Member Since: 11/17/2004
Band Website: sonicsoundwave.com
Band Members: Formed June 2004
Blake Hutyra - Guitar, Loops, Synth, Piano - Side Projects include Hutyra & Grimaudo
Justin Sweatt - Drums, Synth, Piano - Other Bands include Night Friends , and Kosmodrome
Zach Hennard - Bass, Keys, Guitar
Influences: Heroic Doses ...and well ...to be more exact some of them are listed in the top friends section.
Sounds Like: (PUSH PLAY )
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'Mindbreaths' Review from AustinSound.net
Skiesfalling has set their sights high with their debut release here. Intended as the first of an ongoing series, the EXPEP 1 - Mindbreaths EP is a collection of three excerpts from the band's improvisational ambient jams. A mix of pulsing electronics and sparse piano laid on synthetic and guitar tones and subconscious bass grooves form the raw material, from which the best sort of ambient is formed. Demanding of your complete attention or none at all, the songs amble along, each part with equal measure, constant and in constant flux. The band has said that these sessions are providing the raw material to develop more polished songs, which will include an expansion to a full band with percussion. I'm excited to see how that shapes up, but even so, there's something sublime about the stream of consciousness on Mindbreaths, free from the censor of reflection.
~ Gilbert Bernstein
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'Mindbreaths' Review excerpt from The Silent Ballet (webzine)
"The word ambient will always remind me of Brian Eno. While it wasn't Eno who necessarily invented the genre, Erik Satie's Musique d'ameublement is probably further into where the root of this phenomenon lies, Eno surely was the most prolific progenitor of the art. With this in mind, the current ambient artist has much to overcome.
Austin-based experimental band Skiesfalling is one such group to do this. Their EP EXPEP 1-Mindbreaths travels the gamut of noise-ridden background sounds to bass grooved improvisations. From the literature on their website, it is apparent that the three tracks on the EP were excerpts from a much longer improvisational jam(s). This is obvious while listening because the tracks have no clear beginning or ending. Each track fades in from nothing and voyages back to whence it came, some other dimension perhaps. This method of composing music, in my experience, at least, is no easy task. Skiesfalling's mastery of this technique is beyond impressive. It is evident that the group probably recorded this EP live in their living room.
As far as memorable moments, the bass line on "Sun Ra Set'e" grooves and is as mysterious as it is catchy. "Redwall", in addition to a few intense white noise builds, is full of randomness and droning. The second track, "Felise", definitely sounds like a soundtrack for a journey through space, like in the vain of Icebraker International's Into Forever, but not exactly that structured. While I wouldn't necessarily listen to EXPEP 1-Mindbreaths everyday, Skiesfalling are definitely unique in the ambient realm of music and would unquestionably sound astonishing live, especially while trashed (getting out there)."
~ David
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'Mindbreaths' Review from Ptolemaic Terrascope (magazine UK)
"...'Mindbreaths' by Skiesfalling is the latest project from the SonicSoundWave outlet, which has been a constant source of delight here at Terrascope Towers for several years now (Bella 1998-2001). 'Sun Ra Set'e' has a gloriously laid-back jazz vibe which brings to mind some of Spirit's soundtrack work for 'The Model Shop' movie, while 'Redwall' finds Hawkwind colliding with Pink Floyd somewhere out there in middle space. Glorious music to while away the last of the summer's wine to."
~ Phil McMullen
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Excerpt from interview with Seting Sun (UK)
Setting Sun: "What is the inspiration behind your name Skiesfalling which I love as a name?"
Blake: "...for some reason that saying came to my mind
"The sky is falling the sky is falling", aside from the silly
story it came from I was like, this is a really cool
concept in my mind. To me the concept meant
more of, if the sky is falling, then our concept
of everything we thought we knew and understood
and can rely on is basically out the door, gone! It's all
flipped upside down and the fear of the unknown comes
to play, yet the newness that it brings and the unknown
can sometimes be the most beautiful thing, the most
beautiful new beginning."
Record Label: The ones committed to the evolution of music
Type of Label: None