About

The Ecstatic Music Band is a trance-psych collective from the US West Coast. For the last thirteen years, the group has been performing and recording long-durational, high-volume, maximalist dronewerks on amplified acoustic and electric stringed instruments, employing tuning systems derived from the overtone series. A rotating posse of musicians has been the customary model since EMB's formation, with this newest recording finding the group in quartet configuration. Mainstay John Krausbauer along with his partner and frequent collaborator, Kaori Suzuki, are joined by close associate and polymath Jamie Green, as well as LAFMS’ purveyor of trance-weirdness, Joseph Hammer.

“Neon Love Devotionals” is the group’s third recording (and first for Debacle Records), following their 2017 release, “Approaching the Infinite” (Fabrica) and 2020 release, “Transmissions of the Sacred and Profane” (Beacon Sound). The music’s dense and dynamic fields of harmonic interference and reinforcement make for an immersive sound-field of complex emergent phenomena amid a flux of microtonal shading, beating tones, difference tones, and varied psychoacoustica.

Sonic veramusement of the radiating OM