mindwave||||||space waves: 2013

Friday, December 6, 2013

End of year update

Dear Internet, a lot has been happening in our little corner of the world so here's an update, which I guess will be the end of year update for us.

2013 has mostly been very busy for us recording-wise. We released a second full-length album (You can ride a beam of light like a musical strum) and we finished recording our third full-length, titled Sing My Song. We will finish mixing Sing My Song in January at Jackpot! Studios in Portland, Oregon with Larry Crane. He also engineered the recording of the album, making it the first album that we did not record ourselves (by 'we' I mean Kelley). So I guess that makes it our first official studio album? Well that's kind of exciting.

We also moved back to southern California after being back in Oregon for two years. We are very happy to be back in SoCal and have recently started playing out around here. We have two upcoming shows: Friday, December 27th at Silverlake Lounge at 10pm and Thursday, January 2nd at Que Sera in Long Beach as part of Press Play's "New Year's Hangover" night.

We are working on a new song that reminds me of some Spacemen 3 tunes. We also have a cover song project in the works.

We hope that next year we will be able to get some of our stuff on vinyl for the first time. We have "You can ride" mastered for vinyl already. We are very eager for that to happen! It will truly be a dream come true.

2014 will mark our 6th year as a band. We started recording original songs in December of 2008, so it has been pretty much exactly five years since we started. In general we try to do as much as we can with what we have. We hope to tour more, especially to the east coast and we'd love to go back to the midwest. But we have to live in the confines of reality so we'll see what actually comes about, and when. We feel very lucky to have pulled off what we have so far, and to have found the right people to work with. We are very thankful for what support we have gotten. Here's to the new year!

Links: Our second album can be found on Soundcloud here: http://www.soundcloud.com/spacewavesss

Our first EP and album are on bandcamp: http://spacewaves.bandcamp.com

We have a few music video up on Youtube too.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Album release shows, album!

we are venturing out into the world again this summer with some album release shows. so far we have:
June 14th at the Doug Fir in Portland, Oregon with Spirit Lake and Thomas Mudrick + (((Boing))).
June 16th at Chop Suey in Seattle with Golden Gardens and Jetman Jet Team.
August 10th at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco with Tomihira + tba.
Working on something for LA too. Ok! We ordered CDs and will be getting them in a few days. They will be super limited and available at our shows. If you really want one and can't make it to our shows maybe we can figure something out!

Friday, February 8, 2013

End and SunMoon demos up on Bandcamp

We put up demos of two songs, "End" and "SunMoon," that will be up for a short while on our Bandcamp page. We just wanted to share what we have been working on lately! These will be on our third album. http://spacewaves.bandcamp.com/album/space-waves-lp3-demos

These were recorded by Kelley in our home studio with Mark Loftin on drums, Kelley on guitar and vocals, and Sarah on bass guitar and vocals. Drums and guitars were played live all together.

In other news, we are waiting on artwork for our second album, You Can Ride A Beam Of Light Like A Musical Strum. We are also planning a European tour for late summer and will announce our Portland album release show soon, and hopefully get this album out soon!

Thankssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

http://spacewaves.bandcamp.com/album/space-waves-lp3-demos

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Info on our new album

You Can Ride A Beam Of Light Like A Musical Strum is the second full-length album from Space Waves, to be released in 2013. The core duo of Sarah and Kelley Bourland are joined by Mark Loftin (Foxtail Somersault, Morning Spy, Shawerma) on drums for this album. Drums, bass, and initial guitar tracks were all recorded live by Kelley over a weekend, with additional guitar, vocals, flute and tenor steel pan added later. In this spirit of capturing a live performance, two previously released songs, "Shadowtree" and "In the Shadows," were re-recorded for this album. The title of the album was received during a communication with Sarah's childhood cat through pet psychic Laura Stinchfield on her radio show.

Personnel:

Kelley Bourland - guitar, vocals

Sarah Duni Bourland - bass guitar, vocals, flute, tenor steel pan

Mark Loftin - drums

Recorded by Kelley Bourland.

Mixed by Larry Crane at Jackpot! Recording Studios in Portland, Oregon.

Mastered by Garrett at Tree Lady Studios in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Tracklisting:

1. Turns

2. Snakestone

3. Bud's Theme

4. Eat the Shadows

5. Surprise

6. Stealin Time

7. Blue

8. Underworld

9. Shadowtree

10. In the Shadows

11. Vuelve

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

For Adam H. of Pehr, Pehrspace, Timonium

I'm writing this for our friend Adam Hervey, who last week at the age of 36 suffered a brain stem stroke. He is in the hospital recovering right now, and thank goodness his recovery is going well! I (Sarah) met Adam back around 2003 when I was music director at UCLA's radio station. He ran a record label called Pehr and he had sent the station a sampler CD of some different releases on Pehr. I really liked it and after looking at their website saw they were looking for interns. I ended up interning there and working there after college for awhile. Adam is also in a wonderful band called Timonium, which has been around since the 90s, if I'm remembering correctly! I was lucky to go on a US tour with them as their tour manager, and see such exotic locales as Fargo, San Antonio, and Wichita. During the time I worked at Pehr, I remember Adam talking about opening up a venue. Lo and behold, he did so a couple of years later, the all ages, non-profit music and art space Pehrspace. If that's not visionary then I don't know what is. Aside from his great love of music and community, Adam is just such an amazing, wonderful person. Anyone who meets him will tell you that. I have so many good memories thanks to him. I even started playing music again after meeting another Pehr intern and starting a band with him and some friends, after not playing any instruments in college. That was when I started playing bass at my friend's prompting, which I still play. And my bandmates got involved with Pehr and Pehrspace and still are. It is just crazy the domino effect that happens. Anyway, I am very grateful for these experiences and I have Adam Hervey to thank!

Some of Adam's friends set up this page to help him with donations for anyone who would like to donate. I researched it online and it seems legitimate, but if you are interested in donating I'd research it first to make sure you feel comfortable. Don't take my word for it! http://www.giveforward.com/friendsofadam

Here are some links to Timonium songs/videos and other Pehr related artists:

My old band Seven Times on the Sea

A Pehr band called Arco. I totally remember this song "Aliens". I forgot how much I like this band!

Other bands on Pehr were Delaney, Grimble Grumble, Picastro, Mt. Analog, Languis, Sir, Empress to name a few. Lots of great music that I still love. And, wow, most of them you can't find on YouTube, imagine that. :)
Here's wishing Adam Hervey the best recovery possible.