Maidavale & Acid Rooster

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MAIDAVALE

Hailing from various backgrounds both musically and geographically, Swedish psych wonder MaidaVale have had the ability to capture audiences with their spirited energy ever since starting out on the Stockholm underground scenes a decade ago. The band combine neo-psychedelia and krautrock with influences ranging from post-punk, funkadelia and the North African blues.

With acclaimed debut "Tales of the Wicked West" (2016), they quickly took on big european rock scenes and festivals. More kraut influenced sophomore album "Madness is too Pure" (2018) confirmed the band's place in the psych rock scene with its bold and experimental take on the genre, nominating them for the Swedish music prize P3 Guld in the rock category alongside acts like Graveyard.

On their third album 'Sun Dog', working with producers Kalle Gustafsson Jerneholm (The Soundtrack of Our Lives) and György Barocsai, MaidaVale paint with a larger, bolder and brighter color palette, immersing themselves more than ever into their unique take on neo-psychedelia. The album has appearances from Tinariwen's Said Ag Ayad and guest mixing from John Agnello (Kurt Vile, The Black Angels).

Among the band's live performances, some notable highlights are Manchester Psych Fest, Burg Herzberg Festival, Rockpalast, Barcelona Psych Fest, Sweden Rock Festival, Bordeaux Psych Fest and Desetfest Berlin. MaidaVale has toured extensively with bands like Kikagaku Moyo, Goat and Earthless in Scandinavia and Europe.

ACID ROOSTER

With a sound that evokes the spirit of the German kraut and psych rock pioneers, the three Franconian musicians from Leipzig celebrate exciting, free-thinking instrumental music on their partly written and improvised songs and have established a firm place for themselves in the international scene. Their new album will be released on the three labels TONZONEN (EU), CARDINAL FUZZ (UK) and LITTLE CLOUD RECORDS (US).

The character of all ACID ROOSTER releases is characterized by their respective creation process. For example, the cosmic, swirling "Ad Astra" was created as a one take during a private garden party. The basic structure of the four tracks on the new album was recorded in July 2022 on two off days of their first UK tour at Dystopia Studios in Glasgow with Scottish producer Jason Shaw. It was only later that the three childhood friends added overdubs to the tracks recorded live in their adopted home of Leipzig, turning "Hall of Mirrors" into an extremely multi-layered, very psychedelic soundscape. In addition to guitars and percussion instruments, saxophone, shruti box, synthesizer, mellotron, flute, vibraphone and much more were added. The album was mastered by Grammy-nominated engineer Joseph Carra at his Crystal Studios in Australia (responsible for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard albums, among others), who was so immersed in the recordings and captivated by the soundscapes that he enthusiastically called producer Jason Shaw to say that he hadn't had the chance to work on such a melodious and interesting release for years.

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