Gone Gone Beyond is the synergy of David Block, Danny Musengo, Kat Factor, and Mel Semé, delivering a potent message of hope and the desire to return to humanity. The band captures the story of beautiful uncertainty in an ever changing world. Their music pays homage to the traditions of folk-americana songwriting while bringing together a myriad of influences from electronica, jazz, soul and world music. Gone Gone Beyond is painting a new kind of sonic landscape, and it sits between the roots of the California redwoods and the vastness of the Pleiades constellation.
 
Their music has been described as "mesmerizing future folk" (Consequence of Sound) that blends organic and electronic music. Following the success of their new LP “2030”, Gone Gone Beyond have had their music featured on a number of high profile films and shows, including Netflix’s “First Kill”, and have played a range of events and festivals including Coachella, Lightning in a Bottle, the UN General Assembly, and Red Rocks.

Where the desert meets the forest is the land Haunted Summer inhabits – called by many things, the chaparral biome is the lush arid landscape of Los Angeles, that may have given rise to a rare musical harmony.  Mixing LA-trademark harmonious psych-rock with an even more decadent stream of acoustic dream pop, song sorcerers & husband-and-wife Bridgette Moody & John Seasons create rapturously organic tracks from the truth of the heart.

 

Hailed internationally, their debut full-length Spirit Guides helped push a band with lots of momentum to the next level.  The album accentuates the underwater qualities that blossom within their sound palette – a true shoegaze expedition through beautifully ambient lands.  “Sour Grapes” is a blissful treasure of the rarest form, as are even some of the fuzzier & heavier tracks such as “Every Step” – amplifying the heat but keeping the air & pressure cool.

 

Haunted Summer’s 2nd LP “Whole”, recorded with producer Be Hussey, discovered a chillness & a lightness that breaks into a new realm of palatability.  It is as peaceful as the quaintest dwelling, yet harmonically challenging & interesting in the abstract elevated moods that can entrance & take you over. The tones on “Whole” create a space that a folk orchestra would produce inside of a wooden dome, the resonate sounds of Topanga acts like Spirit, Linda Perhacs, America, Simon & Garfunkel & always some Brian Wilson percussion & arrangements.  A pantheon of pure aesthetic melancholy, meant to harmonize the chaos.

 

“Whole” (out via label LaunchLeft) was inspired by friends and fans the band had met while touring, and also by growth and loss. The title song “Whole (A Song for Taylor)” is about Bridgette Moody’s formative friend and former band mate who passed away in 2018. The album is a concept of reaching one's full capacity through pain, loss and love, something that became even more relevant in the current climate we find ourselves in.