Citay is an American,
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
-based
band currently released on
Dead Oceans
Dead Oceans is an American independent record label formed in 2007 and based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Dead Oceans is part of Secretly Group, which also ...
. The band was formed in 2004 by Ezra Feinberg as a studio project with Tim Green from
The Fucking Champs
The Fucking Champs are a three-piece rock band from San Francisco, California. They are known for their heavy metal sound, based largely around shifting time signatures, guitar harmonies, and plentiful rhythm. Most songs are instrumental. They ...
, and some help from others. There is now a live band including members of
Tussle
Tussle is an American four-piece band from San Francisco, United States, formed in 2001 by Nathan Burazer, Jonathan Holland, Alexis Georgopoulos and Andy Cabic. The band released its first album, ''Kling Klang'', in 2004 on Troubleman Unlimited. ...
, The Dry Spells, Sean Smith, 3 Leafs, and
Daevid Allen
Christopher David Allen (13 January 1938 – 13 March 2015), known professionally as Daevid Allen, sometimes credited as Divided Alien, was an Australian musician. He was co-founder of the psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine (in the UK, 1966) ...
's University of Errors. Citay performed at the
South by Southwest Music Festival
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in 2007 and 2008.
Instrumentation
The band uses acoustic and electric guitars, electric bass, keyboards, drums, and other percussions. The band's sound includes guitar harmonies, long instrumental sections, and Beach Boys-like vocals. The sound has been described as psychedelic pop-rock.
Discography
*''Citay'', 2006, Important Records (CD),
Frenetic Records
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* The Frenetic Five, a series of interactive fiction ("text adventure") games for a wide variety of platforms
* ...
(LP)
*''Little Kingdom'', 2007,
Dead Oceans
Dead Oceans is an American independent record label formed in 2007 and based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Dead Oceans is part of Secretly Group, which also ...
(CD), Important Records (LP)
*''Remixes'', 2009,
Dead Oceans
Dead Oceans is an American independent record label formed in 2007 and based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Dead Oceans is part of Secretly Group, which also ...
*''
Dream Get Together'' (2010)
References
External links
Citay MySpaceSF Weekly reviewSeattle Stranger reviewTiny Mix Tapes reviewLA Record interview with Ezra Feinberg
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Musical groups from San Francisco
Psychedelic rock music groups from California
Dead Oceans artists