Full Tone Generator - Valley Of The Universe (New Full Album) Australian heavy rock outfit Full Tone Generator set a pretty high standard for themselves in the making of their debut album. The project, founded and spearheaded by guitarist/vocalist Andy Fernando, traveled to the Californian desert to record with none other than Brant Bjork at the helm as producer along with Bubba DuPree — he of Bjork‘s Low Desert Punk Band — and oh hey, Bjork also wound up drumming and contributing vocals to the album. Not too shabby. Valley of the Universe answers the call of its desert-dwelling goals, and has a few choice fuzzy jams to add variety to its more solidly structured material. Bjork makes his presence felt, of course, but is only part of the larger, sun-caked vibe.
Full Tone Generator started as an idea hatched on the beaches of Australia by Andy Fernando of Australian Stoner rock veterans Don Fernando, and bought to fruition in the Californian Desert by Andy Fernando, Brant Bjork and Brad Young. While Don Fernando were on a break in early 2018, Andy was looking for another outlet for his new songs and took it upon himself to contact the one and only Brant Bjork (Kyuss, Fu Manchu, Brant Bjork and the Low Desert Punks). Andy had met Brant while touring together in Australia in 2017 and the guys had developed a friendship over their mutual love of Gin, Rock n Roll and the Ramones. After some late night text messages and emails Andy sent Brant some of his new demos and asked if he would be interested in working together on a new project.
Andy’s vision was to take his new songs into the spiritual home of stoner rock and record them with one of the forefathers of the genre, Andy needed a drummer and producer, luckily Brant is both, Brant proposed that they head out into the desert and setup a mobile studio in a remote location to record an LP with Brant playing drums and producing the record with the assistance of Bubba Dupree. In June 2018 Andy and Brad headed over from Australia to Brant’s zainaland studio where he recently recorded his new solo album and laid down the debut album for Full Tone Generator – Valley Of The Universe. The album is available now for digital and CD preorder via Bandcamp.
