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The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Smoking Acid E.P
- Format: 12" EP
- Catalogue Number: AUK016LP
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: a records
- Release Date: 25 May 2009
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PRICE: £14.99
Alternative Formats
Smoking Acid E.P
The Vinyl of this brand new EP is work of art collaboration between Anton Newcombe & Icelandic artist Jón Sæmundur Auðarson the double 12" EP consists of 5 new tracks by the Brian Jonestown Massacre & double sided etched disc by Jón Sæmundur Auðarson .This is stricly limited to 1,000 Units worldwide. The CD is a single 5 track CD but with the same superb cover art as the LP .
After the extensive tour of Europe ,Australia , New Zealand & a few select dates in New York State (especially ATP supporting My Bloody Valentine et al ) in 2008 , Anton went to Berlin to focus on his next album ,which is due out later this year.
4 weeks before hitting the US tour in April ,Anton was bursting with ideas & went to Iceland where this 5 track EP was recorded (also along with several new tracks that will be out on the new album).
Brian Jonestown Massacre has been somewhat of a musical commune for many respected musicians over the years, a band from the 1990’s that has spurned other great bands ever since. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Warlocks, The Silver Rockets, The Black Angels, The Ravenettes, The Dilettantes, Ride (to name a few) are all part of this musical family tree.
Indeed, this is a band that has witnessed many incarnations, since its inception in San Francisco in 1995. Two‐dozen band members later and numerous “ups and downs” (some have been famously sensationalized in the media), the one thing that has always remained consistent for this psychedelic‐cult‐like‐collective, is front man Mr. Anton Alfred Newcombe. Originally Newcombe was heavily influenced by The Rolling Stones' psychedelic phase - the name
comes from Stones guitarist Brian Jones combined with a reference to cult leader Jim Jones, but his work in the 2000s has expanded into aesthetic dimensions approximating the UK Shoegazing genre of the 1990s and incorporating influences from world music, especially Middle Eastern and
Brazilian music
