SUBARACHNOID SPACE was a recent dark psychedelic band from San Francisco formed in 1996 by Mason Jones, changing regularly their line-up. Their music, always instrumental and often improvised, features long slow pieces of strange and obscure soundscapes in the vein of HAWKWIND's Space Ritual, but more down-tempo and evolving, with tortured spacey guitars. Their sound is very obscure and noisy, quite modern and unique, transporting you to lost and unknown galaxies to explore... They opened plenty of american shows for the ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE and other japanese psychedelic bands.

The band is quite prolific and released an album nearly each year, most of them containing long pieces of mindblowing and growing music. Their 1997 LP, Almost Invisible shows the band's maturation, offering cosmic collisions soundscapes and sonic deflagrations, in the spirit of early PINK FLOYD and ASH RA TEMPLE. In the next album, Endless Renovation, the sound is more polished, but also jazzy by moments. In 2002, they released Tigris~Euphrates, a split LP with Bardo Pond. Red Veil, released in 2005, revealed a more heavy and energic side by the band.

An unique experience ! Icy and tormented, rather dark and experimental than light and relaxing, SUBARACHNOID SPACE is highly recommended to frightening, space and psychedelic rock explorers!

Addition 28-9-2010: 13 August the band gave a farewell concert at the Mississipi Studios and are now disbanded. According to the band members this step was taken as they want to concentrate on new projects.

NB: In anatomy, the subarachnoid space is the interval in the brain between the arachnoid mater and pia mater.


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