ABOUT

Known for intense multimedia performances as well as subtle, varied recordings, Seattle's Midday Veil draw from an ever-deepening well of influences including improvisation, psych, folk, krautrock, drone, blues, noise, new age, metal, and a broad range of non-western and traditional music.

The band began in 2008 as the duo of David Golightly (synths) and Emily Pothast (vocals + guitar) and quickly expanded to include Timm Mason on lead baritone guitar and Chris Pollina on drums. In 2011 the band added Jayson Kochan on bass guitar and and Sam Yoder on percussion.

David and Emily are the co-founders of the record label Translinguistic Other and give site-specific audiovisual installation/performances as Hair and Space Museum. They are also members of the Portable Shrines Collective, which produces Escalator Fest, an annual psych/garage/experimental art and music happening in Seattle. Timm performs (and obsessively records) solo material as Mood Organ and runs a cassette label called Masters Chemical Society; Jayson flies solo as Airport. Simon Henneman has also performed and recorded as a member of Midday Veil.

SELECTED PRESS

"Midday Veil may be one of Seattle's very best next new things."

-Chris Estey, Three Imaginary Girls

"Eyes All Around is an album of perfect balance - a meditation on life and death, light and dark, ambient, near-subliminal blankets of sound and loud, jaw-clenching power. It is an album in the truest sense: oversized, vividly illustrated and providing an anthology of distinct, yet distinctly intertwined, songs, sounds and emotions."

-Ryan Muldoon, Revolt of the Apes

"Eyes All Around is one of those 'take you on a journey' recordings; it's a sensational round trip that's both exceptionally harrowing and blissful, mystical and earthy, cerebral and sensual. Mind expansion rarely is this sexy."

-Dave Segal, The Stranger

"Midday Veil skirt the lines of conventional psych rock, frolicking through folky meadows one song, and postmortem mantras and ritualistic rock the next, summoning the spirit of Portishead, right down to the sonic complexities and harrowing vocals, or late, great 90s post-rockers Hovercraft, or the vigor of Velvet Underground's 'Sister Ray.'"

-Travis Ritter, The Portland Mercury

"Is this a mere psychedelic rock record? ...Or is it a work of spiritual technology ...a channeling ritual that forces the listener to confront timeless themes of death and rebirth unconsciously?"

-John Gillanders, Review of Eyes All Around, Redefine Magazine

"...feels a bit like watching the birth of humanity from space."

-Joey Veltkamp, Best Of

INTERVIEWS/FEATURES

Erin Thompson, Midday Veil: Horse With No Mane. Seattle Weekly, 10/19/11.

Ryan Muldoon, Interview with Emily from Midday Veil. Revolt of the Apes, 1/1/11.

Dave Segal, Asymptotes Epic: Midday Veil's Oracular, Spectacular Psychedelia. The Stranger, 11/9/10.

SHOW REVIEWS

Tom Murphy, Midday Veil at Rhinoceropolis, 5/13/11. Denver Westword, 5/14/11.

Bobby Malvestuto, Midday Veil and the Arrington de Dionyso Experience. Seattle Subsonic, 11/15/10.

Palmer Sather, LIVE REVIEW: Escalator Fest II - Night 2. Seattle Rock Guy, 11/3/10.

Dave Segal, Midday Veil Arranges "Garden of Earthly Delights." The Stranger's Line Out, 7/23/10.

Nik Christofferson, Midday Veil's Psychedelic Wonderland at Sunset Tavern. Seattle Rock Guy, 4/6/10.

John Gillanders, Midday Veil, Moon Duo, Du Hexen Hase. Redefine Magazine, 2/18/10.

ALBUM REVIEWS

Jakub Adamek, Review: Midday Veil - Subterranean Ritual II. Weed Temple, 11/18/11.

Dave Miller, Midday Veil, Subterranean Ritual II tape. Foxy Digitalis, 9/2/11.

Dave Segal, Midday Veil's Subterranean Ritual II. The Stranger's Line Out, 7/26/11.

Chris Estey, Review of Eyes All Around. Three Imaginary Girls, 3/1/11.

John Gillanders, Review of Eyes All Around. Redefine Magazine, 11/3/10.

Kirk Van Husen, Review of Subterranean Ritual CDR. Foxy Digitalis, 4/10/11.