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The Listening is an American rock band originally from Washington and currently based out of Franklin, Tennesee. Touring extensively through North America and Europe from 2004-2006, the group largely disappeared over the following years until it resurfaced mid-way through 2008, announcing the release of a new EP before the end of the year; Gabriel Wilson has now become Director of Worship Arts at Lakeside Church in Folsom, CA while Josiah and Nolan remain in Tennessee. Jason now lives in Folsom, CA as well. The Listening still collaborates with each other by exchanging ideas and instrument tracks through the web. A...

Listening Center is the alias of drummer and electronic musician, David Mason. Drawing primarily from influences such as the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, lost film/TV soundtracks, and Kosmische Musik, Listening Center presents a patchwork of imagined pasts/futures, in which the listener can make his or her way through an undergrowth of dream-like melodies and electronic sound palettes which have the effect of being now reassuring, now unsettling. Having grown up in Ireland in the 1980s, David evidently internalized similar effects of synth-based incidental music from sci-fi and schools programs which found their way from the BBC to the TV set in...

Michael Tschudin led the Boston-based band Listening, but it is the contributions by former Velvet Underground bassist Walter Powers and guitarist Peter Malick which make this album historic. Powers performed over the years with keyboardist Willie Alexander as members of Capitol Recording Artist the Lost, the aforementioned Velvets, and on Autre Chose, a live album from Alexander released on New Rose in Paris. Peter Malick is best known for being Otis Spann's guitarist and a member of the James Montgomery Band on Capricorn. Their legendary status in Boston rock & roll history brings positive notoriety to the fine music on...

The Deep Listening Band (DLB) was founded in 1988 by Pauline Oliveros, (accordionist, Expanded Instrument System and composer), Stuart Dempster, (trombonist, didjeridu player and composer) and Panaiotis (vocalist, electronics and composer). David Gamper (keyboards and electronics) replaced Panaiotis in 1990. The band is named after Oliveros' term, concept, program and registered servicemark of the Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., Deep Listening, and specializes in performing and recording in resonant or reverberant spaces such as cathedrals and huge underground cisterns including the 2-million-US-gallon (7,600 m3) Fort Worden Cistern which has a 45 second reverberation time. Deep Listening Band recorded its first, self...