I am proud to announce my first booking for the brand new Carson Creek Ranch “Presents”! This will sell fast and we are adding more activities and VIP pampering for you daily! I love this team of D.A.M.E.s running the show!
CCR Presents Halloween with Ghostland Observatory. Expect dance party, laser light show, dancers, and the ultimate Halloween party!
About this Event
Date And Time:Thursday, October 31, 2019 Doors at 7:00 PM CDT
Genre:A Robot Making Love To A Tree
Band Members:Thomas Turner: all that is electronic and organic… Aaron Behrens: all that is………
Hometown:Austin, TX
About:Ghostland Observatory is not a band, but an agreement between two friends to create something that not only heals their beat-driven hearts, but pleases their rock โn roll souls.
Biography:Ghostland Observatoryโs entire approach to music โ sonically, aesthetically, conceptually โ is essentially a melding of the two distinctly different personalities of its two members, Thomas Ross Turner and Aaron Behrens. Whereas Turner, the producer/drummer/keyboardist of the duo, finds solace in the minimal, bleak cable-patch squawks of Karlheinz Stockhausen and the analog-disco-thump of Giorgio Moroder, Behrensโ interests lie more along the lines of psychedelia, rock and various country and blues artists.
The result is a shimmering, pulsing pop music that is at once kinetically alive with Behrensโ striking vocals and driving guitar work but also anchored firmly by Turnerโs percussive beats and Moog-generated melodies and hooks. Common descriptions include โelectro-dance rock,โ โsynth-funkโ and โFreddie Mercury-helms-Daft Punk.โ
Deciding to produce a style of music that as yet existed only in their collective consciousnesses; Behrens and Turner formed Ghostland Observatory in Austin in 2003 and haenโt looked back since. They now sell out prominent venues across the country, have played at Lollapalooza, Bonaroo, Coachella and the Austin City Limits music festival, which they headlined, and continue to play at various music festivals and venues around the globe to an ever increasing fan base, thanks to their now-famous live shows.
The duo has released four albums to date, all on Turnerโs label, Trashy Moped Recordings: Delete.Delete.I.Eat.Meat…, Paparrazi Lightning, Robotique Majestique and their latest offering, Codename: Rondo, which was recorded in Turnerโs Austin studio.
The ten-track Codename: Rondo is equal parts psyechedelia, minimal electronic, rock, funk and soul. It was recorded with what Turner calls a more โlinear approachโ in mind. Rather than layering sound upon sound to fill out a track, the band sought to use fewer sounds while striving to make each of them count.
Highlights on the new album include the first track, โGlitter,โ with its loping, fuzzed-out bassline, tremolo-tweaked vocals and Spaghetti Western guitar break. โThatโs Rightโ is a Cars-meet-ZZ Top ripper with the formerโs signature synth breaks skipping across the latterโs overdriven, chugging guitar riffs. Another standout, โMiracles,โ finds Behrens haltingly phrasing his lyrics in perfect syncopation with Turnerโs raw keyboard melody before exploding into an irresistible, hand-clapping chorus that is soon chased by running swells of disco strings. โCodename: Rondo,โ the albumโs title track, is a perfect example of the bandโs efforts toward minimal maximization: a surreal narrative recalling a series of nebulous incidents in Newark, New Jersey spoken over nothing more than a steady kick and some faint electronic warbling while, during the breakdown, deep space satellite transmissions blip intermittently over a loop of what seems to be a robot with hiccups and poor phone reception attempting to leave a voicemail.
With Codename: Rondo, Ghostland Observatory has taken a step in a new direction, both creatively and technically, while still maintaining the essential elements of their unmistakable sound: โsweaty, raw-boned, and direct from the future; committed to electronics, stuck on big beats, yet unmistakably powered by rock โnโ roll.โ