Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Brand new Drone Metal band, DRONI EYE OMI to release debut album ‘Liminal Mass’ via Desert Records on March 7th, 2025

Photo by S. Seibert

Two guitars, one from Brad Frye (Red Mesa and Desert Records founder) and a second one from Ronaldo Baca (renowned New Mexican gypsy jazz band Swing Magique and flamemco guitarist) bring you a dense electric guitar drone mixed with psych and space minimalism, and meditative heaviness.

However, desert/stoner rock or gypsy jazz/flameco this is not!!

This is true drone and minimalism inspired by Lamonte Young's "Composition 1960 No. 7" and Earth's "Earth 2"

Droni Eye Omi take these influences as a base starting point and send them straight into the cosmos.


The band name came from a text between myself and Michael DiMartino of Fowl Sounds. We were conceptualizing a drone pedal for guitar/bass (coming soon?) and he sent me two words: Droni Iommi. I laughed and said that would be a perfect name for a drone band. Well, a few months later I pitched this meditative drone project to Ronaldo Baca, and we got together and immediately found a connection with this style of music. The album was done live, all in one take. We recorded ourselves with a ton of mics on many amps with a psychedelic digital light show projecting on us. Enjoy melting your brains on this music.” -Brad Frye

Album cover by Diogo Soares

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Thanks to Desert Bloom PR for all of the details.