First Encounters, by Spiral Wave Nomads

First Encounters

by Spiral Wave Nomads

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midoyle61 It's experimental but holds together with melody and bursts of color within some very interesting soundscapes. An enjoyable "find" on Bandcamp. Favorite track: Radiant Drifter.

CTHankster Mind melting contemporary improvised psych jams by this duo. Drummer Michael Kiefer and guitarist Eric Hardiman lock into each other's wavelength and conjure a blissful sense of ringing, chiming electric space travel.

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1.	Evidence of New Gravitation 13:17	buy track
2.	Fitful Embers 05:34	buy track
3.	Radiant Drifter 05:13	buy track
4.	Of a Similar Mind 13:49	buy track

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"The four tracks on First Encounters are wonderfully explosive, difficult to predict and utterly mind-melting. Just the thing to soak in during what looks to be a hard-ass winter. Spiral Wave Nomads' music reminds us that spring will eventually blossom again." --Byron Coley

The sophomore effort from Spiral Wave Nomads was recorded live one afternoon in the pre-pandemic halcyon days of the summer of 2019. Despite the geographic distance between their respective bases of Albany, NY and New Haven, CT, Kiefer and Hardiman's collaboration started in 2018 after becoming label mates on the These Are Not Records imprint. They spent the better part of that year getting to know each other over digital pathways and recording their self-titled debut--a collection of asynchronous improvisations and extended psych jams--by file-sharing, collecting layers of convergent truths along the way. This time around, they wanted to see how their ideas would come together in an unscripted live setting. "First Encounters" documents the first time Kiefer and Hardiman ever met in the flesh and played music together in the same room. With no plan to speak of, no talk of what it should sound like, it's a testament to the magic that happens when two seasoned improvisors trust each other and let it flow.

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released January 1, 2021

Eric Hardiman - guitar
Michael Kiefer - drums

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