Grave News For You.

February 20, 2011, 6 comments

Based out of Oakland, California, Galena is the recording project of visual artist/musician Billy Sprague. After a very warm reception among critics and listeners alike, his latest album Grave News For You – originally released only as a limited cassette on Sanity Muffin, the label Billy co-runs with his brother, has now been re-issued on vinyl and compact disc.

Using a setup of analog synths, a baritone guitar, the DRM-16 Electro Harmonix Drum Machine, a Roland Space Echo, and a toy microphone, Grave News For You is a breathtaking exploration into harsh white noise and deepest drone soundscapes, finest analog synth ambient music that is a contemplating yet demanding listen, gently changing its tone from track to track, without ever loosing its overall conceptuality – a dark, minimal work of pure abstraction that still manages to sound warm and organic all along. You can order the LP or CD via Darla now. Before, take a listen to three cuts from the piece below.

Moreover, there’s already a fresh Galena release ready, a split LP together with Toronto/Berlin experimental ambient duo Nadja, put out soon by Berlin’s Adagio380.

Starting in early April, Galena will be on a Central European tour with Nadja to promote their split release. Some of the dates are listed below, for the whole list please visit the tour page on Facebook:

04-07 Berlin – Schokoladen
04-12 Toulouse – Mix’art Myrys
04-14 Pisa – Caracol Club
04-16 Maribor – Pekarna
04-17 Zagreb – tba
04-18 Budapest – Durer-kert
04-19 Prague – Chapeau Rouge
04-20 Dresden – AZ Conni
04-21 Frankfurt – Studio Konsti

(Poster design by HLG)

Galena – Silence the Wind

Galena – That a Boy

Galena – Depth Remover

By Henning

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  • cptn. sanitarium

    thanks for the kind words Henning! glad your enjoying Grave News… i should have another tour only limited cassette album for the Nadja / Galena tour and the split LP with Nadja will be a limted edition of 500 with 100 clear vinyl copies for pre-orders and tour only, interested folks should hit up ADAGIO380 asap! thanks again!
    billy http://www.billysprague.com

  • oldhat

    this tour is gonna be incredible!! that a boy is a sweltering skull melter!!! have a pint for me in zagreb!!

  • Starboy

    STOKED!!!!!!!

  • Travis Wyche

    i’ve seen galena pump out some colon crushing gyrations of psychotropic sounds in oakland… beautifully dark yet strangely comforting rumblings which are made even more ethereal by the lysergic projections of old film and painted slides thrown up all over the walls. the sanity muffin tape demonstrates more restraint than the live shows, but spares no expense with the skull thumping syncopations rolling over saccharine analog bass lines and cackling unidentifiable electronic noise-forms. i’m REALLY looking forward to the split with NADJA and it makes me CRAZY to think that i’m going to miss all those european show dates… i’m sure it will be mind expanding to say the least.

  • seaslayer

    yes! cant wait for the vinyl version of this album! and to hear what him and Nadja came up with!