(NIGHT 2) **LEVITATION ROOM + LOS BLENDERS (Mexico City Surf/Punk) +
THE CROOKED RUGS** **\*\*COSMIC DOMMY VISUALS\*\*** 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! Presented by Hi-Dive. This is a 21+
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