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Warner Bros./ Reprise Records
Released: May 14, 2004 |
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The Secret Machines
All art is a subjective experience, but music is the only art form that can really be experienced in nearly every imaginable context and circumstance. And when just the right music, context and circumstance come together, the experience can be profoundly, inexplicably magical. For Secret Machines, three young artists who paint vivid pictures with sound and volume, every performance — and every track on their new Reprise debut entitles, Now Here Is Nowhere, is informed by the continuous pursuit of that intangible magic.
“Everyone’s been to a show where you’re watching the performance, and all of a sudden the world’s different,” says Ben Curtis, Secret Machines’guitarist and vocalist. “You have some kind of epiphany, and it’s totally generated by that music and that moment.”
“We’ve all experienced that,” agrees bassist, keyboardist and vocalist Brandon Curtis. “That’s the only reason I’ve ever wanted to play music — to deliver that to other people. Given the right moment, we will change your life.”
The latest link in the loose-knit chain that connects Pink Floyd, Neu, Can, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, La Dusseldorf, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Band, My Bloody Valentine and Spiritualized, Secret Machines play music that’s spatial, ambient, organic, ecstatic, hypnotic, and not a little bit psychedelic. “We’re just trying to make music that connects with people, connects with the cosmos, and connects with the gods,” explains drummer Josh Garza. It’s music that will definitely take you places — which is appropriate, considering that Secret Machines’ musical quest has been an epic journey in itself.
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