Crystalized Movements

{{Short description|American psychedelic rock band (1980-93)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Crystalized Movements | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | landscape =  | alt = | caption = | alias = | origin = Tolland, Connecticut, United States | genre = Psychedelic rock | years_active = {{start date|1980}}–{{end date|1993}} | label = Twisted Village | associated_acts = Vermonster, B.O.R.B., Magic Hour, Major Stars | website =  | current_members = | past_members = *Wayne Rogers *Ed Boyden *Scott McLeod *Eric Arn *Kate Biggar *Teri Morris | module = | module2 = | module3 = }} '''Crystalized Movements''' were an American psychedelic rock/punk/folk band who recorded and performed sporadically from 1980 to 1993.

==History== The band was formed by guitarist Wayne Rogers and drummer Ed Boyden in Tolland, Connecticut when they were high school freshmen.<ref name="Mason">Mason, Stewart "[https://www.allmusic.com/artist/crystalized-movements-mn0000783314 Crystalized Movements Biography]", Allmusic. Retrieved February 8, 2018</ref> Rogers and Boyden were brought together by a love of late 1970s No Wave music and 1960s psychedelia. After years of improvisational experimentation, they decided to make an LP in 1983 and recorded duo versions of some of Wayne's songs.<ref name="Mason" /> They then split up upon graduating high school. Rogers, a longtime fan of the Plastic Cloud and Randy Holden, spent a summer piling on mountains of guitar overdubs.<ref name="Mason" /> The resulting 'basement prog' album ''Mind Disaster'', with Scott McLeod on vocals,<ref name="Raggett">Raggett, Ned "[https://www.allmusic.com/album/mind-disaster-mw0000257404 ''Mind Disaster'' Review]", Allmusic. Retrieved February 8, 2018</ref> was released at the end of that year in an edition of 130 (on Rogers' own record label, Twisted Village). After being discovered by record collectors, the album was reissued on Psycho in the UK in 1984.<ref name="Mason" />

Rogers put a full band together in 1985 before recording the next album: ''Dog... Tree... Satellite Seers'',<ref name="Mason" /> a scathing rebuke to "faux-lysergic posers".<ref name="Sprague">Sprague, David "[http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=magic_hour Magic Hour/Crystalized Movements/B.O.R.B./Wayne Rogers/Vermonster]", ''Trouser Press''. Retrieved February 8, 2018</ref> Guitarist Kate Biggar joined in 1988 upon Arn's departure (to southern California where he formed Primordial Undermind),<ref>"Primordial Undermind ''Loss of Affect''", ''The Wire'', Volumes 269-274, 2006, p. 69</ref> cementing the band's final lineup on the next album ''This Wideness Comes''.<ref name="Mason" /><ref name="Sprague" />

The 1992 album ''Revelations From Pandemonium'', on which Rogers and Biggar were joined by McLeod on bass and Teri Morris on drums, proved to be Crystalized Movements' finale.<ref name="Mason" /><ref>Mason, Stewart "[https://www.allmusic.com/album/revelations-from-pandemonium-mw0000098138 ''Revelations from Pandemonium'' Review]", Allmusic. Retrieved February 8, 2018</ref> The album received a three-star review from the ''Chicago Tribune'', with Peter Margasak describing the band as "at the brink of becoming unhinged and jumping into a great abyss of no-holds-barred psychedelia".<ref>Margasak, Peter (1993) "[https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/03/04/crystalized-movements-revelations-from-pandemonium-twisted-village/ Crystalized Movements Revelations From Pandemonium...]", ''Chicago Tribune'', March 4, 1993. Retrieved February 8, 2018</ref>

Following the demise of the band, the Rogers/Biggar duo, who had also recorded as Vermonster during their time in Crystalized Movements, have continued on in critically acclaimed groups such as B.O.R.B., Magic Hour (with Damon and Naomi of Galaxie 500) and the Major Stars, Rogers also releasing four solo albums in the 1990s.<ref name="Mason" /><ref name="Sprague" /><ref>Gross, Joe (2005) "[https://books.google.com/books?id=4HSJOu6uEvUC&dq=%22Crystalized+Movements%22&pg=PT32 This Is Hardcore]", ''Spin'', December 2005, p. 109. Retrieved February 8, 2018 via Google Books</ref><ref name="Shaer">Shaer, Matthew (2007) "[https://web.archive.org/web/20180209064615/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-12038089.html STARS ALIGNED; Wayne and Kate have been making music since the moment they met]", ''The Boston Globe'', December 14, 2007. Retrieved February 8, 2018</ref>

Rogers and Biggar married in the early 1990s.<ref name="Shaer" />

==Discography== ===Albums=== *''Mind Disaster'' (1983), Twisted Village *''Dog... Tree... Satellite Seers'' (1987), Twisted Village *''This Wideness Comes'' (1989), Twisted Village *''Revelations From Pandemonium'' (1992), Twisted Village

;Compilations: *''Damaged Lights - Early Recordings 1980-1983'' (1991), Twisted Village

===Singles=== *"Blown Over" (1991), Twisted Village *"The Lowest Step" (1991), No. 6

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:American punk rock groups Category:American folk rock groups Category:Musical groups established in 1980 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1993