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Recorded in Albuquerque, NM over roughly two years, "Caravan East" sounds like timeless cross-sections of 'burque, distorted, reverberated, psychedelic, and sun-drenched. The GRAL Brothers are Greg Williams (drums, percussion, tape loops, effects, mixing, production) and Alex McMahon (guitars, pedal steel, bass, effects) recorded the partially in Empty House Studio with Matthew Tobias, in living rooms, bedrooms, vacant desert lots, airport terminals (field recordings). This is Instrumental Desert Music...with elements of psychedelia, spaghetti westerns,sci-fi, and ambient, and Americana. Think of this as a soundtrack to a David Lynch that doesn't yet exist. Weird, eerie, and distorted, yet strangely familiar and comforting. For fans of Ennio Morricone, Calexico, Explosions in the Sky, Tom Waits, The Desert Sessions. Welcome to Caravan East.

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• For fans of Calexico, Ennio Morricone, Pink Floyd, Tom Waits, classic country and spaghetti westerns.

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' Gral Bros' sand-blasted, western insturmentals evoke memories of post-rock pioneers Grails', tapping into a parallel paronamic and nostalgic vibe. The dreamy psychedelia of 'Cactus Man' being a prime example of this, as is the beautiful, bucolic stringed instrumentation on 'In Die Pizzaria'. This is just the tip, however, with scores to explore on 'Caravan East'. Favorite track: Cactus Man.'

     —M. Henaghan, Bandcamp

Twangy Morricone-esque guitar slides into drips of pedal steel and back out again in a dizzying carousel of textures while underneath is a steady slightly blown out bit of beat that feels like a lost overdub from Tom Waits 'Raindogs' album.

     —Blake Edward Conley , Somewhere Cold