Artist...............: Spacemen 3
Album................: Dreamweapon
Genre................: Indie
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1988
Taking off from the ideals which form the core of La Monte Young's concept of "dream music," the heart of Dreamweapon is "An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music," a transfixing 40-plus-minute document of a landmark Spacemen 3 performance recorded at Waterman's Art Centre in Hammersmith on August 19, 1988. Perhaps the purest expression of the Spacemen aesthetic, the piece is an unbroken tapestry of hypnotic drones, throbbing tones, and repetitive phrases, dappled here and there by evaporating fragments of the melodies which later resurfaced on Playing With Fire. The cumulative effect is one of utter disorientation -- all notions of time and space quickly give way to complete conscious immersion in the music's narcotic tug. A pair of epic rarities, Sonic Boom's feedback sculpture "Ecstasy in Slow Motion" and "Spacemen Jam," round out the package.(Jason Ankeny - All Music Guide)
Tracklisting
1. An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music
2. Ecstasy in Slow Motion
3. Spacemen Jam
Playing Time.........: 01:09:31
Sympathy For The Record Industry - SFTRI 211 -
1. AN EVENING OF CONTEMPORARY SITAR MUSIC 43:30 (full-lenght version)
Recorded at Waterman's Art Centre, Hammersmith, 19th August 1988. Sonic Boom: Vox Starstreamer; Jason: guitar; Will Caruthers: bass vibrations; Steve Evans: Guitar; Pat Fish: joint rolling.
2. ECSTASY IN SLOW MOTION 10:00 (first time on CD)
Recorded at V.H.F. Studio Rugby, spring 1987. Sonic Boom: all noises.
3. SPACEMEN JAM 15:00 (previously unreleased)
Recorded sometime in 1987. Sonic Boom: Fender Jaguar; Jason: guitar.
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