FrenzyOrganic
Nassau County, Long Island, 1988–1989. A live three-piece that set the template for Ajna Chakra. The record exists — on tape, on paper, in the vault — and the vault is being opened.
The Record
Frenzy is the second link in the lineage: Nassau County, Long Island, 1988 — a power trio built for the stage, formed out of the ashes of Syrinx in the same suburban rooms right outside the city. Where Syrinx was five friends and a vinyl pressing, Frenzy was leaner and louder: primarily a live three-piece, and in that stripped-down format it set the exact template that Ajna Chakra would carry to Boston in 1990. Frenzy ran hot and brief — 1988 to 1989 — years before the web existed to notice. No search engine will find this band, and that is precisely the point: the photos, flyers, and personnel records are physical objects in the estate vault, made in an era when a band's entire archive fit in a milk crate and had to. The label treats that crate as active catalog, not memorabilia. The digitization program that is staging Ajna Chakra's 7-inches and Great Day For Up's master WAVs for the PENNY vault reaches back to Frenzy too: tape transfers, print scans, personnel credits reconstructed from the paper record. Every band on this roster descends from rooms like the ones Frenzy played, and the network the label is building now — streaming, storefront, intake — is how a 1988 Long Island trio ends up permanently audible. The vault opens on a schedule, not a maybe.
The Chronicle
The history and the records, pressed into one column — read it, hear it, own it, in the order it happened.
The trio forms
Nassau County, NY, 1988 — out of Syrinx comes Frenzy, a live-first power trio playing Long Island rooms right outside the city.
The template
In its stripped three-piece format, Frenzy sets the structural template for Ajna Chakra — the configuration Vitali carries to Berklee and Boston in 1990.
The vault program
Frenzy enters the label's digitization pipeline: tape transfer, print scanning, and credit reconstruction, staged for archival release through the PENNY network.
The recorded output lives in the analog estate vault. Digitization pending.
Personnel
- Michael VitaliMember · additional historical members to be credited from the physical archive
Play the Record
The catalog streams right here — one stream, one penny, straight to the artist vault.
Pressed & Shipped by the House
Vinyl and merch, sold direct — no middlemen between the record and your hands.