Yawning Man releases 'Rock Formations' (06.08)

Formed in the late 1980s, the lineup of Gary Arce, Mario Lalli, and Bill Stinson rounds out their yearlong active recording and touring schedule. Arce and Lalli’s background together date back to the start of YAWNING MAN with Stinson’s background steeped in the SST Records world through performing and recording with Greg Ginn and Chuck Dukowski of Black Flag for several years. Yawning Man is acknowledged and recognized throughout the underground heavy music community as a key piece in the developments of the desert/stoner rock subgenres. While their contemporaries gravitated toward the heavy riffs of grunge, and post-punk, Yawning Man leaned in another direction with their unique and organic, cinematic compositions and psychedelic improvisations...the perfect soundtrack to encompass the spacious moonscape atmosphere of the well documented "generator parties" of their area in the late 1980s. It was at these gatherings where they developed this distinctive style and sound by enchanting spectators with their seemingly endless free-form instrumental sessions, which echoed through the beautiful deserts, mesas, and landscapes of the Coachella Valley.

About their debut album 'Rock Formations', Mario Lalli declares: “This album truly reflects a point in our evolution as musicians where we touched on a sound that resonated with us to this day, while the band has been together since 1986 this album was essential to our growth and is very dear to us, we are very excited to be working with ripple music on this reissue."

TRACK LISTING:

1. Rock Formations

2. Perpetual Oyster

3. Stoney Lonesome

4. Split Tooth Thunder

5. Sonny Bono Memorial Freeway

6. Airport Boulevard

7. Advanced Darkness

8. She Scares Me

9. Crater Lake

10. Buffalo Chips

YAWNING MAN 'Rock Formations' (vinyl reissue)

Out August 6th on Ripple Music