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The 7th release from this exceptional Los Angeles experimental community rock band, featuring dual drums, dual guitars, and Fender Rhodes, instrumental music with unconventional rock structures of intricate and weaving lines and surprising twists and turns. |
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Save $1.20 Out of Stock Shipping Weight: 2.00 units Quantity in Basket: None Log In to use our Wish List ![]() UPC: 616892226048 Label: New Atlantis Catalog ID: NA-CD-019 Squidco Product Code: 20574 Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2015 Country: USA Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Infrasonic by Eric Palmquist, and Record Plant by Daniel Zaidenstadt. Personnel: Mark Kimbrell-drums Dylan Fujioka-drums Noah Guevara-guitar Paul Lai-guitar Patrick Shiroishi-rhodes, saxophone Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist. Highlight an instrument above and click here to Search for albums with that instrument. ![]() ![]() Artist Biographies: • Show Bio for Patrick Shiroishi Patrick Shiroishi is a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist & composer based in Los Angeles. Solo SaxophoneUpsilon Acrux (w/ Noah Guevara, Dylan Fujioka, Mark Kimbrell & Paul Lai) Corima (w/ Andrea Calderon, Paco Casanova, Ryan Kamiyamazaki & Sergio Sanchez) In the Womb (sax-drum duo w/ Dylan Fujioka) Oort Smog (sax-drum duo w/ Mark Kimbrell) Nakata (sax-piano duo w/ Paco Casanova) Sunreader (w/ Paul Carter & Ethan Sherman) Hoboglyphs (w/ Henry Barajas, Jason Rodriguez & Jeeshaun Wang) Black Sun Sutra (w/ Noah Guevara, Rob Magill, Ken Moore & Sergio Sanchez)-Patrick Shiroishi Website (http://www.patrickshiroishi.com/bio.html) 1/25/2023 Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography. ^ Hide Bio for Patrick Shiroishi ![]() 1. Pitch Mountain: Maps 6:18 2. Death Before Disharmonic 6:26 3. Smells Kline 4:05 4. Never Don't Give Up 3:47 5. Hey Motherfucker You Ever Fuck with a Salvadoran?! 2:43 6. Dogshit on the Shoulders of Giants 3:23 7. Or Gnaw: Cult Men 1:13 8. Remnants of the Habitable Epoch 5:55 9. Old Dusk Seas: Odyssey 14:20 |
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![]() "The 7th LP from legendary avant-prog unit, Upsilon Acrux! Upsilon Acrux will pillage your stereo field, butting coruscating, contradictory lines of unequal measure against explosive percussion, compelling resolutions, and intricate melodies. Boasting a revamped lineup of dual drums, dual guitars, and Fender Rhodes, the group delivers a massively propulsive, wildly asymmetric takedown of conventional rock structure. Heralded for their "paradoxical mix of intricacy and immediacy" by PopMatters, virtuoso guitarist Nels Cline once noted that "Upsilon Acrux makes some of the most detailed compositions I have ever heard." Longtime fixtures of the Los Angeles experimental music community, their approach to instrumental rock music is unique, stellar, and sweeping. These sounds are burning, stoked by angularity, mania, and profound mastery of the balance between beauty, tension and release. Like a blossoming, expansive cult, Upsilon Acrux have had roughly twenty different members work and play in eleven different iterations of the ensemble, of which seven have made records. The band maximizes the impact of its present configuration by dividing and deconstructing its lines, passing rhythms and melodic fragments through its rank. Even at their most brutal and challenging, the music is elegant, with each member working in tandem to realize and articulate bafflingly complex gestures with fluidity. The record was tracked at Infrasonic in Alhambra, CA, with overdubs recorded in the so-called "Appetite for Destruction" room at the storied Record Plant in Hollywood. Despite having shared the stage with a diverse range of noteworthy and fantastic groups, including the Locust, Dillinger Escape Plan, Blonde Redhead, Yowie, the Peter Brotzmann Quartet, Man is the Bastard, Cheer Accident, Zs, The Fucking Champs, Henry Kaiser, Don Caballero, Child Abuse, Ruins, the Flying Luttenbachers, and many others- Upsilon Acrux make and destroy cities in the time it takes most bands to cross the street for coffee."-New Atlantis Also available on vinyl LP.![]() The Squid's Ear! ![]() Rock and Related Progressive Rock Quintet Recordings Staff Picks & Recommended Items New in Rock Forms Search for other titles on the label: New Atlantis. |