Sonic Boom is the alias of Pete Kember, known first as the singer/guitarist in the legendary hypno-drone unit Spacemen 3, then as the leader of Spectrum and Experimental Audio Research in the '90s, and as a producer (MGMT, Panda Bear) and collaborator (No Joy, Dean & Britta) since then.; Sonic Boom is the alias of Pete Kember, known first as the singer/guitarist in the legendary hypno-drone unit Spacemen 3, then as the leader of Spectrum and Experimental Audio Research in the '90s, and as a producer (MGMT, Panda Bear) and collaborator (No Joy, Dean & Britta) since then.
Performed not quite in chronological order, the concert begins with the gentle album opener Just Imagine, a song whose genesis came from Kember reading an interview with a young cancer patient who expressed naively belligerent optimism in the face of his approaching fatality.
