smoke ring days

Smoke Rings Days first formed in 1993, the product of the re-pairing of musicians Rick Eppedio and Cindy Keyser-Posner, who had worked together previously as Barbarian Lovers. Desiring to update the synth-based sound they had pioneered with the Barbs, and anxious to explore a more guitar-driven and socio-politically-oriented genre of music, the band put out 'The Healing Time' in 1994, an album which was comprised of a dozen new tracks, ranging stylistically from alt-country/Americana to folk-rock to modern blues.

Venturing out to play live, both as a duo and with the addition of various musicians and friends, the band - which has been compared by critics to acts ranging from Fleetwood Mac to Pretenders to REM - was a regular part of New York City's Greenwich Village music scene during the mid-to-late 1990s. In the autumn of 1999, the pair released the ?best of' album 'Songs of Simple Dreams,' an amalgam of re-claimed Barbarian Lovers songs and new Smoke Rings Days compositions dedicated to Cindy's dad, long a behind-the-scenes supporter of the band. ?Sins of Commission' and ?Da Capo,' two collections of new and previously-unreleased material, followed in 2001, the year the band acquired their state-of-the-art digital studio. Since that time, the creative collaborators have busy composing and recording, working on two projects simultaneously, the political pop of Smoke Ring Days and the trippy world beats that comprise SpiceHouse, samples of which can be found on this website.