Seeking Alpha Falkenstein

Spooky Action at a Distance finds Pattern-Seeking Animals more confident than ever, approaching new soundscapes and topics, combined with the DNA of their previous work for their most memorable and powerful album to date.

Pattern Seeking Animals is the quartet featuring the talents of current and former Spock's Beard members Ted Leonard, Jimmy Keegan & Dave Meros as well as long-time contributing songwriter-producer John Boegehold! The group’s third studio album, Only Passing Through, is the third effort in just 3 years and proves the colossal output these guys have. With this work, Pattern Seeking Animals offer an outstanding and unique prog rock journey with strong and infectious melodies, strong dynamics and impressive song structures.

Alpha Ralpha were a short-lived band with Michel Mareska on electric guitar, Claude Alvarez-Peryre on electric and acoustic guitars, Jean Alain Gardet on keyboards, Charlie Charriras on bass and Emmanuel Lacordaire on percussion. On their only album, four more musicians appeared: Francois Breant on piano and synth, Jean de Anthony and Claude Samard on guitars, and Jean-Jaques Goldman on vocals. Alvarez-Peryre, a co-founder of the group was a member of Malicorne, while Gardet and Goldman were the members of Tai Phong. The band released only one album, the self-titled LP released for Warner in Canada and France in 1977. Their music could be described as a mixture of jazz rock and French symphonic, where guitars are keyboards are carrying the melodies for the most part, with occasional usage of vibraphone and marimba, and vocal harmonies.

2020’s Prehensile Tales is the second studio album from Pattern-Seeking Animals (the quartet featuring the talents of current and former Spock’s Beard members Ted Leonard, Jimmy Keegan and Dave Meros as well as long-time contributing songwriter-producer John Boegehold). Coming out just one year after the much-lauded self-titled PSA debut Prehensile Tales proves to be a an even more adventurous Prog journey with a strong emphasis on infectious melodies and powerful dynamics.

Pattern-Seeking Animals is a quartet featuring Spock's Beard members Ted Leonard, Jimmy Keegan and Dave Meros alongside long-time contributing songwriter-producer John Boegehold. Of the musical direction, Boegehold comments: “Progressive, intricate and melodic, P-S A is a clean slate, so I found myself drawing on a few different musical influences and using some contemporary production ideas and sounds that I probably wouldn’t use with Spock’s Beard for various reasons.”