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10 tracks | 50 minutes
Released Dec 2006
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:36 No Rest Part III lyrics BUY MP3 06:36 No Rest Part III lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:36 No Rest Part III
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:42 Wind lyrics BUY MP3 01:42 Wind lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:42 Wind
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:33 Aim to Please lyrics BUY MP3 05:33 Aim to Please lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:33 Aim to Please
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 08:43 Interference lyrics BUY MP3 08:43 Interference lyrics "GIFT MP3" 08:43 Interference
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:58 Conversing with the Dead lyrics BUY MP3 05:58 Conversing with the Dead lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:58 Conversing with the Dead
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:37 In lyrics BUY MP3 01:37 In lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:37 In
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:31 Can lyrics BUY MP3 04:31 Can lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:31 Can
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:19 Wait lyrics BUY MP3 03:19 Wait lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:19 Wait
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:11 Go Away lyrics BUY MP3 06:11 Go Away lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:11 Go Away
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:55 Motion Sickness lyrics BUY MP3 05:55 Motion Sickness lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:55 Motion Sickness
Experimental progressive rock; one foot firmly placed in a modern guitar theme park, the other floating in the 8th dimension. Adventures in music...
Bio / Background
Sprung out of progressive rock influences ranging from King Crimson to Gentle Giant, from Fred Frith to Al di Meola, and from Laurie Anderson to Frank Zappa, Gravity Tree mixes decidedly guitar focused modern experimentation with old school prog rock foundations.
Ten songs in all comprise the latest studio monster experiment Gravity Tree has cooked up: ULTIMATE BACKWARD. It's an entree of sound design sprinkled with 16th note triplets, served up on a hot plate full of guitar-drenched progressive flavor. This chef's special leaves no choice of dessert this time, however.
It is a new noise, a 21st century flavor that bears little resemblance to the sounds of modern radio airwaves. Why? Because everything you hear is performed and generated not by machines, but by 2 human beings. Those aren't drum loops. That's not a sample riff. And they aren't playing anything that can be easily categorized by today's industry.
↓ more ↓ULTIMATE BACKWARD features several brand new songs, including the next musical chapter in the NO REST journey, NO REST PART III. Also brand new is the nearly 9 minute epic, INTERFERENCE; and WAIT, a favorite on many music website playlists when it was released early as an album preview piece.
A few more old Gravity Tree prog 'standards' finally make it off the stage and into the recording studio. These include CAN (known live as "the Funk Tune"), GO AWAY (whose early live working title was RAIN), MOTION SICKNESS, and the band's live intro piece, IN.
Gravity Tree is pleased to include a new remix of AIM TO PLEASE. This piece was originally only available on the Bay Prog compilation CD, released a couple of years ago by Expose Magazine in limited quantities. A streaming clip from the song has held the number one spot on the Progressive Charts at NumberOneMusic (even though downloads were not offered). But now Aim to Please is available in its entirety to everyone, on ULTIMATE BACKWARD.
Finally, one of the band's oldest pieces is released for the first time. To answer the musical question "what does punk and prog rock have to do with each other", comes the musical adventure that defines Progressive Punk, CONVERSING WITH THE DEAD (Just in case you thought we weren't experimental).
This ain't Top 40. Listen if you dare...
(WARNING: this music is not intended to function as or represent dance music. Gravity Tree shall not be held accountable or liable for any injuries sustained or resulting from attempts to dance to the odd time signatures and angular polyrhythms contained in "Ultimate Backward".)
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