand-built analogue studio - “Beauty
and the Beast” is Earthling Society’s fourth album… A farewell to their more
obvious space rock leanings, instead they have drunk deep from the well of
visionaries such as Syd Barrett, Todd Rundgren, Kevin Ayers and John Cale.
Twelve string acoustics replace the heavy monotonous riffs that are
associated with modern day psychedelia. Autoharps,
harmonies and mellotrons weave in and out of
concise kosmiche hymns. Earthling Society have created a
psychedelic sound that reflects the other side of the mirror or a playroom
steeped in summers dusk. “A strong contender for modern psychedelic album of
the year”… Hawkwind biographer, Ian Abrahams Track Listing: Drowned World, Candlemass,
Tenement Song, Sundropped, untitled, A Modest Flower,
The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes, The Moonlit Road, Valerie A Tyden
Divu, A Playground mystery For a track by track analysis read the Roadburn
Festival studio report which includes an in depth interview with
guitarist/singer Fred Laird. “… an uplifting floating relaxed psychedelic acid
folk thing”… Organ “Another wonderful CD containing ten effervescent
songs”… Starship Overflow’s CD of the week “A very interesting step in a new direction and
quite successful”… Aural
Innovations “Give your head a treat”… Peppermint
Iguana “simply a gorgeous and expansive release”… Blogs San Diego “a very mystical, spiritual and magnificent album…
one of the best albums of the year”… Psychotropic
Zone “An excellent blend of song and free-wheeling
psychedelic buccaneer spirit”… Jerry Kranitz, Roadburn “a wilfully bedazzled tumble through bright '60s
acid rock, bucolic '70s heat waves and one of the first worthwhile updates of
unadulterated, melodic psych since the '80s Paisley Underground”… Jambase “not just a good album - it was, well, how should I
put it? Mind-blowing”… Progressiveworld.net “Sink back into a beanbag, pass the joint and set
the volume and bass to max”… Rock’N’Reel “a beautiful mix of bucolic
bliss and garage raunch”… Shindig! “an excellent addition to the catalogue of 4Zero
Records… 92/100”… Concrete
Web “their finest album to date”… Terrascope Online “another solid album from the Earthling Society”… Dutch Progressive
Rock Page “An album which I will come back to for sure”… Prog
Archives Another release with
fantastic artwork by Stacie Willoughby, released 6th May 2008. For
further details please see the release sheet. A track from this album,
“The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes”, was included on the covermount
CD of the May/June issue of Rock’n’Reel magazine,
and the Summer issue #22 of “Under The Radar” magazine. |
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Download a full length version of ‘Theatre’ here,
and ‘Ways To Be Free’ here |
Here & Now –
“Coaxed Out From From seventies free festival jam band… thru space
punk floating anarchists with Daevid Allen (as
Planet Gong) … thru reggae infused eighties indie space rock… thru nineties
psychedelic trance… to present day warped techno-retro with members of Eat
Static and Ozric Tentacles… Here & Now, along
with Hawkwind, are one of the most influential
space rock bands in the This release is a lovingly re-mastered version of
their self produced tape, “Coaxed Out from “A splendid documentary of one of the best live acts
of the era at the height of their power”… Rock’N’Reel,
January 2008 Track
Listing: 23 Skidoo (4:28), Heart Of
The City (3:43), The Mega Number (5:50), Salvador (3:21), Ways To Be Free (5:43), Theatre (4:28),
Heartbeat (5:25), Fantasy Shift (4:15), Secrets (9:45), Opium For The People
(5:17), Glad You’re Here (4:49), Bonus Tracks: Last Chance (6:39),
Stoned Innocent Frankenstein (2:44), Jimmy Mac (7:14) "Space cadets will swoon”… Hugh Fielder,
Classic Rock, September 2007 “… absolutely describes their spirit: all spacey
atmospherics, chanted lyrics and cranium-expanding bass lines”… Ian Abrahams,
Record Collector, October 2007 “They smoothly blend psychedelic space rock with
punk and dub”… Peppermint
Iguana “…captures that space and time, that spirit of the
age, that great coming together of hardcore activist punk rock and the
(sometimes misguided chaotic) ideals of anarchy and free-festival
free-thinking creativity”… Organ “excellent re-mastering revealing a sparkling set of
tunes crackling with energy”… Terrascope Online “Coaxed Out from “one hell of a live space rock album”… Progressiveworld.net “In summary, an outstanding set”… Aural
Innovations #38 Limited edition of 1000
copies with super psychedelic artwork by Stacie Willoughby. Released on 22nd
October 2007. For further details please see the release
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Download a full length version of ‘gas, grass or
ass’ here,
and ‘electric muse’ here |
Alison Faith
Levy & Mushroom – “Yesterday, I Saw You Kissing Tiny Flowers” – FZ003 Space rock / psychedelic jazz groovers
join forces with acid folk singer/songwriter Alison Faith Levy, known for her
own albums (with members of Camper Van Beethoven) and as a member of the Loud
Family (featuring Scott Miller of Game Theory). With Mushroom, Alison soars
soulfully into another realm - that one reviewer described as "The Space
Rock Eartha Kitt.".
