The new album on Heavy Psych Sounds Records “Pavement Ends” marks Arce and Lalli returning to a collaboration off the beaten path on some of the band’s darkest and heaviest themes. Drenched in sonic tension and release, bleak and beautiful.
The cover painting is the bands first collaboration with Joshua Tree artist Diane Bennett.
Tracklisting
Burrito Power
Gestapo Pop
Bomba Negra
Dust Suppression
Pavement Ends
Bad Day To Be Alive
Lineup
Gary Arce - Guitars
Bill Stinson - Drums
Mario Lalli - Bass
Thanks to the awesome folks over at Purple Sage PR and Heavy Psych Sounds you can hear the album in full with this exclusive album premiere.
Formed in 1986 under the sun of the Coachella Valley by guitarist Gary Arce, drummer Alfredo Hernandez, bassist Mario Lalli and second guitarist Larry Lalli, YAWNING MAN are considered the very founders of the desert rock movement, which was made popular by bands such as Kyuss or Queens of The Stone Age in the early 90s.
While their contemporaries gravitated toward the heavy riffs of grunge, and post-punk, YAWNING MAN leaned in another direction with their unique and organic, cinematic compositions and psychedelic improvisations: the perfect soundtrack to encompass the spacious moonscape atmosphere of the well-documented "generator parties" of their area in the late 1980s. It was at these gatherings that they developed this distinctive style and sound by enchanting spectators with their seemingly endless free-form instrumental sessions, which echoed through the beautiful deserts, mesas, and landscapes of the Coachella Valley.
As time passed, their legend grew with notable names of the Palm Desert music scene paying homage to the group through mention and praise, notably with legendary desert band Kyuss doing their own rendition of the Yawning Man track "Catamaran" on the 1995 Elektra release "...And The Circus Leaves Town". Festival appearances include Hellfest (FR), Azkena Fest (ES), Reverence Fest (ES), Desertfest London and Berlin, Up in Smoke (CH), Psycho Las Vegas (US), Stoned & Dusted I & II (US), Monolith on the Mesa (US), and various others. The recent documentaries on the desert's unique music scene "Lo Sound Desert" and "Desert Age" give light on YAWNING MAN’s influential impact on underground rock music.
Links
Thanks to Purple Sage PR for all of the details.
Pavement Ends is available to buy now on CD/DD/Vinyl via Heavy Psych Sounds.
