The Faraway Places
California's Faraway Places began life as a Boston-based band called Solar Saturday. Guitarist/vocalist Chris Colthart, keyboardist/vocalist Donna Coppola, and bassist Jeff Wright issued a self-titled EP in 2001 on their homegrown imprint Near By, supporting it with dates opening for Papas Fritas. Colthart and Coppola then stuck with Papas Fritas, touring with them as accompanying musicians. Next came a move to Los Angeles, and the molting process to become Faraway Places. In addition to Colthart (acting as principal songwriter) and Coppola,...[more]
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The Faraway Places is both a space-rock band with 5-14 people, and a modal energy music ensemble that performs omniphonic compositions at art-spaces. Both formations of the group paint in broad strokes of volume and free-form repetition, combining tuneful California pop slackness with a driving 60s experimentalism. Within the sheets of sound produced by the ensemble you can find the pulsing mechanical rhythms of Can, harmonies reminiscent of the Mamas and Papas, the angular guitars of the Byrds and Royal Tr [ read more ]
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Chris Colthart and Donna Coppola used to be in a psych pop band called Solar Saturday. They also drifted through the lineup of Papas Fritas before relocating to California and becoming the proprietors of the Faraway Places. For Unfocus on It, the sound is bright-hearted Byrds and Elephant 6 pop, filtered prettily through poptronic and Krautrock tree branches. Of course there's the sound of a hundred other bands in there, lost in the echoes of string sections ("Summertime" [ read more ]
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