TW-Hd: Upsilon Acrux "Radian Futura"

Tracks: A1. In-a-gadda-devito / A2. Landscape with Gun and Chandelier
A3. Keeping Rice Evil / A4. The Infinitesimal Fractions of Ping & Pong
A5/B1. Transparent Seas / B2. Prelude to Forshadow’n

Phil Cobb: Keyboards
Paul Lai: Guitar
Chris Meszler: Drums
David Moeggenberg: Guitar
Marty Sataman: Bass

Recorded and Mixed by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Sound
Mastering by Brad Blackwood and Pete Lyman
Front painting by Rob Sato, Back by Allison Schulnik

Embossed, Full Color Heavy Tip-On Cover / 180 Gram Vinyl Edition of 500Sound Samples, Shows, Etc - myspace.com/upsilonacrux

Upsilon is from Los Angeles via Vista, California.

Radian Futura is an intense, loud and unbelievably intricate album.
The music is demanding - a mesmerizing and constantly shifting onslaught driven
by genuine rock energy, melody, emotion--

At the album's center is “Transparent Seas” a 28 minute epic which stands as one of the most astounding pieces of rock-based music since the prime album era.
It's Impossible to fully take in and constantly reveals new forms, passages, meaning...
Memory means everything and nothing here.

Upsilon's most ambitious record- and a crowning achievement.

REVIEWS:

"Within ten seconds of Radian Futura beginning, listeners are thrown into the maelstrom of changes that is the band’s calling card. Upsilon’s sixth album is another serious assault on the senses, with a paradoxical mix of intricacy and immediacy... This is heavy, intense and often beautiful instrumental music... (a) high-speed palimpsest rock delivered by serious devotees of free jazz, wild prog, hardcore and post-rock." - Richard Elliot, PopMatters, October 2009

"As Radian Futura makes abundantly clear, this is not the kind of outfit that throws in a simple, catchy tune for the sake of accessibility. In a newly rejiggered lineup of the band, Paul Lai and David Moeggenberg's guitars and Phil Cobb's synthesizer lines cross, dodge, and detonate against each other in so many different directions it's sometimes difficult to remember which way is up, but pretty much every direction feels like the right one. In the end, these compositions -- and they are carefully crafted compositions, not just some riffs and runs thrown together -- are like an elaborately arranged maze that you don't need to find your way out of in order to acheive satisfaction." - Jim Allen, Prefix, March 2009

"Upsilon Acrux conveys the utmost in discipline and regimentation via these intensely executed compositions. The musicians dish out a labyrinth of captivating perspectives with swirling unison choruses and the guitarists' seething crunch chords. With thrusting grooves, and split-second deviations, they throttles back the pulses, and then revs it all up akin to a drag racer getting the green light.

The 28 minute "Transparent Seas" is the ensemble's magnum opus... it gravitates towards a climactically driven sequence of events, marked by swirling and tumultuous movements. It seemingly proceeds at the speed of light, and its not casual listening by any stretch... it's a mesmeric journey into a vastly populated musical wonderland." - Glenn Astarita, All About Jazz, September 2009

"Transparent Seas is one of the rare rock tracks to retain shape and interest at such marathon length, this time in the distant, brutal manner of observing an elegant 1960s moderne house disintegrate in whorls of pink and green fire."
- Ron Garmon, LA Record, June 2009