Yawning Man [Palm Desert] / SoftSun [Los Angeles]

Name: Yawning Man [Palm Desert] / SoftSun [Los Angeles]
Start: 2026-06-16T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Oskar-Jäger-Str. 190, Sonic Ballroom, 50825

Schedule

Tue, 16 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Oskar-Jäger-Str. 190, Sonic Ballroom, 50825 | Cologne, NW

https://yawningman.bandcamp.com/music
https://softsun.bandcamp.com/track/sugar-pie
Desert-Rock / Noise / Garage
YAWNING MAN are considered the very founders of the desert rock movement, which was made popular by bands such as Kyuss or Queens of The Stone Age in the early 90s. While their contemporaries gravitated toward the heavy riffs of grunge, and post-punk, YAWNING MAN leaned in another direction with their unique and organic, cinematic compositions and psychedelic improvisations: the perfect soundtrack to encompass the spacious moonscape atmosphere of the well-documented "generator parties" of their area in the late 1980s. It was at these gatherings that they developed this distinctive style and sound by enchanting spectators with their seemingly endless free-form instrumental sessions, which echoed through the beautiful deserts, mesas, and landscapes of the Coachella Valley.

SoftSun was formed in 2023 by guitarist Gary Arce (Yawning Man) and bassist/vocalist Pia Isaksen (PIA ISA). On their second album they are joined by Robert Garson on drums. The band is experimenting with sounds and are difficult to place in a specific genre. They have a style of their own with contrasts of softness and distortion, beauty and noise and emotional peaks and valleys. The music is patient, heavy and dreamy, with haunting vocals and beautiful guitars drenched in distortion and reverb over patient and thought out drums.
The songs are flowing slowly and take inspiration from both the Californian desert landscapes to the Norwegian oceans where the two founding members come from. On this second record SoftSun has developed their sound further and sound both moody, experimental, beautiful, and raw.

Einlass: 20h, Beginn: 21h, Eintritt 16€