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  • Genre: Afro-beat / Indie / Reggae

    Location ROCHESTER, Un

    Profile Views: 1014333

    Last Login: 4/11/2012

    Member Since 4/29/2005

    Record Label Controlled Substance Sound Labs

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. .... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ........ .... ............LIVE UP!! Volume II..Free Downloads..........GIANT PANDA GUERILLA DUB SQUAD........LIVEPANDA.com......Beautiful people! Welcome to ..LIVEPANDA.COM.., your home for fresh LIVE PANDA downloads, delivered to you in high grade audio quality for your sonic enjoyment. ..LIVEPANDA.COM.. will be current and consistent in offering new show recordings and rarities to you the listener for free and for purchase. Connect with our mailing list and get the latest free downloads, new videos, and upcoming digital events as we present them to you. INFINITE THANKS and enjoy. IRIE!.... Since the beginning, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad has concentrated on being a favored live experience. Shows are different night by night and contain unique energies reflective of the time, space, place, and community present during the performance. We are excited to bring the LIVE PANDA experience beyond the concert hall and into your homes and domes, wherever you may roam. Shows are hand picked by the band and specially mixed and mastered by Panda engineer and frequency master Joel Scanlon. Enjoy performances featuring special guests and once in a lifetime jams from unexpected places. Hear with your ears the different directions a song can take in a night, from tour to tour, and year to year. Music is its own life form. It changes and morphs by its own accord. The band obeys and submits to this hierarchy in attempts to hone this highly potent energy. The ..LIVEPANDA.COM.. movement attempts to document this journey and crystallize the magic of improvisation that occurs in our music through the harmonization of song forms and live dub.....We live in a special time together. As musical styles merge and recording techniques progress there will always be a unique mystic and power embedded in the energy of the live experience. It is a circular feed between the audiences and artists of blending vibrations and creativity into one communal meditation.......LIVE UP!! Volume II....LIVE UP!! Volume II is Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad's second documentation of the group's sonic journey together through life and musical creation. In 10 unreleased recordings, LIVE UP!! Volume II showcases the quartet's explorations into new territories of sound and style. The recordings featured were compiled from two shows in GPGDS' March/April 2010 tour from the Southeastern USA through the mountains of Colorado. From an opening set for G. Love & Special Sauce in Fayetteville AR to a packed headliner in Fort Collins CO, LIVE UP!! Volume II selections were hand picked by the band and mixed by their engineer Joel Scanlon. The compilation of live recordings seeks to bring the listener into the improvisational atmosphere that GPGDS prefers to dwell in. The ten tracks flow through each other, often disintegrating from the typical song form into dub inspired soundscapes and rhythmic climaxes. The simple song writing of guitarist Dylan Savage and bassist James Searl is complimented by the multi keyboard stylings of Aaron Lipp on Hammond Organ, Clavinet, and Fender Rhodes, as well as the highly original hard driving rhythms of drummer Chris O'Brian. LIVE UP!! Volume II also represents the first release of material that features all four members of GPGDS on vocals. The outcome is electrified American folk music. Joel Scanlon's live engineering is an atypical real time approach of hands on analog dub improvisation, more representative of a jazz musician then a basic sound monkey adjusting levels. Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad is furthering their embrace of group based improvisation through the art of the simple song. Ultra fast at some points and super slow at others, LIVE UP!! Volume II represents a slew of styles honed by GPGDS. LIVE UP!! Volume II marks the opening the floodgates of many live high quality releases from Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad through their new website ..LIVEPANDA.COM... Thank you and enjoy the music.......Limited Edition CD....LIVE UP!! Volume II will have 500 limited edition copies printed, for sale while supplies last. They will be available starting at the hometown Rochester NY concert taking place on Saturday, September 11 at Water Street Music Hall. Each CD will be hand numbered and the first hundred copies will be signed by the band. The unique eco-friendly cardboard packaging will also be put together by the bands hands. Local blood and sweat was used to make every aspect of this tangible item for you to cherish and add to you musical collection. We are very proud to announce that the artwork of LIVE UP!! Volume II will be our first public collaboration with artist and mystical genius of a best friend Alex "Chops" Fals, native of Naples NY. Alex has a unique style of screen printing that GPGDS is obsessed with and we are very excited to embark on several artistic endeavors together. Please enjoy and look for more of his work in the future. We love you. See you at the shows!......www.GIANTPANDADUB.com........"Truly one of the world's finest roots reggae ensembles..."....- ..CBS Radio Street Date........"This is some of the most intense roots reggae we've ever heard..."....- Knoxville's ..Metro Pulse........"...heavy, air-tight dub and roots reggae pressure..."....- ..Washington Post........"...a viable contributor to the modern reggae movement."....- ..Metro Santa Cruz.. ...... .. .... .................... .... .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. ........ .. .. .. .. .. .. ........ .... .. ......
  • Members