This release is culled from their best live performances plus some fantastic
studio material – all previously unreleased. Track
Listing (click symbol for sound clip):
Electric Muse (2:25), Josh Pollock (11:05), Clay Alison (6:00), gas, grass or
ass – nobody rides for free (5:19) "Levy shows her ability to seduce and smoulder...
singing is strong and soulful in the mould of the ladies of West Coast
psychedelic scene"… Nick "…kick off your
sandals, pull on your dancing feet, raise your freak flag and lose your
inhibitions to this pulsating throb monster”… Terrascope Online “From lullaby gentle, to extrapolated electric blues
grooving, moody slow motion torch songs, to percolating polyrhythmic Miles
Davis-like funk jazz”… Dream Magazine,
#8 “heady, trippy mishmash of
songs so genially, stimulatingly weird that you'll want to open your own “psychedelicatessen”… Mark Keresman,
East
Bay Express “dreamygauzysexycool”…
Fred Mills, Harp
Magazine July/August 2007 “Krautrock that swirls and
undulates like an oil projection…” Josh Potter, Jambands.com “Always ambitious and artful, dispatches from
Mushroom-land are welcome any time” Jesse Jarnow, Relix Magazine August
2007 “the sound of their city,
San Fran, in past days becomes their focus”… Dave Cantor, Rock-A-Rolla Jul/Aug 2007 “Levy reminds me enough of Grace Slick to make this
sound like a postmodern, not to mention postrevolution,
Jefferson Airplane”… Tom Hull, Jazz Consumer Guide “… sexual drench and curtains of smoke”… Progressiveworld.net “Great CD for the musically adventurous” Lowcut
Magazine “Alison becomes a member of the band, her voice
acting as another instrument in the ensemble, perfectly integrating into the
Mushroom sound” Aural
Innovations #37 “An acquired taste, but one that is extremely
rewarding” Concrete
Web “Krautrock west-coast
Velvet Underground glam jazz with a bit of PJ Harvey and Mazzy
Star” Fred@E-Society “… washes of free jazz, grunge and electronica and what sounds like rhythmic sidewalk
spitting”… Signal To Noise #47, Fall 2007 “Here is a
collaboration that could have been made in Heaven”… Ian Abrahams, Spacerock Reviews “Levy fits right into the Mushroom ethos, a spirited
jazz-meets-groove improvisational attack”… Expose,
#35 “draws a direct line between 60s San Franciscan
experimentalism and present day jam band discourse” Mitch Myers, Downbeat, January 2008 “ethereal loose-form psychedelia
as defined by Daevid Allen-era Gong, pre-Meddle
Pink Floyd, and Limited edition of 1000
copies in six panel digipak with stunning artwork
by Nat Russell. Released 26th May 2007. For further details please
see the release
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Preview and download this song free at Indiestore
(mp3, aac, wma) |
Alison Faith
Levy & Mushroom – “Gas, Grass Or Ass – Nobody Rides For Free” – FZ002
Track Listing (click symbol for sound clip): Gas, grass or ass - nobody rides for free
(5:20) Limited edition of 100
copies. Released 5th February 2007. Copies available to DJs and
reviewers. Free downloads available to all… and free to anyone who bought a
CD direct from us (but there’s none left now). |
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Mushroom – “Really Don’t Mind If You Sit
This One Out” – FZ001 “Here’s a listen to the first year and half of
Mushroom’s career, including 2 songs from their first gig ever. Since those
days, during the past 8 years, they’ve taken so many paths – from funky jazz
