Fell CD Now Out!

First release for 2006! We're excited! (Then again we're an excitable bunch.)

Artist: Fell
Title: (self-titled)
Cat No: CAM074CD (12 tracks, 47:55 approx)
About the album: Fell is a new project by Josh Wambeke of the Denver, Colorado psychedelic pop duo Phineas Gage (last heard in 2000 on their Camera Obscura CD "Reconsidered"). The band began life as a series of four-track tapes culled from a backlog of Josh Wambeke's demos - experimental odds and ends deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the Phineas Gage repertoire due to their heavy usage of electronics and drum machines. When Wambeke's colleague in Gage, Patrick Porter, embarked on an extensive globe-trot and started on a series of solo releases, Wambeke set out to combine the existing electro-ambient feel of these demo tracks with the heavily-reverbed space guitars and layered, subterranean vocals that had comprised the Phineas Gage sound. Recruiting local drummer Josh Cedillo and friends Zac Hilman, and Mike Dewey, Wambeke purchased home recording equipment and spent the next year in his grandmother's basement recording the songs for a first Fell album. Heavy influences during the recordings included Joy Division and the Cure's "Disintegration".

As sessions for the album progressed, Wambeke took on more and more of the recording himself, the creation of the songs becoming a kind of therapy during a time of uncertainty and depression. A year's worth of basement sessions gave birth to this CD. A number of shows were played, but eventually Hilman and Dewey left the band for other ventures. Currently the group consists of Wambeke and Cedillo, who are continuing to record new songs for future releases. The Fell CD runs the gamut from psych to space to post-rock with nods in the direction of early new wave and ambient electronics but in the end it is the band's effortless song craft and precise arrangements that propel tracks like the hypnotic "Data-Backspace=Error", the melancholy "End Forever", the haunting "Vacant Song" and the sublime acoustic closer "Cause of Cancer" into hearts and stratospheres.

Press for Phineas Gage's "Reconsidered":

"Homegrown psychedelic offerings from Colorado duo…fuzzy guitars and emotional vocals show an affection for more recent drug rock like Spaceman 3 as well as the classics. Nice playing" - Scram Magazine #12

"Overall a great album, dreamy and expressive…these guys have a lot of promise" - LosingToday Magazine

"Phineas Gage's 'Reconsidered' is a Lo-Fi masterwork. Obviously recorded on a tiny or absent budget, the album nonetheless pleases the listener with sturdy yet fragile melodies. Reminds one of the 'Meddle' Floyd era, but without all the sound effects and long guitar solos. A beautiful, haunting, and unfortunately overlooked record." Howard Morris at http://www.psychedelic-music.net

"Criminally overlooked" – Ptolemaic Terrascope On-Line May 2005

Check out MP3s: Go to http://www.cameraobscura.com.au and follow the "Sounds" Link.
Also, there are three or four tracks at the Fell MySpace page:http://www.myspace.com/fellmusic

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