MAGIC LANTERN – s/t – LP

Description

“MagicLantern came into being at the mid-point of the decade, sparked
into existence by a simultaneous period of musical discovery for Philip
French, William Giacchi, and Cameron Stallones. Inspired by the
psychedelic approach to musical tone and structure in various eras and
genres of rock (not at all excluding Germany and Japan in the ’70s), the
three realized they ought to make use of the new creative tools they’d
stumbled upon, and began jamming the summer away in twin poles of Long
Beach and Whittier, CA. Over the course of a year they recorded every jam
and compiled a full-length’s worth of home-studio demos which later became
their self-released CD-R. At the same time, each member was developing
solo and side projects to channel parallel universes of sound. A year
after their first jam together, MagicLantern decided to make the leap to
playing live and recruited good friends and like-minded musicians Chip
Knechtel and Gavin Fort to be their marathon rhythm section. The jams from
their CD-R were used as the blueprints for the band to develop a raw,
stripped-down sound that emphasized hypnotic rhythms and improvised guitar
duels. After being invited to play at the Tee Pee Records showcase
“Manifest Destiny” in August of ’07, th’ Lantern kept up a steady diet of
shows in LA and Long Beach for the next year, earning a local following
and two highly limited tapes on Not Not Fun Records. Through the spring of
’08 they began writing new material as a band and developing the new songs
live. In the summer they recorded these jams with sound wizard Bobb Bruno,
which led to the Not Not Fun LP High Beams that September. At this point
the band had fully emerged from transition into a shared creative vision
of five musicians, each possessing a singular voice, all united in the
common goal to engage both mind and body through good vibrations.”