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Trance Lucid was formed in 1993. The focus was jazz-inflected instrumental music incorporating rock elements and a range of tonal colors.
The first Trance Lucid album, Arise, was released in January 1996. In late 1997, the band relocated to Oakland, CA. The band began performing regularly around the Bay Area and working on a second album, Vigil, released in August 2000.
After several years of performing and then a break, the band refocused its energies on a new recording, released in March 2005. The Colours of Darkness is a harder-edged collection of songs, representing the darker music in the band's catalog.
A live album, Unrevisited Live, was released in December 2007 and contains eleven previously unreleased songs recorded at four shows.
The band eventually orbited again to release a new studio recording in June 2013, Palace of Ether, after two years of recording. Fifteen tracks in total, the centerpiece of the album is the 32-minute title track, the origins of which can be traced back several decades.
There are plans for a new studio album, currently on hold. A remastered version of Unrevisited Live will be released in April 2025. A new live album of unreleased recordings is currently in production.
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