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Levitation Room (Los Angeles, Ca)
In Los Angeles, where the weight and pressure of the city’s fast-paced culture can make your legs feel like pillars, emerges psychedelic quartet, Levitation Room, to break the bonds of gravity with their cosmic wall of sound and thought-provoking lyrics. “Just as their name suggests, Levitation Room’s music instills the listener's ears with a light feeling of floating. The dreamy guitar and Lo-Fi projections of psychedelic rock and garage are reminiscent of a deep 1960’s era, but still grounded in an alternative dreamgaze flavor that permeates modern indie music today.” - OC Weekly. Their decidedly hallucinogenic songs whisper and hum the same gentle refrain of their summer of love influences, conjuring up the cognitive imagery of sunny days at the park, spent with friends in a euphoric haze, along with lyrical and sonic meditations on life, love, society, and self-awareness.
In tradition, and much like the bands and musical troubadours that inspired them, Levitation Room started out with late-night jam sessions in a dimly lit garage between fellow musicians and long-time friends, Julian Porte and Gabriel Fernandez. Julian, a dedicated street musician who felt he needed a broader platform, found chemistry with Gabriel, whom he knew as a guitar player in various teenage punk and garage bands around town. Coming together in 2012, they bonded over a shared love of British Invasion groups (The Beatles, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones) and 1960’s psychedelic outfits like The Grateful Dead, Electric Prunes, The Pretty Things, and began drafting their earliest tunes. It wasn’t until the late summer of 2012 that the band came to fruition when they found a rhythm section in two individuals with almost identical names: drummer Johnathan Martin and bassist Jonathathan Martin. The four began writing songs, playing gigs, and recording music out of a quaint studio in East LA.
After the release of their self-recorded demo “Levitation Room Vol. 1”, they quickly began gaining momentum and performing at local music venues throughout Southern California. 2015 saw the release of their first official debut EP, “Minds Of Our Own,” released on Burger Records. Later in the spring of 2016, they released their first full-length album, “Ethos”, with the help of their friend and new keyboardist, Glenn Brigman, who recorded and helped produce the record. Since 2014, Levitation Room has participated in various shows, tours, and music festivals across the US and Europe, and continues to see the growth in listeners and followers on YouTube, Soundcloud, and Spotify (with nearly 2 million plays on their song “Friends”). With the promise of a potentially bright future, Levitation Room has begun to mix and finalize the second album that they hope will display their process of maturity in sound and song- writing, exploring new territories of influence in music and instrumentation, combining folk, jazz, raga, soul, pop, and of course… psychedelia. Stay tuned!
https://levitation-room.com/
https://levitationroom.bandcamp.com/album/headspace
Secret Family
Secret Family is a collection of friends born over time/underwater, on the beaches and in the doghouse of minds. Cody James and Greg Friendly have been playing for many years in flooded basements, tight porches, in unknown lands, together. Many lives lived with many different cats. On old four tracks songs became, then those songs lay dormant, dusty cassettes in cardboard boxes migrated from one room inside to another. In the hour of the garbage truck, friends are what brought it to life, friends and reflections, unknown legends on amaro, exposed to milky ways. Those new smells/reopened boxes. The feral nature of new/old pals spanking drums, diming the mids on old amps, noodling to remove the death capacitor on the march toward nothing/everything. Levi “Councilman” Counts and Reese “The Real Piece” Kolar mimic heart-beats, snare champions with actual smiles. Sheena “LaBobby” Dham and Lionel “Loinal” Foster foster the bang, the bump, the life, a guide in the woods of songs and correctional confidence. In union they rock for whomever, game for whatever in a time of whatever in the land of whatever. Secret Family emits songs of innocence AND the shadow of experience: moonbeams, real and false summits, endless beach, and the superbloom highways of your future child's refrigerator doodles. Somewhere west: orbiting the heart of the Bay and a Montana prairie lies Secret Family. Jonesing for a little more time, a little more tape, a little more sleep, and one more bounce. Taste like always, rock ‘n’ roll forever, rock ‘n’ roll for whomever; again and today.
https://secretfamilyband.bandcamp.com/album/secret-family-ep
https://www.instagram.com/secret_family_time/
