Yawning Balch to Release Volume One This Summer; Song Snippet Posted
Last November, guitarist Bob Balch of Fu Manchu and Big Scenic Nowhere (also ex-Minotaur, etc.) put out word of a lengthy jam session — thankfully recorded — with desert rock instrumentalists Yawning Man and threatened that it “might be a double record.” It would seem that has turned out to be exactly the case, as the cover art and a snippet of a song called “Dreaming With Eyes Open” have been posted ahead of the release of Yawning Balch‘s first installment, Volume One. I don’t know when it’s actually going to be released, but “early summer” says May or June to me, and given the sprawl in this minute-long sample, I’m happy to immerse whenever it arrives, which is not to mention how.
Balch and founding Yawning Man guitarist Gary Arce are of course no strangers to each other, collaborating in Big Scenic Nowhere alongside Tony Reed, Mario Lalli, Yawning Man drummer Bill Stinson and others, and Yawning Balch would seem to manifest as a new offshoot of Yawning Man in the spirit of Arce-related projects like Yawning Suns or Ten East, as opposed to Big Scenic Nowhere, which although built out of jams seemingly recorded in a block-of-time session like this, are fleshed out and edited into (relatively) structured pieces that generally include vocals.
Yawning Balch, with Billy Cordell on bass, Stinson on drums, and Arce/Balch on guitar (one assumes the moniker ‘AC/BC’ was considered and dismissed; fair enough) will release at least two long-players carved from out of five hours of recorded jams — that’s up from three in the first post — with the gorgeous front cover by John McGill and a logo by Pia Isaksen of Norway’s Superlynx (Arce also played on her Pia Isa solo record last year), through a label still to be announced.
Or I guess it’s possible they could self-release it, throw it out there on Bandcamp and other DSPs for whoever wants to chase it down or hope to catch whatever algorithm puts music in ears these days, but considering Yawning Man‘s recently announced new LP, Long Walk of the Navajo, is set for June 16 through Heavy Psych Sounds and the same label has been behind Big Scenic Nowhere, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to think that might be a home for Yawning Balch as well, even if that same Yawning Man release’s timing would make it basically concurrent to the “early summer” Yawning Balch outing.
Scheduling. Logistics. Preorders. All that new-record stuff. There’s a lot of info still to shake out for Yawning Balch‘s Volume One, but it’s nobody’s first time at this particular dance, so sit tight and it’ll get here when it gets here. If you’re not already feeling impatient though, that song snippet should help you get there.
Enjoy:
YAWNING BALCH (Volume 1) will be released early this summer! Back in November of last year I jammed with @yawningmanofficial in Joshua Tree, CA at @gatostrail. We had five hours and the end result is two records of fully improvised pedal porn jams. Both Volumes 1 and 2 consist of three long songs. Here is a small clip of a song titled “Dreaming With Eyes Open.” I’ll post more clips soon. Can’t wait for you to hear this stuff. It’s crazy. Artwork by the very talented @johnmcgill
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