Twenty minutes each from Colonia, NJ's Sky Stadium and Chicago,
IL's Potions. Sky Stadium (Jeff Roman), fresh off of great 2011
releases on Monorail Trespassing, Bridgetown, Goldtimers and more,
offers six tracks of truly beautiful and warm synth ambience.
"Gatefold" and "A Vision So Close" are unique and true space
soundscapes with enough texture and depth to mix well with the thick
layers of synthesized melody and powerful drones on the rest of the
side. Listen to "Right Now" on the sampler below. Potions (Tom Owens)
has made a good name for himself on the local Chicago DIY scene with
his improvised live performances and ability to cover a lot of ground
stylistically with the Potions moniker. "Booby Trap" is a squiggly and
rhythmically tight jam that moves into the darker and deeply psychy and
mesmerizing "Mars Castle" (listen below). "Lazy River" is a great
example of Potions' ability to bring together a beat-oriented song
structure, bordering on pop music, into the realm of ambient synth work
and more loose improvisations.
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