Feel free to kick back and relax with a webcast of our debut album.
Super 8 Soundtrack is available globally from our dear friends at Indiepages.
Compact discs are $10 and cassette tapes from Best Kept Secret are $6 postage paid.
Over a dozen years ago, our lo-fi adventure began in an old flour mill near the east bank of the Willamette River.
A surplus four-track, orphaned instruments and a pile of songs fortified what was affectionately known as the Bastille.
Brothers and best friends gathered together for heartfelt hootenanny and extemporaneous outbursts of rumpus.
Odes to Ramona Quimby, Picabo Street, and Buckminster Fuller found their way into worn microphones.
Lost loves were fondly remembered on bicycles, hopping boxcars and walking along rainy streets.
It grew into a diverse collection of local stories all bound together by serendipity.
After giving it a listen, we hope that you will want a copy of your very own.
"Sauvie Island Moon Rocket Factory have put together a wonderfully dreamy cassette.
It's songs are drenched in reverb, it's textures are nicely layered, and it all works beautifully.
The opening song, 'Almost Ramona,' has a Mazzy Star feel;
with nice steel guitar and vocals traded by David and Linc.
It makes me feel like I'm on a quiet beach at sunset.
Elsewhere, a trombone is utilized to interesting effect
on the familiar, but not, 'Pedalnaut.'
Super Eight Soundtrack reminded me a lot of Big Star's, Sister Lovers.
I kept expecting to hear, 'Stroke it Noel.'
My friend Melanie said it sounded 'old' which I think was a compliment."
Rob Christensen
Tape Op
Issue #13
"Sauvie Island Moon Rocket Factory's music is all spelled out in their name.
Their songs have the laidback, bohemian-life-in-the-country feel of groups
like Ladybug Transistor and Neutral Milk Hotel, making appropriate the reference to Sauvie Island,
a wildlife-centered landmark near Portland.
Yet, their songs are also positively space-bound.
Guitars sneak in and out, voices sing with abandon,
and moods and colors swirl around our ears.
These are traveler's songs for journeys into your own dreamworld."
Dave Heaton
Erasing Clouds
Issue #12
"Sauvie Island Moon Rocket Factory is the Portland, Oregon based duo
of David Klopfenstein and Lincoln McGrath, with the help of numerous guests.
The music is acoustic lo-fi and usually has a floating psychedelic quality.
Influences that come to mind include John Lennon and a country spiced Byrds style.
The set opens strong with the excellent drifting 'Almost Ramona.'
'Picabo' is a similar but totally cosmic psych song.
'Tunnel Traffic' is a pop-psych tune with an almost Herman's Hermits sound.
'Pedalnaut' reminds me of the old Rolling Stones flowery psych style,
though the Rocket Factory inject their own little embellishments of strange sounds.
'Mrs. Cooper' is another of the bands trademark Lennon styled tunes.
And I love the whining trippy guitar licks on 'Doppler.'
These guys really do a lot with just a little."
Jerry Kranitz
Aural Innovations
Issue #22
"There are dancing records.
There are break-up records.
There are records for manic positive energy and for dragging feelings of doom.
There are also records like this one...
You almost need a hammock to appreciate Super 8 Soundtrack,
because the songs blow by like a web of gossamer,
their gentle harmonies brushing your subconscious as they waft upward in the warm breeze.
Even when you try to pay attention, the lyrics flit away in butterfly wing bursts,
dissolving into fragments, leaving you not quite sure that you've guessed any of them right at all...
They create a kind of acoustic shoe-gazing sound, shimmering and multi-layered but whisper-quiet.
The songs are not as surreally philosophical as, say Circulatory System,
but have the same otherworldly flavor.
There is also a strong Beatles influence, which reaches its acme in 'Old Salt.'
This air about love and age treats the same basic subject matter
as 'When I'm 64' -- although it is considerably less literal...
These ten tracks are all very pleasant
in a floating-down-the-stream-of-consciousness kind of way."
Jennifer Kelly
Splendid
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