Stargazer

Stella Luna | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 16, 2002)
• Original Release Date: July 16, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Allegro Corporation
• ASIN: B00006HGZY
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #456,969 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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About the Artist

Primarily influenced by pioneering guitar-based bands of the 80s and early 90s - Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine - Stella Luna are continuing in the tradition of textured guitar experimentation. The group has developed their own sound into dense guitar washes and sleepy, dream-time vocals. This high volume affair combined with grinding bass guitar, electronic sampling, and tight knit percussion promises a true listening experience as well as a disarmingly powerful live show. The group has a lengthy history - one almost too long to describe in detail. Veterans of the Northeast Florida music scene, the band's members were once a part of local Jacksonville press darlings and East coast tour meisters The Kryppies ('94-'97), Boyette, and Peel. (*NOTE: Formerly known as Northeast Florida's STARBELLY, tour meisters The Kryppies ('94-'97), Boyette, and Peel. (NOTE: the group changed its name to STELLA LUNA last Autumn due to the fact that several other groups in the U.S. were already sharing the Starbelly title.)

Product Description

Summer 2002 ushers in the debut release by stateside guitar atmospherists Stella Luna. The 4 song EP will be a precursor to their full-length follow up later this year. Our outer space explorers completed the project at Retrophonic Studios with 35 year recording veteran Jim Devito. The EP was recorded entirely analog to tape through all vintage recording equipment, using only tube gear, tube mics, and vintage amplifiers to achieve a very big - warm expanse of sound. A non-stop voyage from the shattering opener "Change" and intensely cinematic "Stargazer" to the swirling, organ-like Leslie guitar tones of the sci-fi "Antares" and the climaxing album closer - "A Bridge to Nowhere". The sounds heard on the Stargazer EP via understated drums, percolating analog synths, wildly-effected guitars and the layered vocal bliss of Hanson and Smith all combine to create a feel for the future, one of space, and of beauty... a true listening experience.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful. Just... beautiful., April 30, 2003

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sfobos (Massachusetts, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stargazer (Audio CD)

Holy moley. With only four songs, Stella Luna have created one of the towering works of shoegaze and dreampop. Each piece washes over the listener in great shimmering waves of echo and delay, revealing a depth and precision of execution that instantly stands with the best of Slowdive (think Just For A Day), Ride (Nowhere) and Adorable (Against Perfection). It's heady territory for any band's debut EP, and I can only hope their forthcoming full-length (due summer 2003? winter 2003? ever?) gives us more of the same. But even if they've already achieved their high-water mark... man, what a mark it is.