J. Spaceman

Vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jason Pierce — aka J Spaceman — is a traveling power in forward-thinking, hypnotic music with Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, and by himself. Pierce founded Spacemen 3 in 1982 with Pete “Sonic Increase” Kember, and during the period of albums such as for example 1987’s AN IDEAL Prescription and 1989’s Using Fire, the music group crafted a spacy, narcotized audio inspired from the Velvet Underground, La Monte Small, and Steve Reich, and utilized the motto “acquiring drugs to create music to consider medicines to.” Pierce extended on that audio in the ’90s with Spiritualized, providing the group a symphonic majesty on functions like 1997’s masterpiece Women and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space and 2001’s ALLOW IT Come Down. By himself, Pierce in addition has collaborated with Dr. John, the White colored Stripes, and Primal Scream, and released his 1st solo recording, Acoustic guitar Loops, in 2006. He came back in 2008 using the Spiritualized recording Tunes in A&E and Mister Lonesome, a cooperation with Sun Town Ladies that was also the rating to Tranquility Korine’s film from the same name. He also collaborated with American pianist Matthew Shipp, generating the recording SpaceShipp. Pursuing Spiritualized’s 2012 full-length Nice Heart, Nice Light, Pierce and Oneida drummer Child Hundreds of thousands collaborated for an improvisational live show at Manhattan golf club Le Poisson Rouge. North Spy released Live at Le Poisson Rouge on Record Shop Day in Apr of 2014. In 2016, Pierce collaborated with Chilean psych rock-band Föllakzoid while these were touring in European countries. London Classes, a 12″ EP of Spaceman-augmented variations of two tunes from your group’s recording III, premiered by Sacred Bone fragments in 2017.