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"Campbell's music derives its essence from white light. Or, better yet, from an exploding star in some distant galaxy. Regardless of the source, Astral Social Club can only be described as pure bliss; ecstatic movement coupled with the pleasure of watching clouds go by ... Imagine placing sections of Terry Riley's Rainbow in Curved Air over the most blissed-out fuzz from Heroin." -- Foxy Digitalis Neon Pibroch, the brand new full-length CD from Astral Social Club, is dedicated to the memory of Textile Records founder Benoit Sonnette. Astral Social Club is the current project of Neil Campbell, formerly of Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sunroof!, A Band, and many more. Campbell's approach as Astral Social Club could be seen as both a continuation and a refutal of his work with Vibracathedral Orchestra--a continuation in that it continues the quest into the unknown stellar regions of improvised drone-based music, and a refutal in its espousal of most of the elemental organic rock modes that made that band so special. The focus here is more on alien electronics and overloaded loop disorientation, sometimes even working with sounds more readily associated with the far end of dance music, to produce a truly vast 21st century psychedelic sound. Although largely a solo project, Astral Social Club collaborators have included Tirath Singh Nirmala, Richard Youngs, and Arttu Partinen.