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Quarkspace

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"Analog hippie meets digital space" describes Dane Carlson of Expose Magazine. "The new spacerock star" raves Francois Coutere of the All Music Guide. Cuneiform Record/Wayside music calls them "one of the best American spacerock bands. Combining songs, short and epic, with a communal knack for improv rarely seen in music, quarkspace rules the mystic galaxy

History:

quarkspace was formed in 1984 and was originally called Quark! "Space" was added later to stave off any potential lawsuits by a certain software company. College classmates - Jay Swanson on keys, and Kevin Wherry on bass were joined by the brother of a classmate - Darren Gough (guitar). They proceeded to work on cover material, planning to play frat parties and local bars. Fledgling singer-songwriter Chet Santia soon joined along with Darren's classmate, Paul Williams on drums. Whilst slaving over cover tunes by Zappa, Camel, Neil Young, Talking Heads, etc., plus a few originals - a knack for communal space jams became apparent. They spent 1985 playing those frat parties and local bars, along with some legendary parties at the home of a few band members and hippies called "The Hidden Moon".Paul and Chet both left in early 1986 to concentrate on school. The other members continued for about a year with another singer and a couple of drummers before Quark! went dormant for a period. In the interim, Jay released a couple of cassettes of homespun keyboard music. Paul played in a few bands (including the legendary New Druids) and released an ambient space solstice-music cassette. Dave Wexler had spent several years writing songs and playing guitar in bands along the west coast before meeting Paul in 1991. Quarkspace released its first CD in 1996 with Dave (and others) appearing as a guest. By the time spacefolds 2 was released, Dave became the newest member of the band. Since then quarkspace has done several successful live performances, released their live CD "Live Orion" and is working on their next studio double CD for release by the summer of 1999, with more spacefolds CDs planned for release along the way.

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