#gary arce

[dry-valleys]

[rainingmusic]

Brant Bjork - Automatic Fantastic

[dry-valleys]

[francofuego]

arena wien 2019 | yawning man live

[dmsphoto]

Yawning Man, Porto, Portugal, 2018.

More concert pics on my Instagram: @dmsampaio

[thestatlerpat]

Yawning Man.

I made a post a little while ago praising Alfredo Hernandez’s talent as a drummer, which I still stand by one hundred percent. I can’t help but feel like the early desert rock scene tapped into something that was never really found again, the first ignition of fuel that burned a little cleaner than the rest.

In a way, it all begins and ends with Yawning Man. On Low Desert Punk, Brant Bjork talks about staining the sands of the desert with his blood, but Yawning Man was that blood. The stories of generator parties are almost legends now, littered with half-stoned tales of bands like Yawning Man playing into the night like biomechanical perpetual motion machines.

There’s something special about them, and you can hear it if you pay attention. It’s a sound of beautiful loneliness, of wind-whipped dunes and sand-burnt heels, eroded canyons and dead highways. Whatever the source is, Yawning Man found it, and gave the wisdom to their desert rock progeny.

You can take me to God indeed.

[allo-la-terre-ici-la-lune]

Oh and I stood face to face with Gary Arce but my phone battery was dead, otherwise I would have asked for a picture with him :(

[thestatlerpat]

Detail of the album art on the new Fatso Jetson/Yawning Man split.

Tour only, so if any of you Eurofriends get the chance, pick up a copy! Support Mario and the dudes.