Evan Caminiti - When California Falls Into the Sea

"Following the viscous guitar scree of 09’s ‘Psychic Mud Shrine,’ I’d have put money on Evan Caminiti veering even further into blackened doom metal territory. Instead, he produced an album which, despite its relatively low-key release on Three Lobed Recordings, deserves to mentioned in the same breath as Fahey, Connors et al as a stunning meditation on both the possibilities of the guitar and the vast American landscape. From the spectral harmonics that pierce the murk of opener ‘Night Of The Archon’ to the ominous clouds of distortion running through the climatic ‘Black Desert Blooming,’ ‘West Winds’ is a work of astonishing variety and emotional depth. And, in a year that was notable for a litany of stunning releases within the genre, just try finding a set of drones as jaw-droppingly vast as those that open ‘Glowing Sky."             -Drowned In Sound

"Evan Caminiti, one half of psychedelic drone-doom-duo Barn Owl, [produces] a constantly shifting landscape of hazy streaks of blurred melody, gauzy flecks of folk, soft tangles of reverbed twang, slow motion melodies rendered in thick slabs of coruscating guitar crunch, blissed out dronedrifts; this is epic, expansive, highly personal music for the soul."          -AquariusRecords

"When California Falls into The Sea", the product of more than a year's work, finds Caminiti shifting away from the evocation of the land elements and towards the urban- the coarseness of blood on the streets and people living in squalor juxtaposed with beautiful, fleeting moments like sun reflecting off of glass buildings into dingy puddles- to produce a dialogue where guitars float through the air weightlessly, weaving around each other like butterflies and other moments that are more solitary, monolithic excursions into the night.

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