Music Style ambient, space, drum 'n' bass, Intelligent (IDM)

Musical Influences Orb to Genesis

Similar Artists Amon Tobin, Plug, Scorn

Artist History Spaceship Eyes is the vehicle of Don Falcone. To date, he has recorded 10 full-length CDs with various bands and projects, and he has contributed songs to more than 22 compilation CDs spanning many genres of music -- from ambient to space music to drum 'n' bass. Plain and simple - Don loves to play music, many kinds of music. So, how did he get started? Ambient guru and Silent Records founder Kim Cascone asked Don to join Thessalonians, and soon after that Spice Barons, and Satellite IV. Don was also an original member of space rock band Melting Euphoria, handling keyboards, lyrics and vocals on their critically-lauded debut album, "Through The Strands Of Time." Spaceship Eyes started as a solo project in 1996 producing the CD "Kamarupa." The CD was included on Backroads Music "Best of the Year" chart for 1997. Later that year, Don signed Hypnotic/Cleopatra Records. ? By 1998, a 12" remix of Spaceship Eyes' "Cheebahcabra" was released, as was the second full-length CD by Spaceship Eyes "Truth in th e Eyes of a Spaceship," [see review]. For this CD, Don assembled guest artists: ex-Hawkwind member Harvey Bainbridge, master remixer Freaky Chakra & DJ Pen (from Thessalonians). Spaceship Eyes third CD "Of Cosmic Repercussions" on Hypnotic Records was release in 2000. [see review] Spaceship Eyes' "Mind The Alien" was the first track in the movie & on the soundtrack of "Better Living Through Circuitry." He also recently released a CD called Spirits Burning "New Worlds By Design" Gazul Records. Contributions include many members of the worldwide space rock community (Daevid Allen, Steven Wilson). Other pet projects: ambient compilation "Where Stalks The Sandman" [Noh Poetry], Grindlestone, PsiClub, and ambient world-jazz project - Quiet Celebration [Gazul/Noh Poetry].

Group Members Don Falcone@

Instruments Kurtzweil 2500, Audicy, Bass Guitar, Udu, Vox

Albums "Kamarupa" [1997, Noh Poetry] ; "Truth in the Eyes of A Spaceship" [1998, Hypnotic] ; "Of Cosmic Repercussions" [2000, Hypnotic]

Press Reviews Of Cosmic Repercussions "Spaceship Eyes is San Franciscan synthesist Don Falcone, and on his third CD, he successfully merges his space music roots into a hallucinatory, ambient electronica. Falcone orchestrates kinetic environments full of clanking machi nes, navigating virtual geometries on tracks like "The Mystery Of The Leaping Fish." By turns dark and dizzying, Spaceship Eyes summons up the demons on the malevolent grooves of "OCR (For Protection)," while "Vapor" takes a more euphoric trip through spa ce in a collaboration with another ambient unit, the Spice Barons. With one of the more original rhythmic palettes of recent electronica, Falcone's percussion designs sound like a Rube Goldberg contraption on acid, taking acoustic tablas and morphing them into jungle grooves on "Big Martian Dog Hop" and alternating jazz riffing with a heavy-metal death march on "Keep Yourself Healthy." Spaceship Eyes' repercussions may not be cosmic, but they are exhilarating." -- Michael Paoletti, Billboard, Nov. 18, 2000 [Critics Choice] *************Truth In The Eyes Of A Spaceship "West Coast techno scenester Don Falcone has been a tireless collaborator and team player since the early 90's, but on his own, he's proved himself capable of creating some strikingly original music. Falcone's high-energy drum & bass is, more accurately, drum, bass 'n' bleeps, as he deftly inserts all manner of spacey sci-fi sound effects into the mixes, along with the more expected but very creative use of turntable scratching and vocal samples. Falcone also uses some of the most imaginative drum programming this side of Autechre and Photek -- half time, double time, assorted polyrhythms - that'll have your appendages headed off in a different directions trying to track the beats. Put it all together, and it's a heady, disorienting brew." -- Bill Tilland, Alternative Press, November, 1998

Additional Info http://home.earthlink.net/~falcone/reviews.html

Location San Francisco, CA - USA

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