Howlin Wuelf Media :: The Veda Rays ::

Black clouds, Art Rock, Life & accidental death. From the westernmost point of the Bermuda Triangle. Seriously... Brooklyn's The Veda Rays debut set for early Fall release

The story of how The Veda Rays debut Gamma Rays Galaxy Rays Veda Rays came to be is not exactly light reading. Due out in early Fall, the album documents a strange and tumultuous passage in the chronicles of this ragtag cast’s travelogue. "One of my best friends died of an accidental overdose, another of my former band mates was forced out by his family and sent half-way across the country to a rehab, Jason Gates' sister committed suicide after many years of battling psychological problems and substance abuse...", explains singer/guitarist Jim Stark of how it all began in South Florida when increasingly bizarre and tragic events sent him headlong into the unknown.

The origin of Gamma Rays Galaxy Rays Veda Rays started with the reuniting of Stark and drummer Gates, lifelong friends who started working together again in 2009 after spending several years apart – a side effect of the aforementioned drama beating down from all sides. " A five year relationship I had been in fell apart in the worst and most dramatic sort of ways, I had legal issues...things seemed really grim, to say the very least. I literally lost everything during that time." Stark continues, "Next, I shared a place in Palm Beach with a Guyanese pothead who suffered from PTSD and a former skinhead who I met through my loose association with an errant quasi-masonic black magick sect. I believe the place was under the influence of a malevolent entity. Lucky for me the bottom fell out when it did."

The Veda Rays forthcoming offering is characterized by the visceral rush of garage simmering just atop the surface of their narcotic noise-pop sheen. Furtherly, the bands’ self-described "Art-house rock & roll" combines elements of post-punk, psych and experimental. Esteemed NYC musician/producer/leader of The Bongos, Richard Barone said, "The Veda Rays create a densely melodic, primal psycho-glam electro rock phantasmagoria that will have you turned inside out the moment they strike their first chord."

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Here’s a link to download and stream the first track, “All Your Pretty Fates”:

Link to stream:

http://soundcloud.com/the-veda-rays/all-your-pretty-fates-tvr

Link to download:

http://www.mediafire.com/?swazmg2u1jzp8gl

Here’s a link for the video for “All Your Pretty Fates”:

http://youtu.be/TaaCvvBbXm8

http://www.youtube.com/user/theevedarays

Gamma Rays Galaxy Rays Veda Rays is an audible testament of an enduring odyssey as experienced by the band (guitarist/vocalist/keys Jim Stark; bassist Tyson Reed Frawley; guitar/keys/vox Jimmy Jenkins; and drummer Jason Gates). Gates (aka Jason Marcucci), an in-demand NYC producer & mixer, who has worked with everyone from The White Stripes to Dean & Britta, had the nerve-wracking task of mixing Gamma Rays while the recording studio he worked at was in the middle of relocating. The result was he and Stark strung out on several day studio binges and late night treks through city blizzards, to finish their record even as the movers arrived – fueling the album’s urgency yet more.

Stark chronicles more of the events which had conspired to set the stage for Gamma Rays, "My long-time friend Matthew Storch, brother of famed hip hop producer Scott Storch, took me in. I stayed with him in Bal Harbor (Miami Beach) for awhile. We were both slumming as he was basically waiting to be evicted. His world was going south as well. Those were troubled times. I started writing a lot of what ended up on this album there. We were contemplating the end of the decade, the ends of a lot of people we knew, the ends of many naive and misguided ideas we had about things having grown up in the insulated, drug-drenched suburbs of South Florida..." He goes on to say, "These songs really came out of a weird sort of twilight world of so many things ending, and such uncertainty as to what the inevitable new beginnings would actually turn out to be. In the end The Veda Rays still turn it into a party though, for sure!"

The first seconds of the opening track “All Your Pretty Fates” lead to a dreamy, fierce unease pulsing constantly through the album – on to the hypnagogic thump of “Honey Pot”, the dream-jangle psych of “Out on Love”, the cinematic oscillation of “This Time Tomorrow”, and the night sky open space of “Deleted”, which includes an appearance by guitar wizard Juan Montoya. Through it all though, The Veda Rays create a seamless yet dynamic record that demands to be played loud and often, revealing more with each stereo-engulfing, brain-rewiring spin. As Stark says, “Art provides a way for these vagaries to take on lives of their own."

Stay tuned for an upcoming EP of songs from the album remixed by the new electro duo Light Lines, plus a remix of the track "All Your Pretty Fates" by legendary DJ/producer Scott Hardkiss.

http://www.thevedarays.com