Mason Jones
Mason Jones is a San Francisco-based guru of noisy, post-psychedelic, post-ambient, post-cosmic and post-industrial music. His manifestos were the first two collections of experiments released under the moniker Trance, Automatism (1991) and particularly Audiography (1993), whose compositions range from symphonic movement to ethnic watercolor. The formidable wall of noise of Delicate Membrane (1996) began the saga of Jones' Subarachnoid Space, featuring Melynda Jackson on guitar. The pieces were fully improvised, the sound was majestic, and the mood ranged from suspenseful trance to sheer horror. Ether Or (1997) showed that the distance between their therapeutic mayhems and free-jazz was negligible. The idea was further refined on Almost Invisible (1997), a massive hodgepodge of astral chaos, frantic ragas, oceanic psalms and abstract soundpainting that represented an ideal soundtrack for the marriage of heaven and hell. Jones had virtually resurrected early Pink Floyd and provided their biography with an alternative ending: a terrible mutation of A Saucerful Of Secrets rather than Dark Side Of The Moon. Endless Renovation (1998), a more sophisticated variant on that idea (that quoted casually from Frank Zappa, Terry Riley or Colosseum) and The Sleeping Sickness (1999), a collaboration with the Walking Timebombs (the Pain Teens' Scott Ayers), simply increased the stylistic confusion.
Also ran the Charnel Music label.