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Artist: Liquid Zen
Website: magnatune.com/artists/liquid_zen
Track Name: Elements At Loop 10
Playback: mp3/flash
Download?: Yes

Today’s pick is from the ever entertaining Magnatune catalog.

Lets start with the hype…

Known for an opulent synthesis of vocals and electronics, Roland St. John Perez takes a “no deadline” approach to making music, and the result is an exotic, atmospheric sound that touches on everything from Pink Floyd and T Rex to Brian Eno and Tangerine Dream. Elements at Loop 10 was composed and recorded at Perez’s San Antonio studios and features guest appearances by vocalist Holly Nelson, James Sidlo of Honey Barbera fame, as well as the blissed out guitar craft of Damian Rodriguez.

There is so much stuff here that sounds old and familiar… and it’s not, Liquid Zen (Roland St. John Perez and Damian Rodriguez) are based in San Antonio, Texas, and have produced, composed, and performed on a collection of albums including the latest, “Seventy Three”, Mosaico ? “Magic Midsummer”, and of course Liquid Zen. There is a lot of craft evident in this music. They chose not to work to a deadline (this can be deadly to your output) and just take their time with the various projects.

I’ll be honest, I have had this album playing in the background for about an hour or two and picked the title track “Elements At Loop 10″ almost at random, you really need to check out the whole album at magnatune.com/artists/albums/liquid-elements/ and then press the buy button.

A really enjoyable find.. and best of all, there are another two albums for me to listen to. Going well isn’t it?

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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