Ecstatic Music Band – Neon Love Devotionals
January 1st, 2025Formed in 2011, the Ecstatic Music Band are present day purveyors of the ur-drone first laid down by The Theater of Eternal Music 60 years ago. Featuring John Krausbauer and Jamie Green on violence, I mean violins, Kaori Suzuki on hello, I mean cello, and Joseph Hammer on hammered dulcimer, I mean bowed guitar, they splay out a massive sustained atmosphere that can best be described as Tony Conrad on steroids. Getting plumb tuckered out at just over the half hour mark, the group should’ve kept the party going for at least a whole hour, if not longer. Drone on? Right on!