The Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound

Like a lost Fillmore broadcast scrambled in the ionosphere before crashing meteor-like into the Mojave sand—the Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound funnels a Technicolor panorama of California rock and roll history into soulful, high-energy nuggets of contemporary, bluesy choogle n’ fuzz and wistful moonbase laments. Born in San Francisco in the dim dawn light of the new millennium, The Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound is built around a core of three musicians, Jefferson Marshall, Sunburst 3 (M.I.K.E. Lardas) and Charlie Saufley, who stumbled upon each other from divergent experiences in funk platter dealing, heavy space pop brewing, noise punk scrambling and a shared love of raga, Mudhoney and Pink Floyd.

“A revolving auxiliary of players, including cartoonist and Theremin poet extraordinaire Anderson Lanbridge, and keyboard ace Ray Castro often spices up the Assemble Head’s live destructo-happenings and recorded events. In 2005, the Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound recorded their first record, a private press of 500 LPs that amalgamated the sound of Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Saucerful-era Floyd, Blue Cheer and the 13th Floor Elevators into a celebratory, bucolic and crusty shitstorm. In 2006, the Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound joined the Tee Pee Records roster and recorded a new L.P. with San Francisco engineer and production super fiend Tim Green (Melvins, Comets on Fire, Six Organs of Admittance.) The new release—which keeps an eye on the holy Crazy Horse/Floyd/Elevators trinity while exploring the houses that Bill Withers, Spirit, Blue Oyster Cult, the MC5 and Beach Boys built—is due for release on Tee Pee in March 2007.