Groop
This Place Is The Space
Los Angeles based improv collective Groop says: "Never the same song twice." Jams captured over the course of their ongoing 3 year residency at Zebulon in frog town, California. Each song developed on the spot live in front of an audience, then chopped and screwed by the band and their frequent studio collaborator (Grammy award winner) Mark Rains. "Think more Hawkwind, less Grateful Dead." The band, which features current and former members of Hooveriii, Frankie & The Witch Fingers, and Total Heat, has had a 3-year live residency at Zebulon, regularly working through long improvisations and exploratory prog forms with a goal of cutting and culling them into a new record. With an ear towards German progressives and '70s psych scorchers, the band mixes Hawkwind and Ash Ra Temple into heat hewn fusions of sound.