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Sunray

New LP 'Tomorrow' Out Now

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DISCOGRAPHY

Tomorrow LP (Strawberry Recording Co. CD)
Ocean EP (Earworm Gold Series 12")
Retrospective In Stereo (Enraptured Records vinyl LP)
Song For Brion Gysin (Bedroom Ambience 3 Compilation, Enraptured Records CD)
Fire Inside (More Tell Tale Signs of Earworm Compilation, Earworm Records CD)
Incantation Live (Strawberry Recording Co. CD)
Music For The Dreamachine EP (Strawberry Recording Co. CD)
Shake It (Earworm Records 7")
Music For The Dreamachine (Earworm Records 12")
Music For The Dreamachine (Acid Tapes cassette)

PRESS FOR OCEAN EP

"This is a rather great and generous EP which harks back to the days of shoegaze. This is not suprising given that one of the guests on the epic 13 and a half minute 'Ocean' (a cover version of a Velvet Underground track) is none other than Sonic Boom, him of Spacemen 3 fame.

It's an enthralling Oceanic sprawl of the most lovely enveloping kind, featuring an array of Analogue instruments and guitar, all reaching to achieve the highest levels of music that takes your head somewhere else. The other two tracks are more or less the comedown to the first one, more stable and simpler, but still heavily psychedelic and recorded with much heavyness and depth. The last track on the EP is a seven and a half minute instrumental drone piece based around a single chord, it's intense and gorgeous at the same time."
WARPMART, Warp records website, July 2006

PRESS

"Definitely recommended for worshipers of drone and psychedelic rock."
leonairdslair.co.uk

"...peppered with the sort of leather-jacketed mysticism that would make Sonic Boom, and the Seeds, proud."
Linus Tossio, freq.co.uk

"...brings to mind all the elegance of psychedelias best acts: the Beatles, the Byrds, the Velvets, Pink Floyd and Spacemen 3. Very cool stuff indeed."
Anthony Strutt, pennyblackmusic.com

"If you're a fan of top-quality, semi-experimental, blissed-out guitar you will in no way be disappointed by this little corker."
Record Collector Magazine

"A sublime cavernous cascade that passes between latter-style Spacemen 3 and the twang of the Jesus and Mary Chain. So tripped out you'll dizzy yourself in drooling ecstasy."
opalmusic.com


SUNRAY perform ONE NOTE JAM

Live at ROTA, Notting Hill Arts Centre, London. 23 October 2004

Jon Chambers guitar (Vox Phantom XII)
Will Thomas guitar (Rickenbaker 360)
Tom Boswell guitar (Telecaster)
Chris Pearson bass (Epiphone)
Bob Bhamra drums (Ludwig)

Shot by Charley Bez
Edited/manipulated by Will Thomas
Sound by Monika

My Interests

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Member Since: 7/27/2006
Band Website: sunraymusic.co.uk
Band Members: The following individuals have recorded with Jon Chambers on Sunray releases: John Lewis, Bob Bhamra, Will Thomas, Justin Morey, Sonic Boom, Nicola Chambers, Tom Boswell, Chris Pearson, Phil Goss.

Jon Chambers also runs Strawberry Recording Co.
Influences: John Lee Hooker, the Who, the Creation, Small Faces, Beatles Revolver LP, Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Velvets, Stooges, MC5, Can, Whaam Records, The Smiths, Creation Records, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Las, Factory Records, Genesis P Orridge, Bridget Riley, Sonic Boom, Stone Roses, Jackson Pollock, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Mark E Smith.
Record Label: Enraptured, Earworm and Strawberry Recording Co
Type of Label: Indie