My latest release was on Fuzz Club Records' The Reverb Conspiracy Volume III in 2015.
Since then I have been involved in a few collaborations, been working on some demos and now taking my time to record new materials with different approaches.
My goal is to release a record and I keep focus on this for the moment, so I have no hurry to share whatever new until this process is advanced enough.
I've recorded this track at home in Berlin, Jeff Levitz recorded some extra drones and his sitar playing in L.A, then I've put it all together and it has been mastered by Brett Orrison.
To talk more about this track featured on this compilation there couldn't be anything I could say much better than what has been written about it by several sources. So here are a few of these review :
From Francois Sky & Guests Facebook page
Published by François de Benedetti · 30 January 2015
The Reverb Conspiracy Volume 3 on Fuzz Club Records
[...] Upon reaching the final track of the collection, Francois Sky Featuring Jeff Levitz (another familiar name from The Brian Jonestown Massacre / The Warlocks), offer a moment of reflection with sitar riffs that the Gundecha Brothers would admire. The track cruises at a steady speed, bringing us back to the surface; the sound of space-travel-communication-beeps peppering the music from beginning to end. The bass serves to hypnotize the listener with its cool meandering, until the appropriately astronaut-resonant chatter signals the final stages of our arrival back to a soundless landscape. Its title, As We’ve Been As One, an appropriate summation of the overall feeling of the album. Throughout the aural experience you feel at one with the compilation’s other listeners; you feel you’ve joined a collective adding to an ever-growing greater entity. Yet you can’t help but forget its link with a psych scene that is dwarfed by the mammoth mainstream. Who cares though? Conspiracies are there to subvert the overruling powers; you’re here to keep music evil.
- Foci Magazine
[...] The Reverb Conspiracy Volume III is based on a magic spell, which takes the listener away into a world of hitherto unknown paths. The album ends with the epic song As We’ve Been As One by Francois Sky featuring Jeff Levitz; interwoven trance-like sitar melodies, a musical gentle yet powerful rolling thunder.
- Gold Music Magazine
[...] The Reverb Conspiracy Volume III liegt einem Zauber zugrunde, welcher den Zuhörer in eine Welt fernab aller bekannten Pfade lockt. Das Album endet mit dem epischen Song As We’ve Been As One von Francois Sky featuring Jeff Levitz. Ineinander verwobene tranceartige Sitar-Melodien, ein musikalisch sanftes und zugleich eindringliches Donnergrollen.
- Gold Music Magazine
[...] Francois Sky featuring Jeff Levitz, closes out this compilation with the track, ‘As We’ve Been As One’. A sitar tinged, sun soaked, reverb drenched offering, that will have you floating in a trance.
- Levitation
[...] As with any DJ worth his salt, the curators of this hand crafted compendium, having enthralled us on this supersonic roller-coaster ride, complete the assisted comedown of all comedowns with a worthy finale.
‘As We’ve Been As One’, courtesy of the enigmatic Berlin based François Sky, featuring sitar guru Jeff Levitz, envelops and cushions with a pulsatingly sumptuous splashdown in the Sea of Tranquility…
- Backseat Mafia / chromaticism
[...] Francois Sky wind up the release with a perfect exit song. Dreamy drone and sitar with a feel good bass and drums groove that conjurer up kaleidoscope visuals and float along into the distance.
- The Active Listener
[...] but here it signals the ride out, wonderfully supplied by François Sky on ‘As We’ve Been As One.’ Where The Oscillation’s ‘No Place To Go’ may have been a red-herring, ‘As We’ve Been As One’ is spot on, playing to the more encompassing bent here overtly in the title, and more importantly in its lengthy drape of diffusion that wraps up ‘Volume III.’
- Sunrise Ocean Bender
[...] while the whole affair closes with Francois Sky and the epic ‘As We’ve Been As One’.
- Clash Magazine
Fuzz Club Records and The Reverberation Appreciation Society
co-release The Reverb Conspiracy Volume 3,
Released on January 25th 2015"
Artwork by Jón Sæmundur Auðarson
(aka Nonni Dead) of Dead Skeletons)
Video by Psychoactiv
Tracklist:
A1. The Oscillation – No Place To Go
A2. Holy Science – Moon
A3. Deathcrush – You Now
A4. The History of Colour TV – Suddenlines
B1. Singapore Sling – You Drive Me Insane
B2. New Candys – Meltdown Corp.
B3. Sound Sweet Sound – Death Is On The way
B4. Undisco Kidd – Green Like An Alien
C1. Camera – Ausland
C2. Future – Side Effects
C3. Mugstar – Hollow Ox
C4. One Unique Signal – Tungsten
D1. Goat – Hide From The Sun (A.A.N Remix)
D2. Lola Colt – Away From The Water
D3. François Sky feat. Jeff Levitz – As We’ve Been As One.
