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Dark Sunny Land

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Boston’s Steve Painter is Dark Sunny Land. He has also recorded as part of the duo 12 Cent Donkey and the trio JAS. Dark Sunny Land uses acoustic and electric guitars (often played in an unorthodox fashion), as well as keyboards, recorder, percussion, various household contraptions and other found sounds. The first Dark Sunny Land album--Kon Taan Kor—was recorded during the summer of 2008 and released in 2009 by Gulcher Records.Roger Miller (Mission of Burma, Alloy Orchestra) wrote the following about Kon Taan Kor:"Guitars, mostly. Abstracted, then reconstructed. Prepared, unprepared. The purpose is sound, not chord progressions and scales; but there is organic movement in every track. There are grooves, but nothing you would tap your feet to; time dissolving rather than time insistent. The results evoke environments familiar but alien: a hint of blues behind sheets of distant sound. Ambient? yes, but not new age. Psychedelic? sure, but not '60's-style. Industrial? it's there, but it's not bone-crushing. You can hear the research as it happens, and its workings are intriguing."Roger Miller Oct.29, 2008. I-294 out of Chicago.

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Member Since: 07/04/2008
Band Members: Steve Painter
Influences: Loren Connors, Dead C, Pelt, Sonic Youth, Robert Pete Williams, Bob Dylan, Tom Verlaine, John Fahey, Sun Ra, Keenan Lawler, 12 Cent Donkey, JAS, Howlin' Wolf, Crawlspace, Sun City Girls, Sir Richard Bishop, Alan Bishop (Alvarius B.), Fursaxa, Michael Hurley, Lightnin' Hopkins, Rick Breault, Peter Falk, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, John Coltrane, Magnetic Memory, The Real Simon, Jakob Olausson, The Velvet Underground, Miles Davis, Tony Conrad, Sparklehorse, Smog, Roger C. Miller, The Stooges, Dock Boggs, Derek Bailey, Ashtray Navigations, MV & EE, Six Organs of Admittance, Black Forest / Black Sea, Charalambides, Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Patton, T-Model Ford, Twink, The Gun Club, Sunburned Hand of the Man, JOMF, Geoff Mullen, Stefan Neville, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Anthony Braxton, This Heat, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Bardo Pond, Tetuzi Akiyama, Robert Horton, Paul Metzger, Fred Frith, Bukka White, DNA, Bobb Trimble, Lili Boulanger, Weirdo Records, Starving Weirdos, AMM, American Sphinx
Sounds Like: Lonely pathways with light at the end of the road (or river), laid down mostly with acoustic and electric guitars and cheap effects, with dollups here and there of keyboards, household objects, percussion, recorder, found sounds, and random events. Not too polished. Some "paint thrown at the canvas" accusations may be forthcoming and will be happily acknowledged.
Record Label: Gulcher
Type of Label: Indie

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