Biography

Portland, OR's shoe-gaze influenced psychedelic indie rock quartet Yume Bitsu consisted of guitarist/vocalist Adam Forkner, guitarist Franz Prichard, keyboardist Alex Bundy, and drummer Jason Anderson. 
 The group formed while students at Portland's Lewis & Clark College in 1995. They mixed lo-fi smears of echo-ing guitar with droning keyboards and swelling drums on their self-released debut 'Giant Surface Music Falling to Earth Like Jewels From the Sky' in 1998. 
 The album impressed imprint Ba Da Bing! Records enough for the label to release their self-titled sophomore album in 1999. Recorded over six months in a professional studio where Forkner was interning, the record layers countless guitar and keyboard overdubs onto their sprawling 10min+ songs, interwoven with tracks of drifting ambient sound collage. 
 Forkner's studio engineering work with K Records' Calvin Johnson led to the release of Auspicious Winds in 2000 and The Golden Vessyl of Sound in 2002, both recorded at Johnson's Dub Narcotic Studio and released by K Records. 
 Adam Forkner went on to release electronic music under White Rainbow, then Airboy Express. Alex Bundy released synthesizer music as Planatarium Music. Guitarist Franz Prichard released the new-age inspired record "Atlantean Waves" in 2003. Jason Anderson led the lo-fi power pop group Wolf Colonel until 2002, then went on to release folk music under his given name.