Meet your new crush.
With his new album Crush Depth - A Dub-Sonic Submarine Symphony in Four Sides, artist/composer Spacefuzz has forged a unique path through psychedelic experimental rock, landing at intense collision of poly-polyphonies and deeply emotional sonic microspheres set within a large-scale symphonic sonata form presented as a classic prog-rock double LP concept album archetype.
Artist: Spacefuzz
Release Date: March 7, 2025
Label: StupidIntelligente Phonographes
Website: https://spacefuzz.com
Bandcamp: https://spacefuzz.bandcamp.com Streaming & Social: Hyperfollow
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Excerpt from Crush Depth liner notes by Jesse Jarnow:
"All the world’s a concept album, William Shakespeare once wrote, or maybe it was Van Dyke Parks, but neither ever dreamed a night in Spacefuzz’s head, let alone a whole lifetime. The 4th or 7th or 10th album by the LA-to-Arizona underground music lifer, Crush Depth sets an interconnected suite of personal revelation to a majestic, playful sweep."
Jesse Jarnow is the co-host of The Official Grateful Deadcast, author of Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America (DaCapo), DJ at WFMU and contributor to Pitchfork, Wired, GQ and other publications.
Spacefuzz on Crush Depth
"I began working on Crush Depth immediately after completing the recording of Increvable! in January 2021. At the time, I was undergoing a number of major life crises, slowly learning how to live again, moment by moment. I've often felt that I lived inside of a submarine, protected (and isolated) by my personal vessel. I never felt I was able to truly connect or communicate with others. On the healing path out in to the real world, every new experience in the tentative post-pandemic world tested the ability of my emotional hull to survive the pressure. It was a daily test of my personal crush depth.
Musically, I was entranced by psychedelic-era music of The Beach Boys, particularly Smile and of course Pet Sounds. Brian Wilson's deft wielding of contrapuntal layers paired with the mental health forward lyrics of his collaborators Van Dyke Parks and Tony Asher inspired me greatly throughout the process of creating Crush Depth. It provided a spark that drove me to explore creating music that consisted of “counterpoints of counterpoints” that reflected the battle of realities that live inside the minds of many of us who have survived mental health challenges. This is why Crush Depth is dedicated, with gratitude, to Brian Wilson."
Composer/artist Spacefuzz (Charles Morogiello) has been active in experimental electronic music for thirty years. He is founder, guitarist and composer for Los Angeles-based, improvisational thrash-bop trio Kiss The Frog. He has performed or recorded with: Billy Martin (Medeski, Martin & Wood), Don Preston (Frank Zappa), Mark Karan (The Dead, The Other Ones, Ratdog), Stew (The Negro Problem), The California EAR Unit, The CalArts New Century Players. Charles studied composition with modern masters Mel Powell, Mort Subotnick, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, Harold Budd and many more. He currently lives in Phoenix, AZ with a six-year-old pug named Marty who provides improvised background vocals on all Spacefuzz albums.
Crush Depth
A Dub-Sonic Submarine Symphony in Four Sides
i
Crush Depth (4:33)
A Coloured Dream (10:15)
Canyons (5:15)
ii
Hello Bee (7:59)
Interrogate (6:05)
The Unexplainable (7:22)
iii
Surveillance (18:41)
iv
Deepwater Pursuit (Part 2) (13:50)
Shot Through The Heart and Shot Through The Head (7:01)
Produced, engineered, mixed, edited, composed, performed and created by Spacefuzz.
with:
Sleepyhouse wrote and performed the story on The Unexplainable, performed background vocals on A Coloured Dream, performed soul claps on Deepwater Pursuit
Maartijn Van Gunther performed background vocals on Surveillance and Deepwater Pursuit
and:
H.M. Newton created the undersea world that adorns the cover.
Mark Morgan Photography captured the submarine catastrophe depicted in the insert photo.
Jesse Jarnow wrote liner notes.
Todd Wills provided photography set design engineering.
Recorded 2021-2024 at The Blue Room in Phoenix AZ except:
Shot Through The Heart and Shot Through The Head recorded directly to DAT tape in North Hollywood 1999.
Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters
Lacquers cut by Phil Rodriguez at Elysian Masters
Pressed at Gotta Groove Records, Cleveland OH
Public Relations by Anita Lee Publicity, Los Angeles, CA.