The Capstan Shafts are a one-man-band from Lyndonville, Vermont, also known as Dean Wells. With over 17 releases since 2004 (self-released under his own Ladder The Xmas Monkey and through labels such as Asaurus and Yellow Mica), describing The Capstan Shafts as steadily prolific would be an understatement. However, until now, there has never been a properly distributed release. The band has signed to Rainbow Quartz in 2007 to release a brand new 29-track full-length. The music consists of fiercely lo-fi sh...   [ read more ]

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22 tracks (!!) from the ever-prolific Capstan Shafts. If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is their first full length, and first foray onto factory-pressed digital format... for the home-fi indiepop lover in all of us. 'The Capstan Shafts began as a project to make field recordings of sunshine, or (more specifically) of sunflowers, or (less specifically) of high school productions of Eugene Ienescos 'rhinoceros'. On the trip out of town I noticed a young women in a lawn chair counting cars passing for the s...   [ read more ]

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THE CAPSTAN SHAFTS are a one-man-band from Lyndonville, Vermont, masterminded by DEAN WELLS. With over 17 releases since 2004 (self-released under his own Ladder The Xmas Monkey and through labels such as Asaurus and Yellow Mica), describing The Capstan Shafts as steadily prolific would be an understatement. However, until 2007's excellently-received Environ Maidenon Rainbow Quartz, his catalog was not properly distributed, although word on Wells' deliriously prodigious recordings has been percolating in t...   [ read more ]

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