Michael Beach is a San Francisco-based musician who writes, records, and performs under his own name, and as a member of Melbourne-based trio Electric Jellyfish. Since 2008, he has put out records on the Ecstatic Yod, Peru’s Tacu Tacu Records, Twin Lakes Records and Spectacular Commodity.
‘Mountains + Valleys,’ Beach’s latest solo release, comes on the eve of a second US tour for 2011, a year that also saw him tour Europe and Australia in support of his previous single, ‘A Horse.’ This time around, Beach assembled an all-star cast of West Coast musicians, including drummer Utrillo Kushner (Comets On Fire) and Raymond Raposa (Castanets) on guitar and vocals. Spectacular Commodity’s limited edition cassette has now SOLD OUT (check record shops for availability), but the album is also available as a limited edition CD-R on Tacu Tacu Records starting December 2011.
Electric Jellyfish will be touring the US in March 2012, with both Michael Beach solo and Electric Jellyfish playing shows at South by Southwest in Austin.
“Drifting from crunchy post punk, to woozy psychedelic drift, to countrified rust belt songsmithery, and several other stops in between… Gorgeous stuff for sure.” – Aquarius Records, Dec. 2011