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BRINGING YOU INCREDIBLE GOOD FORTUNE

 

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The Good Tidings

On a Holy Shit scale of 1-10, I'll give this sucker an 11. HIGHEST recommendation.

- Jerry Kranitz, Aural Innovations

A full wall of sound that envelopes you and leaves you feeling like you have been transferred back in time to an early Hawkwind, or Grateful Dead gig.

- Lee Walker, FireBrand Magazine

#1 Best album of the month September 2014.

- Berndt Sievers Eclipsed rock magazine

It's not easy to return to normal life after this incredible good experience, or to other music.

- Klaus Reckert, Gaesteliste.de

Spectacularly lush and inventive psychedelic soundscapes

- Gabriel, Ride With The Devil ezine

Best album of the year by a mile.

- The Sleeping Shaman

Could be one of the top releases in 2014.

- Rotation 11

#8 in the top 20 albums for the month.

- Eclipsed rock magazine September 2014

Um dos melhores discos de 2014 está aqui. (translation)

- Nuno Teixeira, El Coyote

Best band and album October 2014.

- Carlos Vaz Ferreira, Progressive Rock & Progressive Metal ezine

3rd Ear Experience certainly will please every fan of unbounded psychedelic and space rock.

- River Tree

This is energetic and powerful. Like all good space music.

- Gary Hill, MSJ

Stoner rock meets space rock meets world music.

- Music Street Journal

Space Rock at its best, powerful and expressive.

- ProgArchives

3rd Ear Experience reaches beyond the customary rock and jam band stratum. At times defined as space rock or experimental rock, listeners are finding there really is no limit to the band's horizons.

Noe Gutierrez, Coachella Valley Weekly

The Trip

When driving through the Mojave Desert the road seems to go on forever, and a certain trance-like awareness takes over. Now and again, a volcanic rocky outcrop will sidle up to you and whisper timeless tales into your mind, like an ancient mariner. Then you are alone again as the road serpentines into wide vistas and distances, carrying you along on its hypnotic shoulders. You will not remember when the shaman climbed into your car to sit silently next to you, like a hitchhiker who will vanish before you reach the next sun-broken desert town. And then there is the voluptuous night sky, with its myriad stars arching over the great darkness, continuously reminding the poet and the musician of the infinite nature of all things. These are the carving tools 3rd Ear Experience uses to sculpt music from the silence.

"3rd Ear Experience certainly will please every fan of unbounded psychedelic and space rock." (River Tree, ProgArchives)

INCREDIBLE GOOD FORTUNE is the third album by 3rd Ear Experience. Once again the band delivers a sonic journey of epic proportions recorded live in the Furst Wurld Performance and Art Gallery in the Mojave desert. The album title is taken from a book of poetry by science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin.

"3rd Ear Experience reaches beyond the customary rock and jam band stratum. At times defined as space rock or experimental rock, listeners are finding there really is no limit to the band's horizons." (Noe Gutierrez, Coachella Valley Weekly)

The word 'experience' is really the key here. The music is a guide to your imagination. It conjures images and feelings like a good movie soundtrack. Only YOU are the final writer surfing the cosmos on an ocean of tonal colors and sound.

"This is energetic and powerful - like all good space music." (G. Hill – Music Street Journal)

 

The Road

2013 - 2014 saw the band attracting favorable press internationally and, most notably, by The Eclipsed magazine who voted 3rd Ear Experience's BOI album 18th of the 100 best albums of the year.

The band was also honored to open for the Swedish stoner band, the Truckfighters, on their 2013 USA tour.

Robbi is quick to acknowledge that he has experienced incredible good fortune in his musical journey. Fortunate to have been exposed to African shamanic rites as a teenager, to have been soaked in Indian music due to his mother running a Tibetan center, to have been the only white guy in an 8 piece jazz band where he lived illegally in the South African townships and reservations, to having achieved legend status with his 3 piece rebel punk band, the Asylum Kids, to have broken new ground in world music with his African acid outfit, Tribe After Tribe, to have toured the world, including opening up for Pearl Jam, to have recorded 2 albums with Jeff Ament called Three Fish which was heavily influenced by Sufi music and to have co created 3 innovative kirtan based albums with his wife Amritakripa. In 3rd Ear Experience a revitalized Robb has found a place to allow all this incredible good fortune to flourish.

Musicians

Amritakripa – synthesizers, Voice
Robbi Robb – guitars, Voice
Jorge Bassman – Bass guitars
Erik Mouness – Drums, Percussion
Eric Ryan – Guitars
Alan Swanson – Keyboards

Guests

John Whoolilurie – Saxophone
Billy Shire – Mouth Organ
Roger Arnold – Flute
Don Lombardo - percussion

Album details

Produced by Eric Ryan and 3rd Ear Experience
Recorded and Mixed by Eric Ryan
Mastered by Mark Fuller @ Mark Fuller Mastering
All music copyrighted 2014 Thousand Thunders Music
Artwork by Amritakripa
Photographs by Mike Smalley
EPK by André Wilms

 

The Sounds

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The Aliens

3RD EAR EXPERIENCE

Third Ear Experience

MAY ALL BEINGS HAVE INCREDIBLE GOOD FORTUNE AND THE CAUSES OF INCREDIBLE GOOD FORTUNE

 

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