Rollercoasterwater’s new single “Avey Tare Said” takes you on an ethereal journey

into the musical subconscious. Inspired by a chance encounter with Avey Tare of

Animal Collective.

Following up the premiere of “Avey Tare Said” is the new EP Umami Sounding Fireball, due for release April 15th. The band moves in a new direction new direction on the album, combining a mix of electronic and live instrumentation.

Rollercoasterwater is a psychedelic pop duo that gets their influences from video

game scores, tribal indigenous music and infinite loop duplication. Emerging from

the outer suburbs of Los Angeles, the duo united in college with a vision of glitchy

patterns and hypnotic synths. Rollercoasterwater is two parts: one celestial and lush

melodies crafted by Chuckie Behring, and the other intricate rhythms manipulated

by percussive entity Robin Levy. The pair recently recorded Umami Sounding

Fireball as a progression into a more organic synesthesia sound with Glitch-Rock

hooks and colorful live drums.

Story Behind “Avey Tare Said” as Told by Chuckie Behring

“On Thursday, August 29, 2013 a friend of mine and I opened for Avey Tare (Dave

Portner) as Rollercoasterwater at the Echo in LA. It was my first show at a venue

and I was extremely nervous and excited to have such an awesomely random fluke

of an opportunity. We arrived for our sound check just as Dave’s band, Slasher

Flicks, was finishing theirs. After finishing, he immediately walked up to us and

introduced himself. He was super nice, and after we finished our sound check, we

had a few hours to hang out in the green room with him. While we were chilling in

the green room, Dave introduced us to his wife Angel Deradoorian (formerly of

Dirty Projectors) and we sparked up conversation about everything ranging from

their recent marriage to psychedelics. Dave started giving us all of this really

intensely profound advice about life and what being a successful psychedelic

musician in the current music industry is like. Him and Angel told me a lot of

personal stuff I won’t share, but he also told me that I really shouldn’t perform high,

and to play as many shows as possible and go on tour in a van or something as much

as I can. I don’t know if he realized how much of an impact he made on my 19-year-

old mind, but that night is still one of the most awesome nights of my life so far. Our

performance went super well and the audience was kind of like ‘Who the hell are

these guys,’ but I think they liked it.”

“‘Avey Said’ was written right after that night and it took me several years to perfect

it. I took what he said to heart and the next few years of my life after that night up

until now have been a crazy whirlwind of psychedelic artists and involvement in

underground movements around LA like Church of Fun and AndFam or performing

to goat ravers around a fire pit with contortionists at Zorthian Ranch and at

Salvation mountain near Salton Sea and many other crazy stories. For me, I think it

all spurred from this encounter with Dave and the advice he gave me. Hope you like

the song!”