"SCARCITY OF TANKS is a band of peasants, mas que un club, formed and totally negated in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. No endowments and committed without compensation for defenders as Prince and Princess Pelado of Nothing. A light to oneself never needing you, rooted after the spitter shower und slow toe tongue lip of 1972, a shovel gimp to the skin-skin kid, breaker of displacement during 2004, a year of birth by Matthias Ming Muug Shank Infinite of Mannerisms Toward the Stunted Hate-Damaged Love (Matthew Wascovich), the eldest seed dried for no-glory, no reason other than reason, completely and habitually discontented with past and current goings on, after the case work, the class casting, the forthrightness of the only route, the terrible hole of honor not abated but with a mind found, without fear, insulated from the dumb, a handshake greeting with death." -- Leonard Lash, No One Man Access of the Holy Flower

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Sightings is a New York City -based trio of musicians, operating on the boundaries of rock and avant-garde sounds. The lineup consists of Mark Morgan on guitar, Richard Hoffman on bass, and Jon Lockie on drums. The band debuted with a 7" on the Freedom From label and has since released records through Load Records and Psych-O-Path Records. In 2010, the band's seventh studio album was released - "City Of Straw" appeared on Oneida's Brah Records.

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Some folks believe in guardian angels, benevolent beings that watch over us and protect us from harm. But what if there are other beings out there, also watching over us and waiting to make contact? Anybody who's flipped through, say, The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials, or has seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind, has most likely wondered: What if there are guardian aliens out there?

Brooklyn's Guardian Alien wonders this same thing. Loudly.

Helmed by Greg Fox -- a busy fellow who also drums in Teeth Mountain, Liturgy, Dan Deacon Ensemble, and Man Forever (Kid Millions/Oneida) and plays solo as GDFX -- Guardian Alien follow the road to enlightenment previously trod by the likes of Hawkwind and other space adventurers. If we're going to make alien contact, what's going to get their attention more, anyway? A 5-note ditty played on a xylophone or an 18-minute trance epic of guitars, synths, drums, and caterwauling vocals?

Here is a recent attempt at contact from a few weeks ago, recorded at the Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn. Greg Fox is on drums, of course, as well as Casio synth-guitar and throat singing duties, with Turner Williams on japanese banjo, Camilla Padgitt-Coles on synth, and on vocals and ecstatic dancing, Alex Drewchin (who, by the way, when she's not chanting to or howling at the stars, leads a completely different musical life as a singer-songwriter).

For more Guardian Alien, check out another live recording, released as Sing Like Talking, also on the FMA here. For more Greg Fox, there's plenty of Teeth Mountain and Liturgy on the FMA, as well as some GDFX, Guardian Alien's immediate precursor, including a great session on Talk's Cheap with Jason Sigal from earlier this year.

Be sure to have a look at Guardian Alien's MySpace page for more videos, helpful advice on how to behave if you are the first human to meet an alien, and other useful teachings

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