Joe Turner has always sung and played a variety of instruments, so when his previous outfit (noted psych/folk/space rockers Abunai!) called it quits last summer after five-plus years, he got off their drum stool and back to work on some new sounds of his own. After organizing the highly successful Terrastock 5 festival was over, he began to make a year and half of unemployment worthwhile by focusing on his music. 

Now the solo floodgates are open with the self-release Dollar Star CD-R EP and the expansion of "Dollar Star" into the full-length Camera Obscura CD Between Two Seconds. Both releases run a patch cord between meditative gauze-rock and full-on rocking psychedelia. He's got plenty of inspired experience to draw on, having played onstage with The Lilys, Barbara Manning, Damo Suzuki (Can), Brother JT, and Nick Saloman (Bevis Frond), as well as performing several times with the Boston Rock Opera. Joe's song contributions to Abunai! had left a clue as to the layered, melodious urges that he'd been harbouring, and now those urges are ripe for the rock harvest. 

Resources:

Artist's Web Site

CAM067CD - "Between Two Seconds"

Check out the free MP3s on this page

Abunai! Homepage