Tell me about Subarachnoid Space, Landing, Surface of Eceon, and artists of their ilk.

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Please.

I am interested in exploring the contemporary Further Out and am wondering if this is where to start, and if so, if there's more to it.

Thanks.

― old sauk, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

Search in this order:

-Landing Sphere and the first EP or so. More or less the "Slowdive" component of this.
-Surface Of Eceon Draggyn (not sure of the spelling here). Basically it's Landing + one or more Yume Bitsu people (Ned will have the exact details). Instrumental "space rock" that mines the same territory that every band did in 2000.

I can't recommend any Subarachnoid Space albums, but go see them live if they come through town. Substantially better than the albums and draws more from the Acid Mothers/kosmiche/farfreakout well.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

Basically it's Landing + one or more Yume Bitsu people (Ned will have the exact details)

I see I've already been summoned! But I'd have been here anyway. Landing are all sweet folks and deserve yer attention. I would say search their excellent KUCI performance but you can't because only they and I and a couple of other people have copies and they're not for sharing, sorry. It's Adam from Yume who is in Surface, but Adrienne from Landing does not play with Surface. Subarachnoid absolutely brilliant live, have yet to hear the new album but soon.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oh yeah, sites:

http://www.landingsite.net/

http://www.surfaceofeceon.com/

http://www.kpunk.com/yumebitsu/

http://www.subarachnoid.com/

I loved it, it was much better than Cats, etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oh, and while I'm at it, Kinski urgent and key:

http://www.kinski.net/

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

And Bardo Pond:

http://threelobed.com/bardo/

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

endless renovation is excellent

― f-a-b-o-l-o-u-s (adamwest), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

Thanks. Would it be possible to recommend Bardo Pond and Kinski starters? I am looking more for trippy and ethereal than heavy and droney, though heavy and droney I don't mind. Ignore if I am putting you on the spot; I already appreciate all the information shared.

― old sauk, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Listening to Subarachnoid Space's The Red Veil and it's killing me, I want more. Is Almost Invisible the one to go with?

old sauk, you might want to try Bardo's Lapsed (trippy and ethereal AND heavy and droney at same time!) and Dilate. As for Kinski, Don't Climb On and Take the Holy Water is an ambient jam that takes some getting used to but is also trippy and ethereal. Mostly trippy, though.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

You stoner. Oh wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

paik is one of the best bands in this vein... touring now (or soon?) with subarachnoid and not to be missed live.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

Aargh! They're playing just when I'm out of Chicago! At least I don't have to go to the Empty Bottle again.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

My favorite SubArachnoid is These Things Take Time which is a massive jam. Landing's Sphere is better, I think, than Seasons; I haven't heard much Yumu Bitsu and have avoided Surface of Eceon because from what people have said on this thread & elsewhere, I don't think I'd like em.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

6 years pass...

So yes, Landing. New album due later in the spring!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 January 2012 21:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

Good news! I was hoping they were still going. I happened to notice the other week that their back catalogue is up on bandcamp now:
http://landing.bandcamp.com/

The old stuff is name-your-price. Hmm, maybe I should take it to the name-yr-price bandcamp thread...

― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 27 January 2012 21:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

New Landing record is great. Very poppy at times, but still retaining their mastery of atmospheric guitar tapestries.

Tons of good stuff on the Bandcamp too. There are still copies of Gravitational 2 available as well...highly recommended instrumental trips.

And, they just posted that they were releasing an additional 12" of new material later this Fall/Winter.

Yeah...one of my favorite bands.

― dronestreet, Friday, 21 September 2012 02:32 (8 months ago) Permalink

is Paik still around?

(maybe I should revive the Orson Fader thread)

― ^loves belaboured seething (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 21 September 2012 05:35 (8 months ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

Nice rerelease here

http://landing.bandcamp.com/album/passages-through

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:23 (2 months ago) Permalink

This: http://www.discogs.com/Kinski-Paik-Surface-Of-Eceyon-Crickets-And-Fireflies/release/506299 is highly recommended. The kinksi track inexplicably kinda sucks, though. The rest is absolutely top notch spacey as hell ambient rock.

― brimstead, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:07 (2 months ago) Permalink

Beyond SubArachnoid Space:

http://eightbells.bandcamp.com/

― Nate Carson, Friday, 8 March 2013 22:15 (2 months ago) Permalink

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