Aaron Snow (Seabearde) - Guitar Adam Forkner (((Lyfeforce))) - Guitar Daron Gardner (Sephryn) - Bass Dick Baldwin (Dragyyn) - Guitar Phil Jenkins (Eceyonic Man) - Drums Track Listing: Stolen Wind - Council is Called - Over Land, Over Ice - Victory of Ice and Magyk - By a Curious Vessyl - Freeing the Winds Surface of Eceyon is about liberation. Comprised of members from somnolent drift-rock bands Landing and Yume Bitsu, plus the neo-Kraut percussive invention of drummer Phil Jenkins, Surface of Eceyon immerse themselves in what they call "The Vessyl", a point of blurred time/space in which their collective subconscious mind yawns open and just lets those synaptic floodgates go, emitting a primordial ooze of delicately raw, improvised psychedelia. The tape rolls, the journeys are documented, and the results are downright beautiful. After the drone-gaze heights achieved on their debut The King Beneath the Mountain (Nov. 2001), Surface of Eceyon hone their craft with their second album Dragyyn, a fantastic new batch of spontaneous sonics set to reinterpret the underground space-gaze scene yet again. Dragyyn is brimming with tonal explosions and color washes, where introspective passages explore cinematic lullabies and overdriven psyche-rockers spiral like fireballs. This is minimalist improvised psychedelic rock of vast and subtle complexity. With a roar like a lamb, Dragyyn provides evidence that Surface of Eceyon is one of today's most achieved improvised drone-rock bands.
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