Hey StrangeOnes! Just a quick note to let ya'll know I'm back in Ft. Worth and rockin steady! Surgury wen't well, however all projects are now on hold pending the reformation of Strangefire. Upon leaving Florida, Strangefire disbanded once again, but prospects are good for the reformation. Tak is collaborating with and interviewing several musicians for a new release, already written but yet to be recorded. This will be the 3rd rendition of a musical project spanning 8 years. Stay tuned and StayStrange!

This is just a short update to let our fans know we wont be doing a StrangeTour as planned for this summer due to Taks' minor heart surgery. Not a real big deal for him, but he says in good humor "It must have got broke one too many times!" We wont just be laying around on the beach however. Our last CD (renamed "Embers") is still in copyright litigation, but it looks as if we will be able to re-release sometime later this year and will be able to publish here on SoundClick shortly there after. We apologize for the wait. We are also compiling material for the upcoming LIVE release of "Strangefire..Smoke and Mirrors" a compilation from StrangeTour '09. The line up will include live verions of "Hands of Time", Date With a Razor", "Embers", Black Heart", "Manipulative @#!*% ", Sometimes", "2019", "I Used to Love You", "What Time is It", "This is Your Life" and MANY MORE! We hae a Tentative release scheduled for Dec. 2010 and of course the CD will be available here. We'd like to than our fans for their continued support and patience, and we'd like to invite you to StrangeWorld (http://www.strangefire.ning.com) for great music from other artists plus a lot of good poetry, digital art, videos and more! Til next time StayStrange and keep on rockin!

Strangefire's Online b-sides release 'Thanxx 4 Not Asking' will be available for download June 21!!! The Online album will include 17 previously unreleased tracks recorded some time between now and 2004.
Strangefire is now busy at S&M Studios recording the full length follow up to last years 'Ezion' The Band is not releasing the name of the new album at this time. They are also busy filming the videos for 'Rolling Blackouts' & 'Reason Not To Rewind' so Stay Tuned for more Strangeness to come!!! This is the last CD available from the original members. Mike ash left the band in July of 08 and was replaced by Mike felmy on guitar and vocals.

Strangefire's Latest Creation 'One Sad Creature Of God' Is Now Available for your listening pleasure here on SoundClick(Free Download). The 30 minute expanse of Strange noizE is also being featured on Cosmic Elephant Radio and of course in the StrangeWorld.
Strangefire will now be going back into the studio to begin recording once again. Also Keep your eyes peeled for more Strangefire videos in the near future!!!!
until next time, Stay Strange!

Review by Ned Raggett

Having explored a queasy, often cryptically angry style of shadowy psych-tinged rock and roll on earlier releases, Strangefire on Ezion manage to sound more direct and more alien than ever, with songs ranging from orchestrated prettiness to squelching, echo heavy murk that could almost be dub productions. The lengthy album's seventeen songs have a lot of ground available for the duo and they live up to it, vocalist/guitarist Mike Ash's more straightforward work consistently tweaked and distorted by Tak!, handling everything else. While Ash hasn't always hid his darker lyrical side, the vicious growl of songs like "Reason Not to Rewind" seems even stronger than ever, making the compressed sound of the soloing all that darker. Elsewhere "Crazy with the Zombie Cart" pursues a related feeling, lyrically and musically, towards its somber, gentle guitar conclusion, while "Rolling Blackouts," oddly enough, sounds a bit like a tribute to Placebo (or at least Brian Molko's rapid fire singing/lyrical style) while still being a Strangefire song with the swathes of echo and acid-fried edge. Strangefire can't seem to do a straightforward song as such, to their credit, and if the influence of Bobb Trimble's at once accessible and unsettled arrangements hangs heavy, they do provide their own clear take on the approach, more willing to step away from formal song structures. Meantime, the sheer disorienting quality of many of the performances remains a signature element of the band's work -- the cyclical bass swells and muffled percussion of "Corkscrew Turncoat," the overlapping radio broadcasts and surreal lyric imagery on "Mushroom Skyrise," the preternaturally sweet keyboard melody and shifting vocal volume on "Zero Point Field." Strangefire's continual balance between the willfully obscure and the immediate continues to pay dividends, and quite why they're not more well known among modern psychedelic types remains a mystery.

The newest addition to the world wide web of Strangefire....StrangeWorld.."A place to be Strange"

Ok...here ya go. Since all three of our 1st 3 CDs are out of print..they are now available for DIGITAL DOWNLOAD on our SoundClick store. All you have to do is add money to your buyer account and a download link will be sent. The site is secure, we've used it ourselves and you can use PayPal or CreditCard to add funds. Please help support Strangefire by downloading all 3...Fan the Flames...Zipper Confetti...and Shazbot Munkie...
Also, Strangefire's newest creation, 'Ezion' has been unleashed upon the masses & is now available for the consumption of all. The album is a diverse 17 tracks of the most enigmatic music Strangefire has produced to date. It also includes picture disc & insert of some of Tak's most bizarre strangeart ever. The album is $8(pls. $2 S&H), we are currently accepting Paypal(send to strangefire143@sbcglobal.net)(all you need is a basic paypal account to send money, this way is safer & the acct. is free.) we also accept money orders(write us at email above for address) The songs 'Zero Point Field', 'Rolling Blackouts' & 'Reason Not To Rewind' are currently being featured on our profile to give you a preview of the Strangeness that is Ezion.

Strangefire's newest creation, 'Ezion' has been unleashed upon the masses & is now available for the consumption of all. The album is a diverse 17 tracks of the most enigmatic music Strangefire has produced to date. It also includes picture disc & insert of some of Tak's most bizarre strangeart ever. The album is $8(pls. $2 S&H), we are currently accepting Paypal(send to strangefire143@sbcglobal.net) or money order(write us at email above for address) Go check out our MySpace site as well to hear songs from 'Ezion'. The songs 'Zero Point Field', 'Rolling Blackouts' & 'Reason Not To Rewind' are currently being featured.

After the better part of a year since the release of GUH? Strangefire has been in the shadows crafting bizarre new sounds to unleash upon you all. The new album is titled Ezion and it should be arriving around the end of August. 'Reason Not To Rewind' and 'I'll Tell You What, Martha...' are both featured on the record and are currently available here as well as on MySpace. more details will be released shortly, stay detuned...

Just to let ya'll know, we opened a new page...Friends of Strangefire. We did this for several reasons...one, so we would have a place to showcase some of the earlier works by Mike Ash...two, so we could have another set of stations to showcase our friends work. Make sure you add us as a friend (if we dont hit you up first)...and make sure to stop by and check out the Strangeness over at http://www.soundclick.com/members/default.cfm?member=Mike%20Ash

Nothing to do with our tune hitting #1 on the Rock charts here (although that was nice) but just to let ya'll know Strangefire is being featured on the best podcast on the planet over at CosmicElephant. Our tune Shudders Through the Fog can be heard right now on the WCER Independent Hour! Bounce on over there...you might want to check out the whole site..I do believe they accept submissions and they have a great line up of shows. Heres a direct link http://www.cosmicelephant.org/ Til next time..Stay Strange! Tak!