* PREORDER * SPROTON LAYER - Press Your Hand And Feel the Whole Room Fluctuate LP

* PREORDER * expected to arrive Sept

Highly recommended.

The Miller Brothers, Roger (Mission of Burma etc), Laurence (Destroy All Monsters etc) and Benjamin (Destroy All Monsters etc) grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Their first band, which covered 13th Floor Elevators, Love, Kinks, Yardbirds, performed two shows summer 1967 (ages 15 and 13). In 1969, their spontaneous improv. session "Freak Trio Electric" sealed the fate towards Sproton Layer. With a complete belief in weed as the doorway to an alternate universe, Roger began a furious bout of composing that spring. A few recordings were made in 1969 with one mic on the ping-pong table, and Mark Brahce (who recorded ‘With Magnetic Fields Disrupted’ 8 months later), set up his first session with the band. The best of these recordings make up the "1969" side of "Press Your Hand and the Whole Room Fluctuates."

At the end of August 1970, Mark Brahce recorded ‘With Magnetic Fields Disrupted’ in the Miller family rec room, and the band promptly folded when they got no notice or response. Their brand of psychedelia was on the wane.

Strangely enough, With Magnetic Fields Disrupted' was released in 1991 on New Alliance Records, and, in 2013 to much greater notice on World in Sound Records. They reformed for a series of 5 shows in 2013 with Steve Smith on trumpet.

The "1969" side of ‘Press Your Hand…’ consists of songs that didn't make it onto 'With Magnetic Fields Disrupted', and the "1971" side are all spontaneous Free Rock/Space Jams, with their very unique take on this matter.

After Sproton Layer folded, all brothers kept active and continue creating music. In chronological order, after the demise of Sproton Layer: The Fourth World Quartet, Empool, Destroy All Monsters, Mission of Burma, Nonfiction, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Exploded View, Porcelain Hammer, The Sensorium Chamber Ensemble, Tinn Parrow and his Clapfold Platune, Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble, and many many more.