Anywhere is a

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project from

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, founded by Christian Eric Beaulieu (formerly of

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). Anywhere has featured a revolving door of musicians, including

Cedric Bixler-Zavala Cedric Bixler-Zavala (born November 4, 1974) is an American singer and songwriter. He is the lead singer and lyricist of the progressive rock band The Mars Volta and the only constant member of the post-hardcore group At the Drive-In, for whic ...

Mike Watt Michael David Watt (born December 20, 1957) is an American bassist, vocalist and songwriter. Watt co-founded and played bass guitar for the rock bands Minutemen (1980–1985), Dos (1985–present), and Firehose (1986–1994). He began a solo ...

Krist Novoselic Krist Anthony Novoselic (; ; born May 16, 1965) is an American musician and activist. He was the bassist and co-founder of the rock band Nirvana. Novoselic and Kurt Cobain formed the band Nirvana in 1987 along with drummer Aaron Burckhard, ...

Dale Crover Dale Crover (born October 23, 1967) is an American rock musician. Crover is best known as the drummer for Melvins and has also been the drummer for Men of Porn, Shrinebuilder, Crystal Fairy and, for a brief time, Nirvana. He is also guitari ...

and Jonathan Hischke.

Biography

First line-up

Anywhere began as a Los Angeles/

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collaborative project started by Christian Eric Beaulieu and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (of

The Mars Volta The Mars Volta is an American progressive rock band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 2001. The band's only constant members are Omar Rodríguez-López (guitar, producer, direction) and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (vocals, lyrics), whose partnership for ...

At the Drive-in At the Drive-In was an American post-hardcore band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 1994. The band's most recent line-up consisted of Cedric Bixler-Zavala (vocals), Omar Rodríguez-López (guitar, vocals), Paul Hinojos (bass), Tony Hajjar (drums) ...

). Fresh off years of writing and touring as co-founder of Bay Area acid punk extremists Triclops!, Beaulieu decided to immerse himself in the resonant universe of acoustic guitar and began performing solo under the monike
Liquid Indian
In early 2010 while in Los Angeles to perform at an art opening of mutual friend artist Sonny Kay, he befriended Bixler-Zavala who was a DJ for the event. The two exchanged numbers and planned to record something acoustic rooted in the open tuning, eastern raga style Beaulieu was delving into. Months later the pair met in Los Angeles, enlisted the mobile engineering talent of Toshi Kasai (Big Business) and tracked the new material in two days at the

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practice space in downtown Los Angeles. During that same visit Beaulieu played live on '' The Watt from Pedro Show'' as the musical guest of

(of

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, Firehose,

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). After the show before leaving San Pedro, Beaulieu realized they needed bass for the recordings and boldly asked Watt if he'd contribute. Watt agreed immediately and a few months later delivered the entire projects bass tracks. Returning to San Francisco, Beaulieu decided to reach out to vocalist Rachel Fannan, who had recently parted ways with Bay Area psych rockers Sleepy Sun and had relocated to Los Angeles. Having never met Beaulieu before, Fannan generously contributed vocals to two of the songs, while Bixler-Zavala performed vocals on three tracks leaving the rest to exist as instrumentals. While searching for a label to release the album, Beaulieu solicited the talent of SF psychedelic poster artist

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. During a meeting to discuss art concepts, Forbes revealed that he, along with his Secret Serpents business partner Justin Mcneal, had started a label called Valley King Records. They agreed to release a pair of singles as a series of limited edition silk-screened cover 7"s, all signed and hand numbered by Forbes. "Pyramid Mirrors" was released in November, 2011; the entire limited pressing of 500 sold out entirely on pre-order. The second 7", entitled "Infrared Moses", followed in March 2012. On March 20, 2012, it was announced that the self-titled debut album by Anywhere will be released by All Tomorrow's Parties Recordings. It was first available exclusively as part of Record Store Day 2012 which took place on April 21 and was limited to 500 copies on 12" aqua coloured vinyl (with Download code). The regular CD, LP & digital releases followed on June 4 in the UK, available vi
ATP Recordings official site

Second line-up

In 2013 a new, expanded line-up of Anywhere was formed, this time featuring

(of the Melvins and Altamont),

(of

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and

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), Jonathan Hischke (of Dot Hacker,

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and EV Kain), Bret Constantino and Matt Holliman (of Sleepy Sun), Ethan Miller (of

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and Feral Ohms), Phil Manley (of Trans Am) and Cyrus Comiskey (of Drunk Horse and Howlin Rain) alongside Beaulieu and Kasai. The first release by the new line-up was ''Olompali'' EP, released by Valley King Records on a limited edition 12" picture disk with the art by Alan Forbes.

Third line-up

On August 26, 2014, Valley King Records announced a third line-up, including Cedric Bixler-Zavala,

, Christian Beaulieu, Jonathan Hischke, Bret Constantino, Greg Rogove and others, with work on a new release being in pre-production stage. In May 2018, an album entitled ''Anywhere II'' was released featuring

, and

Discography

Albums

*'' Anywhere'' (ATP Recordings, 2012) *''Anywhere II'' (Valley King Records, April 2018) ecord Store Day First release/small>

Singles/EPs

*"Pyramid Mirrors" (b/w "Dead Golden West"; Valley King Records, November 2011 - 7" vinyl only pressing of 500) *"Infrared Moses" (b/w "Anywhere"; Valley King Records, March 2012 - 7" vinyl only pressing of 500) *"Olompali" (Valley King Records, October 2013 - 12" vinyl only pressing of 500) *"Light The Portals" (Valley King Records, July 2016 - 7" vinyl only pressing of 300, box set edition of 75)

References

External links

Anywhere on ATP Recordings website

Anywhere on Valley King Records website

Liquid Indian bandcamp page
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