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Ad Astra Per Aspera
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Good music lasts and good bands evolve. After seven years and over two hundred shows, Ad Astra Per Aspera is more than music: it’s an all-ages, open-invitation collective dedicated to all things small, epic, lakeside and beautiful. It’s a collection of inside jokes, broken down vans, mix tapes, prank calls, histories and pre-histories that snowballs through all seasons.
Beginning in 2001 in Lawrence, KS, Ad Astra Per Aspera practiced for a year before introducing their music to friends and friends’ basements. After releasing their first seven-inch, An Introduction To, Ad Astra Per Aspera got their shit together and hit the road. Between releases and tours, the band played warehouses, record stores, gallery spaces, living rooms and industrial medical centers.
In 2004, Ad Astra released a four-song EP, Cubic Zirconia, a spooky, pretty EP that travels the back roads of Kansas with no headlights and no destination in mind. They toured aggressively and leaked oil all over the Midwest in a battered short bus. Between 2005 and 2006, Ad Astra worked on their full-length, Catapult Calypso, a marriage of sleigh bells and rhumba shakers, easy front porch rhythms and furious punk breakdowns, free jazz and Monterey pop. They visited Texas for South by Southwest, New York for CMJ and skated around the country on an inch of highway ice.
Beginning in 2001 in Lawrence, KS, Ad Astra Per Aspera practiced for a year before introducing their music to friends and friends’ basements. After releasing their first seven-inch, An Introduction To, Ad Astra Per Aspera got their shit together and hit the road. Between releases and tours, the band played warehouses, record stores, gallery spaces, living rooms and industrial medical centers.
In 2004, Ad Astra released a four-song EP, Cubic Zirconia, a spooky, pretty EP that travels the back roads of Kansas with no headlights and no destination in mind. They toured aggressively and leaked oil all over the Midwest in a battered short bus. Between 2005 and 2006, Ad Astra worked on their full-length, Catapult Calypso, a marriage of sleigh bells and rhumba shakers, easy front porch rhythms and furious punk breakdowns, free jazz and Monterey pop. They visited Texas for South by Southwest, New York for CMJ and skated around the country on an inch of highway ice.
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Catapult Calypso
Ad Astra Per Aspera
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Shoutbox
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secretpassage wrote:
cubic zirconia
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rafomaniac wrote:
great band....unique tasty sound!
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jorgerock21 wrote:
can someone upload ther albums cant find them anywhere
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ashlito wrote:
kansas pride.
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tak_pravda wrote:
favorite band of mine
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cwall wrote:
love voodoo economics. hopefully they play in lawrence this summer
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dreadnought757 wrote:
Even though I live in KC, I'd managed to miss these guys until tonight where I saw them in St. Louis of all places. It's a damn shame I hadn't seen them before...they're great.
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Pohrin wrote:
I can't find their album anywhere. D: Great music.
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clkndggr wrote:
Thank you for representing Kansas. We need more creative role models like yourselves.
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thesleepies wrote:
this is what music should be: completely unbridled
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Doorvak wrote:
yeah i definitely found these guys randomly looking through the a section of our independent record store in town. New album is awesome
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parano1dandro1d wrote:
so fucking good.
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whatever_x wrote:
i love goodland at night.
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Mynoreti wrote:
I AM THE PALM TREE, A RECONSTRUCTION
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helixhuxley wrote:
Kansas is blessed to have such minds and bodies here with us. Throw another biology book on the fire and sing some Ad Astra (and drink one too, Free Staters)!
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Mynoreti wrote:
whoa, the number of listeners has certainly shot up recently. must be the new album. it's good. :]
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afultz wrote:
I've been waiting for you guys to come back to louisville, or anywhere near louisville, ky. Maybe cincy or nashville? Last time I saw you guys it was 2004. It was a good show and I love the new stuff. -april
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dunandafalls wrote:
muy bueno
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dilute wrote:
amazing stuff
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Mynoreti wrote:
love
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News
Ad Astra 5 / Arkestra activity for Fall 2009.
7 Sep 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/adastraperaspera
1) Plan to see Ad Astra Per Aspera's only show in 2009 on Saturday, December 26th - most likely in Lawrence, KS. 2) the Ad Astra Arkestra! has several shows coming up this fall - check out some live r. …
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2 Feb 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/adastraperaspera
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Sfiera tagged Ad Astra Per Aspera with ‘location:us:ks:lawrence’. Wednesday afternoon
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Sfiera tagged Ad Astra Per Aspera with ‘location:us:kansas:lawrence’. 23 days ago
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mankvill added Ad Astra Per Aspera to the lineup of Ad Astra Per Aspera at Jackpot Saloon. 27 days ago
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TrishaMVW tagged Ad Astra Per Aspera with electronica and local. 29 days ago
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telosmachina tagged Ad Astra Per Aspera with local, indie and alternative. September 2009
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telosmachina added Ad Astra Per Aspera to telosmachina’s library. September 2009
- Ad Astra Per Aspera posted a news item ‘Ad Astra 5 / Arkestra activity for Fall 2009.’. September 2009
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