goodnight stars goodnight air

TIME AND SPACE BENDING, SUBLUMINAL DRONE.
SOUNDS FROM THE WOODS AND BROKEN INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPES.
SPLIT 12" OUT NOW
my split 12" with Dragon Turtle is available from La Société Expéditionnaire and it is a thing of beauty. mastered by jj golden (Sonic Youth, Sub-Pop, SST, Kill Rock Stars) and lovingly designed by Brian Lightbody, it is pressed onto gorgeous blue and white swirled vinyl. the dragon turtle side draws you in with sweet psych space folk and the gsga side turns you out into the night with some cold dark and imposing drones. we've labored over it, we love it and we know you will too. you can order one from them or buy a copy from me when i play live. the songs are available individually on iTunes and Emusic and many other outlets, but every vinyl purchase gets you free high quality digital downloads as well. sample the sounds at La Société Expéditionnaire and mailorder from our distributor Chicago Independent or direct from them.
http://www.la-soc.com
WORKS IN PROGRESS
i'm writing and recording GSGA material and concentrating on guitar/fx in SOARS and WE HAVE HEAVEN. i play with others in structured and free improv collaborations, PAPER/PLASTICC, PROJECT ABACA, DRAGON TURTLE, and BREADMACHINE, as well as other combinations in the lehigh valley and philadelphia. always progressing, challenging, moving forward.
GSGA / DRAGON TURTLE SPLIT 12" reviews
from Foxy Digitalis
Dragon Turtle is a collective of musicians, including David Kresge, who appears to be the sole member of Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air. This is important because the sounds of these two bands blend together in an extraordinary way that creates a seamless 3-song record. The Dragon Turtle song, “Spill Out the Night,” starts off slow and uneventful, like a quieter Stars of the Lid piece, until a few minutes in (the track is almost 18 minutes long) when the listener, this listener anyways, came to realize that she had been slowly hypnotized by its beauty. Soft, almost chanted vocals whose words are hard to decipher highlight the careful construction of the guitar and atmospherics. The drums, however, are what really crank this song up a notch. Tasteful and restrained they are reminiscent of the Damon Krukowski’s work – the very opposite of pummeling. Overall, the piece ebbs and flows, but mostly ebbs, at a languid pace that soothes the listener.
The Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air songs (there are two) sound similar to the Dragon Turtle song, proceeding at a slightly quicker, but still hovering, pace. They are slightly louder, more electric, more feedback. The feedback can feel static at times, lacking the transcendence of the Dragon Turtle song, but the overall effect is beautiful. Each note is strained to the fullest, stretched out and perfectly in place with the rest of the compositions.
8/10
- Shannon Smith
http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=5191
GSGA "Imbolc" reviews
from Jon Solomon's Local Support Podcast 054
Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air submit the second really !@$ing long track of the podcast with the vast existential emptiness of "Imbolc V." This tune is so massive in scope and execution that it would give those fellas in Godspeed! You Black Emperor a boner.
-Nate Adams, Philadelphia City Paper
http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/clog/category/music/local-support/
GSGA "And Forever" reviews
from Jon Solomon's Local Support Podcast 059
Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air break things up nicely with dreamy synth atmospherics that conspire to make soothing sleep tones for your insomnia.
-Jakob Dorof, Philadelphia City Paper
http://www.criticalmass.blogs.citypaper.net/blogs/mu/category/local-support/
GSGA "Là Fhèill Brìghde" reviews
Goodnight Stars, Goodnight Air - "viii"
A flying mass of static begins to ripple and studder as it travels skyward in reverse, the chanting of its worshipers caught in its many folds. The lightning melodies it nurtures flit violently about its great, indecipherable belly, searching for sustenance; growing, then dissolving into one another and falling as rain onto the ice pools of the night-cloaked desert below.
-Neil Cleary-Trask, Positive Feedback
http://www.posifeed.blogspot.com
Goodnight Stars, Goodnight Air - "La Feile Brigide"
1st track: gargled bells/ tattered prayer flags/ bronze statues contemplating hillsides of graves/ rain on misty mountaintops/ legacies of potent patina/ there is so much movement in this stillness/ distilled motion/ cupped hands around steaming bowls, to drink/ the steam's sound if it could be heard, curling warm and ethereal/ mysterious/
2st track: vocals unfurl/ the new ceremonials/ shamanic monk/ building on a noise wall of guitar and piano, holy cave paintings on a wall of fluttering cinderblocks about to collapse, dangling piano keys like pulled teeth. whole thing beneath a red sky, the package is simple & beautiful and i have a weakness for things in the small. tiny square of red sky and two lengthy tracks to unravel. pick it UP.
-Hannae Pavlick, Bethlehem Above Ground
http://www.myspace.com/bethlehemaboveground