LEVITATION ROOM, Thee ALLYRGIC REACTION, La BOOGIE BUENA, DJ Andrew
McGranahan @ SODA BAR In Los Angeles, where the weight and pressure of
the city’s fast paced culture can make your legs feel like pillars,
emerges psychedelic quartet, Levitation Room, to break the bonds of
gravity with their cosmic wall of sound and thought provoking lyrics.
“Just as their name suggests, Levitation Room’s music instills the
listeners ears with a light feeling of floating. The dreamy guitar and
Lo-Fi projections of psychedelic rock and garage are reminiscent of a
deep 1960’s era, but still grounded in an alternative dreamgaze
flavor that permeates modern indie music today.” - OC Weekly. Their
decidedly hallucinogenic songs whisper and hum the same gentle refrain
of their summer of love influences, conjuring up the cognitive imagery
of sunny days at the park, spent with friends in a euphoric haze along
with lyrical and sonic meditations on life, love, society and
self-awareness.
In tradition, and much like the bands and musical troubadours that
inspired them, Levitation Room started out with late night jam
sessions in a dimly lit garage between fellow musicians and long time
friends, Julian Porte and Gabriel Fernandez. Julian, a dedicated
street musician who felt he needed a broader platform, found chemistry
with Gabriel, who he knew as a guitar player in various teenage punk
and garage bands around town. Coming together in 2012, they bonded
over a shared love of British Invasion groups (The Beatles, The Kinks,
The Rolling Stones) and 1960’s psychedelic outfits like The Grateful
Dead, Electric Prunes, The Pretty Things and began drafting their
earliest tunes. It wasn’t until the late summer of 2012, that the
band came to fruition when they found a rhythm section in two
individuals with almost identical names; drummer, Johnathan Martin,
and bassist, Jonathathan Martin. The four began writing songs, playing
gigs and recording music out of a quaint studio in East LA.
After the release of their self recorded demo “Levitation Room Vol.
1”, they quickly began gaining momentum and performing at local
music venues throughout Southern California. 2015 saw the release of
their first official debut EP “Minds Of Our Own” released on
Burger Records. Later in the spring of 2016, they released their first
full length album, “Ethos”, with the help of their friend and new
keyboardist, Glenn Brigman, who recorded and helped produce the
record. Since 2014, Levitation Room has participated in various shows,
tours and music festivals across the US and Europe and continues to
see the growth in listeners and followers on YouTube, Soundcloud and
Spotify (with nearly 2 million plays on their song “Friends”).
With the promise of a potentially bright future, Levitation Room has
begun to mix and finalize their second album that they hope will
display their process of maturity in sound and song- writing,
exploring new territories of influence in music and instrumentation,
combining folk, jazz, raga, soul, pop and of course… psychedelia.
Stay tuned!
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