Album Review: “Each song pulls me in, making it hard to skip a song.”-**** Austin Town Hall

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Amazon: http://amzn.to/amazonpresale

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

-Arthur Schopenhauer

ALBUM REVIEW: “Celestial Electric murmurs lightly over the psyche, a lyrical ghost of somber regrets highlighted by the classic ’60s and ’70s swinger-era retro Italian psychedelica, Brazilian tropicalisimo, Serge Gainsbourg-era yé-yé style vocals, and the glittery crackle of modern electronica.”

“Celestial Electric is a masterful symbiosis of decades worth of soundtrack music, the sexy underbelly of many vintage genres, and the keen, experimental musicianship of AM and Shawn Lee.”- Nadia Noir

Read more: Album Review: AM & Shawn Lee Resurrect Sexy ’60s Psychedelica And Exotic Electronica http://streetdate.radio.com/2011/08/30/album-review-am-shawn-lee-resurrect-sexy-60s-psychedelica-and-exotic-electronica/#comment-9417#ixzz1WXYPMhaZ

Get it here now or at your local record store September 6, 2011:

iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dark-into-light-single/id448694941
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Into-Light/dp/B005B25D0Y

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

-Albert Camus

Join Shawn Lee and I as well as the band and other friends and music lovers next Wednesday, August 31st for the listening party celebration for “Celestial Electric” at Verdugo bar as part of the monthly Rendezvous series. We’ll have an advance test pressing of the record so it’ll be played start to finish on vinyl! Guest DJ’s spinning your favorite OST’s and vintage grooves. It’s free!

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

-Kierkegaard

Check out the video A Bigger Plan made for AM & Shawn Lee’s song Dark Into Light . Presale tickets available now to see AM & Shawn Lee on tour.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Dark Into Light is Seattle’s KEXP’s Song Of The Day

What they say:

“The resulting pool of creative inspiration blends influences from pop, soul, funk, jazz, Brazilian tropicalia, Turkish psychedelia, and soundtracks and library music from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s into a melodic blend of electro-soul that would make even the most hardened hipsters bob their heads. Today’s featured song, “Dark into Light,” most immediately calls to mind a more upbeat Thom Yorke, with a grimy bass over light percussion and gentle but empassioned vocals, strung together with gliding synth swirls and pads.”- Nick Heinlein, KEXP

New album Celestial Electric coming soon.

mp3 is free click here

Antonio Carlos Jobim- Wave

iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/wave/id352717

AM Sounds – Rendezvouz DJ Set 8.3.2011 by AMSOUNDS

We will be playing live on KEXP in Seattle on September 13 at 9am and that same night at Sunset Tavern.

“I loved it, I hated it, and I had to hear it again. By then it was too late, as I had fallen for the twosome’s tropicalia-infused version of dance-pop ..sounds the most like a sunny day in São Paulo. … it recalls so many acts I enjoy, like Kraftwerk, the Beta Band, Air, Phoenix, and Juana Molina…”- Seattle’s Lineout The Stranger, Katherine Fennessy

http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/03/summer-breeze-am-and-shawn-lees-celestial-electric

“Their new album, Celestial Electric, was a bi-nation love affair in its making. They have traded beat skeletons via email and have taken time, Lee in London and AM in Los Angeles, to flesh them out into fat and lively golems…”  – Magnetic Magazine

Interview here: http://magneticmag.com/2011/07/am-shawn-lee-and-me/

Second part here:

http://magneticmag.com/2011/07/dj-am-shawn-lee-parte-the-seconde-shawn-lee-doeth-returneth/

Mashable featured the behind the scenes video for the song Somebody Like You from the new album Celestial Electric out on September 6.

http://mashable.com/2011/08/01/shawn-lee-am/

LA footage documented by Christina Neferis. Edited by Christina Neferis.

Somebody Like You- AM & Shawn Lee by AMSOUNDS

AM & SHAWN LEE DARK INTO LIGHT TOUR

August 31      Rendezvous Verdugo Bar Vinyl Listening Party     Los Angeles, CA
September 6 Instore Lous Records      Encinitas, CA
September 7  House of Blues                  San Diego, CA**
September 8  Live on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic
September 8  House of Blues                 San Diego, CA**
September 9  The Greek                          Los Angeles, CA**
September 10 Cosmopolitan                   Las Vegas, NV**
September 13 Live on KEXP                   Seattle, WA
September 13    Sunset Tavern               Seattle, WA #
September 14 Mississippi Studios          Portland, OR#
September 16  Fox Theater                      Oakland, CA**
September 19  Middle East                      Boston, MA#
September 20  Kung Fu Necktie             Philly, PA $
September 21  Black Cat                           Washington DC $
September 22  Mercury Lounge             NYC , NY $
September 23  Lovin’ Cup                       Rochester, NY #
September 28 Troubadour                      Los Angeles, CA #

**w/ Thievery Corporation
$ co-headlining with Fool’s Gold
# AM & Shawn Lee headlining

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

-Michel Foucault