to soundtracks to acid folk – but in retrospect it’s those first few years
that are the most visceral and vibrant. Take off your face and recover from
the trip you’ve been on – you know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good”
– Calvin Tennett, WBAI Radio Eastbayexpress thought ‘Really Don’t Mind..’ one of the best
records of 2006 Track
Listing (click symbol for sound clip):
Klonopin (17:57) , Kyle loves a funny bunny
(10:48) “The music undulates like a Frank Gehry building”… Jambands.com “Quality, high-energy strangeness presented by
musical heavy hitters” jambase.com “Excellent space rock excursions… a wonderful
inferno of passion and intensity”… Terrascope Online “A hearthrobbing,
head-rattling, improvisational jam session… A fine introduction to this
wonderful bands’ humble beginnings”… foxy
digitalis “Mushroom are one of the greatest space rock/Krautrock/jazz rock oufits
you’ve probably never heard of”… All
Music Guide “A windfall for those who enjoy sounds to get lost
in”… jazzreview.com “An absolutely killer stretched out jamming, rocking
and grooving space/kraut/acid-psych/jazz combination”… Aural
Innovations “Killer stuff that takes you on a trip” … LowCut
magazine “lengthy, sprawling percussionscapes
that lurch all over the musical horizon”… Concreteweb “A most welcome release”… Expose, #34 Limited edition of 1,000
copies. For further details, please read the release
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can buy CDs direct from 4 Zero Records. If you live in the Listen (and download for free): Earthling Society:
Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Sci-Fi Hi-Fi (8:24 / 12.6 MB) Earthling Society:
Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Tempel ov Flaming Youth
(10:42 / 15.3 MB) Earthling Society:
Beauty and the Beast: Sundropped (5:37 / 7 MB) Earthling Society:
Beauty and the Beast: Tenement Song
(4:59 / 7.4 MB) Here & Now:
Coaxed Out From Oxford: Theatre (4:28 / 6.7 MB) Here & Now:
Coaxed Out From Oxford: Ways To Be Free (5:43 / 7.6 MB) Alison Faith Levy
& Mushroom: Yesterday I Saw You Kissing Tiny Flowers: Electric Muse (2:25 / 3
MB) Alison Faith Levy
& Mushroom: Yesterday I Saw You Kissing Tiny Flowers: gas, grass or ass (5:20 / 7.3 MB) Mushroom: Really
Don’t Mind If You Sit This One Out: My Brain Hurt Like A Warehouse (8:36 / 7.9 MB) Earthling Society: Roadburn Festival 2007: Outsideofintime, Kosmik Suite No1 Earthling Society: Eastern Haze 2007 Earthling Society: West Coast Rock Cafe 2009: Wromg Mushroom: Live in San
Francisco, 1998 Here & Now:
Dingwalls 2007: Dreadfool Dub, Crazy World Here & Now:
Sonic Rock Festival 2005: intro, Telly Song, Crazy World, Fire in the Sky, Love of this World Future
Releases: Our next releases will be a new album by space rock stalwarts
Here & Now, and an “Indian raga/drone/folk-rock” epic by San Fran pysch groove masters, Mushroom. The Mushroom album was captured
in exclusive sessions in 2007; the final preparations and track sequencing
are now complete, and the artwork is just starting. Check back regularly for further details of these and other
forthcoming releases. Or drop us an e-mail to receive regular updates. 4
Zero Records was formed in 2006 to release the best in pysch
and space-rock music, from innovative bands with a track record of studio and
live performance. If you have an idea for a release that you think we ought
to consider then drop us an e-mail
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