Crystalized Movements: Independent Records and Updated Psych from the Eighties
You can’t pin point the end of Connecticut’s Crystallized Movements since the band ostensibly turned into front man Wayne Rogers’ next projects. The same players wouldn’t travel from band to band – or even from record to record. But what Roger’s is credited with during the early eighties is maintaining the tie between punky rock stuffs and psych freak-outs in the face of the Paisely Underground, the emerging shoe-gaze thing and reams of indie bands inflecting its music with faux-tripped out sounds.
First forming in 1979, Crystallized Movements was a basement project with Roger’s being accompanied by drummer Ed Boyden. Its initial recordings were all duo affairs with Rogers going back and adding additional guitar tracks to the whole thing.
