Obscured By Clouds Microcosmic Tour 2009 — Laser-Light Show with Mindbender!
Greetings Sentient Beings!

Obscured By Clouds’ humble summer tour kicks off with shows in the northwest culminating in our CD party release show at the infamous Whisky a Go-Go waiting for the sun in fantastic L.A. AUG 28th Friday night. If our paths cross please come hang with us….

LASER-LIGHT SHOW: On June 26th Friday night we will be playing in Seattle at Columbia City Theater with the famed Laser-Light Show of Mindbender who designed software & lasers for many planetarium & museums laser Floyd fantasy shows across the N.W. & U.S., including Australian Floyd, Burning Man and OMSI! Hang with us and have a microbrew with extra lasers! Come claim your out of body experience – he is going to float three-dimensional astral beings over our heads. Are you experienced? Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Chris Cornell & Aimee Mann have played here…but not with freak’n lasers!!!

Honda Motors & Yahoo have selected one of OBC’s songs “Cast Close The Gate” to stream to 120 million estimated listeners via their Honda Motors Music Widget. At least we finally now know what a widget is!

AUG 28 FRIDAY: Whisky a Go-Go - Los Angeles, CA
JULY 29 Studio Seven – Seattle, WA
JULY 3 FRIDAY: The Comet Tavern – Seattle, WA w/ WitchBurn & Valis
JULY 1 Dante’s – Portland, OR w/Echo Helstrom
JUNE 26 FRIDAY: Laser-Light Show Columbia City Theater – Seattle, WA w/ Echo Helstrom
Advanced Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/71346
SEPT 12th TBA Portland, OR
AUG 7th or 8th TBA Portland, OR

Reviews from: Classic Rock Magazine, Shindig!, and Creem below!
Interviews in: ProgressionMagazine.com, BlogCritics, INK19, Expose.org, Cosmogaming.com links below.

RADIO: PORTLAND: KNRK 94/7 & HD and KUFO 101.1, SEATTLE: KEXP Library & KISW Interest.

NEW CD HERE: http://www.obscuredbyclouds.net/buy_stuff/buy_cd.html
Obscuredbyclouds.NET or http://www.myspace.com/obscuredbycloudsband :
http://www.myspace.com/psycheclecticrecords

“…Contemporary touchstones are Type O Negative and Mastodon’s artier moments. Floyd devotees set the controls for arty grunge. …Although obviously conversant in UK 70’s prog, Portland’s William Weikart also knows his way round a doomy riff and a grunge melody. …When they stick to the more straight forward heavy psychedelia however, the results are exceptional and impressive.”
- Classic Rock Magazine London April 2009

“Tough, fervid and intense, at various times over the course of Psycheclectic they resemble a more inspired Soundgarden with a bigger paintbox. …It’s surprising and instructive to discover how well their brawny, muscular, scruff-of-the-neck acid rock offsets and complements… It’s an aural entente between UK and US psych templates, no less…” - Shindig! Magazine London

“An ambitious prog-rock album where surface-sutured layers of trippy textures and trances melt into ominous simmering swatches of deep-seated psychotronic sensations before slowly coalescing together again.” - Creem Magazine

“There is so much going on within this album that it takes many plays to fully explore the multi layers and sometimes disguised dimensions it contains. The production…is first class. …Both psychedelic and eclectic drawing from not only Floyd influences but releasing those energies and letting them go on their own journey…not only rewarding but is also fascinating and compelling. It is a brave move… “Cast Close the Gate” which opens with strident guitar work before developing into an extraordinarily accomplished track underpinned by some clever and effective drumming. “Love’s Love” appears with a wonderfully rich opening section and highly evocative lyrics.”
- Jeff Perkins Blog Critics Magazine - Seattle Examiner Online

“…The album takes great inspiration from Pink Floyd, but really stands with its own persona. …Obscured By Clouds takes what they heard and learned from Pink Floyd and adapted it to their own play. And the thing is, these kids rock. Using “psycheclectic” as a portmanteau of “psychedelic” and “eclectic” very much describes the album itself. …Different songs (would) be described as everything from classic rock to feedback experimentation to folk to perhaps even Celtic in its epic descriptions of landscape and emotional impact. “Soft Cheeked and Worried,” …flows from stark acoustic guitar emulating the barren desert with splashes of piano and moves to electric guitar playing just on the edge of feedback. “Zoë Zolofft” works as an homage to Syd Barrett in a “song about a girl, a sitar, and modern pharmakinetics”, creating the “sonic imagery of the splintered spokes of a broken and wobbling wheel.” “Love’s Love” calls up images of love personified “with a Floydishly acoustic accompaniment.”
- Jeff Provine Blog Critics Magazine - Seattle Examiner Online