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High Watt Electrocutions

Maximum minimalism

About Me



All of our "Night Songs" tracks are also available through ITunes, as well as Rhapsody.
"Plugged into electric instruments, they take us to the outer expanses of our minds. It frees our souls, loosens the hinges and unwinds. A cosmic radiant light in a vision that's true. Like a fly in amber, forever distilled in an ominous hue."

Reviews of "Night Songs":

All Music Guide, (3 1/2 stars out of five):"Using a music store's worth of instrumentation, the album's moods are varied; its tracks admirably suggest specific "times" (10pm, 11pm, etc.). The overall feel, though, is '70s psychedelia. Fuzzed-out electric guitars, delicate acoustic ones, primal drums, and moody keys bob and weave in various combinations..... The production pans instruments in unusual locations; this is a soundtrack, not a collection of songs. Around five in the morning, the album brightens somewhat. Wickedly pulsing washes and acoustic jangles lead to gorgeous clean tones and winsome noodling. The denoument feels indefinite, woozy, like waking up from a strange dream."-- Cosmo Lee, All Music Guide

"Night Songs is a concept album in the classical sense, presenting an esoteric epic that has no fixed storyline, but follows the events of one long and strange evening, as each track has a traditional song title and an exact time of night.....They’re all about textures and feeling, and when there are vocals, they’re often buried in the mix under the swirling fuzzed-out guitars, strings, percussion, and other layers of sound.....The recommended setting for Night Songs is a long dark night of solitude and heavy drug use; at that point, it should all make sense."--Joel Geraghty, Stoner Rock

"Fans of Black Sabbath, Hawkwind, and acid should dig this. Night Songs is pure, 100 per cent uncut psychedelia.... there's nothing immediate about this album. These long, slow songs require a dedicated listener, but it's a very satisfying ride if you can survive it" (A minus rating)-- Jared Story, Uptown Magazine

"Spacemen 3 drone and Stooges feedback mindblenderfuck. Sweltering throbbing summer sex like mechanical robots pounding hipbones like well lubed oilrigs. Festering for eternity until the music stops.... Only recommended for elitists who actually get good loud music."--Chris Duda, Sugarbuzz Magazine

"On their debut full-length recording, the Winnipeg-based High Watt Electrocutions offer an impressive range of neo-psychedelia and space rock songs that resonate for miles. At close to 70 minutes in length, Night Songs does pose demands on a listener's attention span but its dense layers are well worth exploring and returning to for repeated listenings. With this recording, High Watt Electrocutions convey an excellent comprehension of how to spin musical repetition into hypnotic cascades of sound."--Rob Nay, Exclaim! Magazine

Price per "Night Songs" cd: $10 dollars CDN. Shipping+ handling extra. All cds are shipped out in protective bubble mailers, via airmail (light packet). Payment methods accepted: PayPal / ECheck, cheques, cash, money order.


Shipping/ handling (including bubble mailer, airmail, all prices in Canadian funds):Within Canada: $2.50 CDN
To the USA: $4.50 CDN To the UK: $7.50 CDN
Other areas: shipping available worldwide, contact privately for totals.

Local inquiries: cds are now stocked at Music Trader in Osbourne Village, CD Plus on Ness, and Into The Music.

Anyone interested in promos for review or radio play, please contact us privately. All non-MySpace inquiries can be directed to [email protected] .

"Cerebral Drift"--a 25 minute noise/ sludge/ drone track, limited to 100 copies--hand signed and numbered--in four different colors (blue, yellow, red, green). $5 dollars CDN. All performances are live and improvised, stepping into the true musical oblivion. There's a four minute soundclip on the MySpace player.
Full cds and songs also available individually through Nimbit ($.99 cents per track), as well as cds ($9.99) and digital album ($7.99).


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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/28/2006
Band Members: Guitars, drums/ percussion, bass, organ, synth, orchestras, piano, vocals, glockenspiel, etc.
Influences: We like all the classic and current psychedelic/ heavy/ drone/ protometal/ experimental/ damaged classic rock bands that you'd expect us to, and a whole lot more. Main influences--fuzz, electricity, great bands, great producers, Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Stooges (first two albums moreso), Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, High on Fire, Comets on Fire, Sunn O))), Blue Cheer, Godflesh, Suicide, detuned sludge rock, Phil Spector, plus traces of Joy Division and Velvet Underground, as well as obscure classic rock (Love, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Michael Yonkers) etc.
Sounds Like: Cavemen beating on mammoth hides and logs whilst jamming on electric instruments while Phil Spector oversees the carnage.....
Record Label: Instrospection Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Night Songs is now carried at StonerRock.com

Night Songs is now available at StonerRock.com--if you order from there, let me know and you can get the next upcoming album on coloured vinyl for the reduced price of $10! It's weird--the art is bei...
Posted by High Watt Electrocutions on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:58:00 PST

Cosmic Electricity--a network for fans of space rock

http://cosmicelectricity.ning.com/I created this network, because I felt that there's a lack of a presence online where people can go that like genres of space rock, psych, stoner rock, experimental, ...
Posted by High Watt Electrocutions on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PST

Update: John Golden is working on the masters....

I got a call from John Golden, and he's working on the masters for "Headphone Opuses"---he's listened to them and then made some suggestions. He said that we should have the masters by Thursday or Fri...
Posted by High Watt Electrocutions on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:55:00 PST

The Fender 140 and its rarity...

My main amp has been a Fender 140 for about 4 or 5 years now, and I didn't realize how rare it is. Apparently it cost $1685 in 1980 ($1685 is a huge chunk of change for today, let alone 28 years ago....
Posted by High Watt Electrocutions on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:35:00 PST

Two new songs up....and a long news update

First of all, this is a loooong message, but we’ve been dormant on here for the most part in the last few months, simply because we’ve been saving our nuts like good squirrels (or is that ...
Posted by High Watt Electrocutions on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:53:00 PST

A somewhat official mission statement

You know, i’m not sure if I ever really said this anywhere, but I think that I could have saved a bit of confusion by offering this as our first blog! When I unofficially formed HWE through man...
Posted by High Watt Electrocutions on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:54:00 PST

Cool review of "Night Songs" in StonerRock.com!

Review of "Night Songs" in StonerRock.comWow! Thanks to Joel Gerahghty. I submitted a disc over a half a year ago, it’s cool that it’s still going strong over a year after it’s relea...
Posted by High Watt Electrocutions on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:05:00 PST

A deal with the devil....the music biz

This is something that i’ve been thinking about, and it’s never quite easy to bring up--the business side of the music industry. Unfortunately, when bands start to take their craft seriou...
Posted by High Watt Electrocutions on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:49:00 PST

Another studio update....

Today, the piano parts to 6 songs were done at Private Ear, in their revamped new studio--the room sounds great, though it's less live sounding, and it's a bit bigger than the room at the old location...
Posted by High Watt Electrocutions on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:02:00 PST

Some more news on the upcoming record....

Some news:John Golden will be mastering the upcoming record, "Headphone Opuses From Egypt". As he's worked on alot of my favorite albums as mastering engineer (Melvins, High on Fire, Comets on Fire, e...
Posted by High Watt Electrocutions on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:31:00 PST