Artist.......: Photonband
Album........: Back Down To Earth
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Dec-23-2007
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. Back Down To Earth 03:04
02. Ka-blammo 02:14
03. Thinkin 'Boutchoo 04:42
04. Where Did The Love Go? 03:41
05. Your Doubt, Your Truth 03:47
06. Whatchagonnado? 03:49
07. Cry, Crycrycry 04:56
08. Just Between Me And You 04:19
09. Last Call, Bad Night 03:26
Runtime 33:58 min
Size 42,6 MB
Release Notes:
While playing guitar for the Lilys in the late fall
of 1993, Art Di Furia picked up his favorite
astrology mag, Welcome to Planet Earth, and read
about a "band of photonic matter" that will envelop
the earth and change consciousness forever. It
seemed to Art that this explained everything: music
of all kinds had been filling his head lately.
Sometimes, he'd hear a lyric or a melody. Sometimes
he'd hear an entire song with full instrumentation.
His dreams featured unreproducable sounds with
corresponding colors, and visitations from Jimi
Hendrix, Syd Barrett, John Coltrane, and Sun Ra.
He had already begun filling tapes with these
ideas. Now he began labelling them, "Photon Band".
But what to do with all this music? He couldn't
bring it to the Lilys. That would always be Kurt
Heasley's gig. In the summer of '94, Art left the
Lilys to form the Photon Band with Heasley's
blessing.
To make his inner musical visions real, DiFuria
snared astronomer / professional weirdo Simon Nagel
to play drums. Soon, chain-smoking ne'er-do-well
Jeff Tanner had conned his way into bass-ing for
the band.
The rest is an unending sonic adventure. The trio
began to gig, and DiFuria kept writing and
recording. So far, the results are five full-length
albums and a harvest of singles and comp tracks
revealing an eclecticism that continues to expand
like the universe itself. The Photon Band's early
tunes sounded like the Beatles with the Who's
rhythm section. But by the time of their
full-length debut (1998's All Young in the Soul
(Darla)), they had incorporated influences as
disparate as Buddy Holly and the MC5. Expansion
continues.
It's no accident that the Photon Band's last two
albums feature the words "Alone" and "Lonely" in
their titles. DiFuria recorded both by himself.
2001's Alone on the Moon, and 2003's It's A Lonely
Planet (both on Darla) are so filled with
hallucinogenic solitude that they make Syd Barrett
sound like a stable, upstanding citizen.
However, on the Photon Band's new album, DiFuria
has abandoned the solitude of outer (and inner)
space to come to terms with this world.
Appropriately titled Back Down to Earth, the new
album features eight outside musicians, more than
on any previous Photon Band effort, including N. E.
Farnsworth III from Bardo Pond, Dmitri Coats of the
Burning Brides. The results are the bluesiest,
heaviest, most soulful Photon Band ever. Hendrix's
ghost haunts most of the songs, especially the
upbeat trio of songs that start the album. But by
the time we reach the blue-eyed soul of the Track
4, "Your Doubt, Your Truth", and the Monkee'd-up
Motown of Track 5, "Where Did the Love Go?", easy
answers are in short supply. Of the remaining cuts,
even the uplifting sounding "Whatchagonnado?"
offers no solutions. Things don't end pleasantly;
on the album's closer, "Last Call, Badnight", it
sounds as if our initially optimistic hero has come
"back down to earth" in the worst of all possible
ways. After a drunken ballet of twitches and
stumbles, he has collapsed with a dazed thud.
While our hero may be down, he's certainly not out.
There can be no doubt that as he dozes, he's
dreaming up tunes for the next Photon Band album.
In 2004 Eric began a relationship with Empyrean
Records for the purpose of the long awaited
re-issue of the Cardinal record. Out of this
project grew the opportunity for Eric to begin
making new records again under the Empyrean label.
In 2005 Eric released his third solo record,
entitled "Six Kinds of Passion Looking For An
Exit," and in 2006 another album entitled
"Foundation Sounds." In the summer of 2006, Eric
announced that he and a guitarist from Cleveland
named Christopher Seink had formed a new
instrumental recording band called Seinking Ships.
Collaborations/Guest musicians include: Richard
Davies, Jason Falkner, Spookey Ruben, Elliott
Smith, Gregg Williams, Tony Lash, Robert Harris,
Christopher Seink, Mark Eitzel, Lou Barlow, Bob
Fay, and Steven Hanford.