Charles Atlas is Charles Wyatt and Jared Matt Greenberg.
Other folks that have been known to help us out from time to time: Mike Brown, Mark Dwinell, Craig Escalante, Matt Egan, Hilary Hawke, Sacha Sanchez, John Vecchiarelli, Denise Bon Giovanni, Jon Attwood, Gretta Cohn, Zoe Keating, Erik Kowalski, and Peter Weldon.
Charles Atlas is bicoastal, bipolar, bisexual and bilingual.
Influences
Maira Kalman, Joseph Beuys, Jonathan Safran Foer, Marcel Dzama, Joseph Cornell, Planetariums, Subways, Libraries, Chicks, the 505, Bourbon, Burritos, Friends and Enemies...and YOU!
Charles Atlas is an instrumental duo (often expanding into a trio or quartet) who utilize
effected guitar, piano, synthesizer, melodica, trumpet, drum loops, samples, and other
instrumentation to paint expansive musical pastures on the crowded walls of the urban
centers they and their audiences call home. In this sense Charles Atlas is akin to a large,
green city park, the difference being that whereas the land for, say, Central Park was set
aside long ago, Charles Atlas must forge the aural and (via synaesthesia if not musical
anesthesia) visual space it seeks to fill. The two-dimensional surface upon which CA paints
its murals, the tympanic membrane of the human ear, is in fact quite small; whats more, as a
membrane, it has no depth. Without this third dimension, how can the musician hope to
create full-bodied works? Only when the fourth dimension of time is borrowed does the
picture come into relief; both depth and extension are now possible. Charles Atlas makes
ample use of this dimension, with shuffle-slow pacing and lengthy looped pieces whose
repeating musical phrases establish the gridlines of the new space while intersecting
improvised figures move through it, encounter each other, negotiate, linger, engage,
separate, or expire. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Charles Atlas / Textile Ranch Split CDEP (Static Caravan),
Audraglint Silverware Compilation (exclusive track - Audraglint Records),
Fabricate: Remixes of the Album 'Worsted Weight' (Audraglint Records),
To The Dust: From Man You Came And To Man You Shall Return (Ochre),
The Deadest Bar / Stone(d) in Brackish Pool 12" vinyl (Audraglint Records),
Felt Cover (Static Caravan),
Charles Atlas/Alan Sparhawk split 7" (Star Star Stereo) Out of Print,
Play The Spaces (Star Star Stereo) Out of Print,
Two More Hours (Star Star Stereo). Out of Print
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Nice pic. Keepin it old school. Though in the history of CA that's actually pretty recent. I mean, we're not talkin retarded kids or even Mr. Thompson-era here. More like Baby Dee-era.
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