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ANCESTORS

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About Me

Our debut album, Neptune With Fire, is to be released in the UK and US in the second week of April on North Atlantic Sound (APOLOGIES FOR THE DELAY, THERE WAS A MANUFACTURING ISSUE). It will be available in record stores worldwide, on CD and Gatefold Vinyl, as well as iTunes, Rhapsody and the whole bit. Arik Roper delivered paint and vision for the artwork.
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PRESS
MOJO Magazine:
"...LA Quintet are suitably lysergic, their debut consisting of two conceptual, organ-striated heavy rock odysseys"
Metal Hammer:
"Neptune With Fire defies analysis by being everything one could possible demand from a paean to the riff, the reefer and the misty and the misty-eyed squint into the cosmos... a lengthy, celebratory trip"
L.A. Record:
"...something along the lines of a well-paced epic soundtrack".
Prefix:
"...a healthy appreciation for the psychedelic spaciness of Hawkwind and early Pink Floyd."
Artrocker:
"...it's actually theatre set to music"
Raven Sings The Blues:
"...both tracks work in movements from dark to light; showing just as much skill in the thunderous intonation of war as the spacey tones of retribution."
Musique Machine:
"...two huge doom grooved-out, psychedelic soaked, rocking and hypnotic tracks on offer"

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/24/2006
Band Website: ancestorsmusic.com
Band Members: Justin Maranga - Guitar, Vocals
Nick Long - Bass, Vocals
Brandon Pierce - Drums, Gong
Chico Foley - Textural Incarnations, Noise, Vocals
J. Christopher Watkins - Organ, Vocals
Influences: Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, King Crimson, Flower Travellin' Band, Amon Düül II, Nektar, Agitation Free, Blues Creation, Ache, Sir Lord Baltimore, Melvins, Mono, Neurosis, Ave Rock, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Thuja, Bathory, Arzachel, Soft Machine, Pierre Schaeffer, Sleep, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Can
Sounds Like: Booking:

Martin de Pedro (Ovrcast)

Press:

Steve Dolcemaschio (Tee Pee)
Record Label: North Atlantic Sound
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ancestors in MOJO Magazine!

We’re getting our first round of press on the record, expect more to come as our publicist starts a press campaign imminently -- thanks Steve!The May 2008 edition of MOJO was just put on shelves...
Posted by ANCESTORS on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:32:00 PST

The Deer Story from fantasticweapon.com

We just got told an online mag did a story on the deer. We’re still waiting to see if the van is totaled, which will bring the grand cost to somewhere ridiculous. Either way, it’s still in...
Posted by ANCESTORS on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PST

10th Year Anniversary / SXSW / MORE!

Hello,We're finally over an infinitely reasoned respite of solitude, ready to plow 2008 for all of its nutritional seeds of color.We're not at the stage to announce many of our plans for most of 2008,...
Posted by ANCESTORS on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:25:00 PST

Ancestors Interview With Downtune Despondency

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&f riendID=24991473&blogID=328643591&Mytoken=F0CBC354-2 186-448E-A824D2733F87E77679953681. Thanks a heap for taking the time to do this ...
Posted by ANCESTORS on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:28:00 PST

Release/Label: NORTH ATLANTIC SOUND

With great pleasure we can finally announce what's happening with the debut, and the label that's putting it out. We couldn't have got involved with better people than Dave and Tony, and we're ecstati...
Posted by ANCESTORS on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:42:00 PST

Arik Roper

We've just had word that the legendary Arik Roper will be providing his prolific, psychedelic quill for the artwork/gatefold of our debut LP: Neptune With Fire. We can't say how excited we are that he...
Posted by ANCESTORS on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:41:00 PST

Recording

As of the 13th January, we will be recording with Scott Crisp in Santa Monica. We'll be primarily working on our new material: the Neptune With Fire project. However, we are hoping that we can get som...
Posted by ANCESTORS on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:29:00 PST