Outsound Presents3 sets of psych guitar drones
--Metal Rouge (LA via New Zealand)
--Higuma (Bay Area)
--Sam Hamilton (New Zealand)
Metal Rouge started in Auckland, New Zealand with no aim but to open ourselves to the spontaneous psych tonalism running through the underbelly of popular music like a pure vein of lightning. We opened ourselves to the river, and now our only aim is to let that river (free)flow.
Higuma is Evan Caminiti (of Barn Owl) & Lisa McGee. Cast in a dark space in SF, Haze Valley holds rather true to its name, filling the edges with smoked out vocals, guitar delays and any number of drone layered acoustics. Very much a distant sound, with distortions burnished down to smooth horizontal planes that lift the music to higher summits. Not at all dissimilar from some of Barn Owl's recent excursions, but with the addition of Lisa's vocals, this goes somewhere else completely. (From Root Strata Records Website)
Sam Hamilton's website is
http://www.myspace.com/samhamilton0
Cost: $6-10 sliding scale