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Lotus's set from Resonance Music Festival 9.18.2021

Cover photo: Chris Beikirch
Mix/Master: Jesse Miller

Hammerstrike

One, Two, Three

Intro

Bigs

F. Word

Empires

Water Song

Simulator

Instrumental post-rock and electronic dance band Lotus is set to release its third full-length studio album September 13th via SCI Fidelity Records. The self-titled album finds the band moving in a decidedly more electronic direction, while still staying true to their organic roots.  

Analog synthesizers, manipulated sounds, dub effects and heavy bass are balanced by horns and string arrangements in addition to Lotus’s standard guitar/bass/drums instrumentation. Grooves range from slinky funk and gritty half-time on the first half of the album to the beautiful and expansive closing track “Orchids.”

Although bits and pieces of vocals are used throughout, the only song to feature singing is “The Surf.” And while it may be the closest thing to a pop song the band has ever released, the melodic guitar hooks and ecstatic synth are pure Lotus.

Track List:
Golden Ghost
Blacklight Sunflare
Bush Pilot
Dowrn
The Surf
In An Outline
Mollusunk
Harps
Lou Carcohl
Evergreenery
Orchids

Blacklight Sunflare

Here are a few tracks from our 3 night run in Asheville, NC at New Mountain. 

Full Downloads of Part II & Part III -> http://bit.ly/1qlPBzi

Downloads for all Three nights Available on Drip-> http://bit.ly/1CwZuPt

Paradigm Shift | The Great Thaw | Asheville, NC | 2.27.15

Android Dance

Echoes of the Fallen Orbit EX

140 breakbeat style. I use nice instruments and a cut up amen to create a hopeful vibe. the kind of track where you can feel the stress lifting and the energy building by the end of it. 

I hope you like it, it's a bit different than my usual style, but the track begged me to make it and here we are!

Have you tried being (who you wanna be)?

Second edition Trip-Hop experimental mix fusing trippy, electronic tracks with rap and hip-hop.

Trip Hop Vol.2

This set was recorded on February 17th, 2018 at The Sinclair on night 2 of our two-night run! Cambridge, MA. Thanks to everybody who came out! See you next time!

Listen/DL the full set here -> http://bit.ly/SINCLAIRNIGHT2

Utopiate Ft. Mike Gantzer (Aqueous) | 2.17.18 | Cambridge, MA

Looking Back on Earth
Live @ CrossroadsKC
Kansas City, MO :: 7.6.2018

Get info + tickets for our Summer Tour here: https://sts9.com/pages/summer-tour-2018

Listen to the full show here: https://sts9.bandcamp.com/album/20180706-crossroadskc-kansas-city-mo

Upcoming tour dates: https://sts9.com/pages/tour-dates

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Original artwork from Marissa Favazza

2018.07.06 :: CrossroadsKC :: Kansas City, MO

LISTEN TO THE FULL SET

Looking Back on Earth :: Live in Kansas City :: 7.6.2018

20 years before the emergence of STS9, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on a mission to the farthest reaches of the solar system and beyond. Each of these probes was equipped with identical Golden Records, special messages attached to what Carl Sagan called “a bottle launched into the cosmic ocean.” They contained numerous images and sounds from throughout the world, pieces of music from various cultures, a map identifying the location of our planet, and other information for whomever, or whatever, might find them.

While the Golden Records included greetings in 59 languages, they made no mention of nations and borders, wars and rivalries, or anything else that divides us. What they did mention was life, love, peace, birth--the things that bind us to one another and to the planet we call home. 

The Universe Inside is a reflection of this message. It is a story about human identity and the magical truth of who we are, where we’re going, and our place in the Universe. It says we are one, made of stardust and the forces of nature that evolved over billions of years. Connected by the sun, moon and stars, we are the living, breathing conscience of the Universe. 

"We are one, made from dust of the stars / down here we bear the weight of the pain and the scars / just want to live with nothing to hide / every one of us a universe inside."

Water Song

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