Ahead of the career-spanning collection i’m still waiting. guitarist Mark Lightcap joins us to discuss the evolution and mythology of Acetone, his Southern California trio. “We’re just stirring this cauldron of musical information waiting for the flavor to congeal in a way that we like.”
Category: Acetone
All the Days and Nights: Drew Daniel (Matmos) on Acetone, Then and Now
On November 17, Acetone releases i’m still waiting, a comprehensive boxset featuring the band’s studio albums and unreleased recordings. Here, we present an exclusive excerpt from the boxset’s liner notes, by Drew Daniel of Matmos. “Acetone’s story is easy to miniaturize: they traded volume for space.”
The Ecstasy of Gold :: Volume One
The Ecstasy of Gold finds members of Acetone, Dick Slessig Combo, and Dengue Fever teaming up for a set that spans fuzzed out workouts, psych, prog flexes, surf, and sure enough, Morricone-y grandeur.
Bee Pieces :: Dorothy’s On Island Time (Featuring Mark Lightcap)
A blissful reunion of Acetone drummer Steve Hadley and guitarist Mark Lightcap, “Dorothy’s On Island Time” sways like a leaf on the air, barely suspended. From it the recently released Volume 1, the song allows Lightcap to get generously far out, playing it woozy and open. Though more compact than the average Dick Slessig Combo joint, it’s no less locked into a state of meditative charm.
Dick Slessig Combo :: Wichita Lineman
“Wichita Lineman” finds the Dick Slessig Combo harnessing the song’s original melodic components and locking in. Mark Lightcap’s guitar drifts and melts away, evoking Isaac Hayes’ super-spaced soul or Duane Eddy conjuring up celestial waves crashing on a cosmic beach; the rhythm section of Steve Goodfriend and Carl Bronson mind meld; occasionally an organ flutters. The song becomes a mantra.
Acetone :: Sam Sweet’s Hadley Lee Lightcap
The music of Acetone seems to exist outside conventional methods of timekeeping. Off to the side. Suspended and slightly warped. Likewise, the story told about the band in Sam Sweet’s […]