Music:
Member Since: 9/19/2005
Band Website: lazilyspun.co.uk
Band Members:
The Lazily Spun are Matt Woolham (vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, percussion, soundscapes, sound manipulation, bike & bell), Harry Sumnall (bass, harmonium, guitars, q-chord, percussion, tamboura, sitar, autoharp, gopichand, synthesisers, mellotron, sampling, sound FX, soundscapes, theremin, bells & whistles), James Pagella (drums & Ire~Sensi Wisdom), Jules Watts (lead guitar & ritual theremin-pole dancing)
Influences:
The Flaming Lips; Alexandro Jodorowsky; Butthole Surfers; Ween; Olivia Tremor Control; Mooseheart Faith; Scorpio Rising/UK; Os Mutantes; The Bachelor Pad; Syd Barrett; Julian Cope; XTC,Dukes of Stratosphear; Melodie Du Kronk; Dominoes; Nick Nicely; The Tams; Four Tops; Bobby Womack; West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band; The Living Brain; Pop Levi; Zukanican; Loka; Snap Ant; Silver Apples; CAN; 6 Organs of Admittance; Stone Breath; Julia Phillips; Essex Green; Love; Shalabi Effect; Alan Hollinghurst; Need New Body; Amon Duul; Faust; Incredible String Band; Comus; Grateful Dead; COB; Dr John; Bobby Beausoleil; Young Fresh Fellows; Circus Maximus; Terence McKenna; AntBear; Spectrum; Gram Parsons; Byrds; Animal Collective; Kaleidoscope; Pink Floyd; July; Mu; Magic Carpet; Jennifer Gentle; Kenneth Anger; Jan Svankmajer; Emperor Tomato Ketchup; Mighty Baby; Soft Machine; Grassroots; Sunburned Hand of the Man; Seeds; Alice Coltrane; United States of America; Popol Vuh; Agitation Free; ISAN; Pelt; Brainticket; Werner Herzog; Klaus Kinski; William S Burroughs; Gustav Meyrink; Valerie and Her Week of Wonders; Espers; Velvet Underground; Ravi Shankar; In Gowan Ring; Ultimate Spinach; Bobby Callender; Group 1850; Mellow; The White Noise; Super Numeri; Jacques Dutronc; Floating Flower; Ghost; Dillard and Clark; Rameses; Buffalo Springfield; Vampyros Lesbos; Sun Ra; Scatter; Harmonia; Lothars; Hawk and a Hacksaw; Sunshine Fix; Add N to X; Donovan; NEU; Buffy Sainte Marie; Jeans Team; Ya Ho Wa...
Sounds Like:
Cerebrospinal DMT extracted through the (3rd) eye ball
"... this is a truly trippy enterprise; songs sometimes veer off into sound collages, or crystallize into crisp focus with haunting melodies, choral harmonies, and lush layers of instrumentation when it's needed; and spare when it's called for, all carefully crafted with great eye-candy cover art." George Parsons - Dream Magazine USA
"...a melting pot of styles, from medieval wyrdfolk a la Incredible String Band and Gryphon, to phased backward guitars, sitars, mellotrons, autoharp and assorted "weird Chinese shit" Fake Jazz, USA
"Dazzling psych pop meets freewheeling tribal folk psych. Hear why Ptolemaic Terrascope and John Peel loves em so much : Very HIGHly recommended" Aching Cellar, UK
"...mixing earnest prettiness with warped humour and wilful weirdness and communal musical communication; slipping between sweet ballads, sweet ballads laced with assorted archaic instrumentage, and totally zapped-out soundtrackist wig-outs in which drones and noise-boxes tend to take centre-stage." Gravity Girl, Australia
"...the best sounds out of 30 years of psychedelia erupt in fireworks of ideas that are embedded in surreal sound effects." Psychedelic-music.net
"a must for fans of psychedelic pop" Bliss Aquamarine UK
"...a sensational psychoactive kaleidoscope, casting a multiplicity of aural options from the past and the present and after which your neural receptors are destined never to be as they used to." Rockerilla Magazine, Italy
"...pulling the listener back into a dimension of sound collage" Dusted Magazine USA
Record Label: Camera Obscura
Type of Label: Indie