    .... .. .. .. .... ..http://www.myspace.com/giantpandadub.. .... .. .... JAMES SEARL: Bass, Vocals .... CHRIS O'BRIAN: Drums, Vocals .... DYLAN SAVAGE: Guitar, Vocals .... AARON LIPP: Hammond B3 Organ, Fender Rhodes, Clavinet, Harmonica, Vocals .... .. .... ..LIVE UP!! Volume II.. (2010)........LIVEPANDA.com.. .... ..LIVE UP!.. (2009)............iTUNES........Slow Down.. (2006)........iTUNES......Get the CD...... .. .... ..........Facebook.com/giantpandadub........ .. .... ............Twitter.com/giantpandadub...... .... .. ......GIANTPANDADUB.com......LIVEPANDA.com...... ..MANAGEMENT..:..Seth Herman..sethlherman [at] gmail.com.... ..PRESS / RADIO..:.. ..Herbivore Publicity.... curtisb [at] giantpandadub.com.. ..Press Photo...... ..BOOKING..:.. ..The Agency Group....valwolfe[at]theagencygroup.com (West coast).. anthonypaolercio[at]theagencygroup.com (East coast)...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... ....................................
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GIANT PANDA GUERILLA DUB SQUAD

For over five years, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad’s live show has defined the band. Touring relentlessly, the Rochester, NY-based group is sustained by its passion to reinterpret, explore, and expand its music night after night in cities throughout the country.

Now, 767 concerts since the 2006 release of their debut album Slow Down, GPGDS is set to release a new album, Country, on January 31, 2012, on the California-based label Controlled Substance Sound Labs. With this release, the quintet has charted new territory and put together a lyrically-driven roots Americana album.

Combining acoustic instrumentation including slide guitar, banjo, harmonica, upright piano, percussion, and bass, the album showcases songs as they were first created: on the road, riding in the van, and jamming backstage. The production of Country taps into that spontaneous rhythm, allowing the music to wash over listeners like a conversation between old friends. James Searl, Dylan Savage, and Dan Keller trade off lead vocal duties, with back up vocals provided by drummer Chris O’Brian, and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Lipp.

Country is an immensely personal album that balances the themes of love separated by distance, while also inspiring reflection on the tumultuous times that we live in. On songs such as “Country” and “Kids In The Square,” James Searl explores elements of the social unrest and Occupy movements that have defined 2011. These emotions are evident when he sings “Time to get living is now / YouTube the moment try to teach us how / Run to the square with the people you know and you gotta get moving cause the movements been slow” (Kids In The Square).

Country was recorded at Scanhope Sound, the Colorado studio owned by the band’s longtime sound engineer Joel Scanlon. Searl says the album was born unexpectedly last summer when “we walked into Joel’s studio and he just pressed record. This is what got laid down. It was unplanned, fun, and real.” The album kept moving forward when Atlanta-based producer Billy Hume (Nas, STS9, Ludacris, Josh Ritter) mixed the tracks shortly after meeting the band at The Festy, near Charlottesville, VA this past October.

Later this spring, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad will release a full electric album, In These Times. The psychedelic roots sound will be more familiar to fans who have gotten to know the band through their concerts and live recordings. Controlled Substance Sound Labs will release Country on January 31, 2012, and In These Times on April 10, 2012.

Press Quotes

“The band’s five masterful musicians weave layers of complex music within a reggae framework and may be one of the most diverse bands in the genre.” – JamBase

“On their newest album Country, Giant Panda unplug the dub machines and pour out their souls on a special collection of songs that reveal the true heart of this band. It is acoustic roots music at its finest, and it amounts to a major statement of purpose from a group who truly embody the spirit of their music.” – CBS Street Date

“Giant Panda sounds more than at home live onstage and the band knows it, filling the live set with musical segues and extended, improvised jams throughout the night. This spontaneous approach to a live performance, along with instrumental excursion, comes as no surprise considering the band has played 500 shows in the past three years alone.” – Reggae Movement

“Honestly, it’s as if GPGDS had always been a country band in the vein of, say, The Flying Burrito Brothers. Though the punch wasn’t quite the same – not better or worse, just different – the intensity and harmonic layering at the show was simply beautiful. This just furthers my prediction that this band is going to be huge.” – Rochester City Newspaper













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Member Since:

April 29, 2005

Members:




http://www.myspace.com/giantpandadub



James Searl: Bass, Vocals
Chris O’Brian: Drums, Vocals
Dylan Savage: Guitar, Vocals
Aaron Lipp: Hammond B3 Organ, Fender Rhodes, Clavinet, Harmonica, Vocals
Dan Keller: Guitar, Vocals
Joel Scanlon: Sound/Dub Engineer




LIVE UP!! Volume II (2010)

LIVEPANDA.com


LIVE UP! (2009)

iTUNES

Slow Down (2006)

iTUNES

Get the CD





Facebook.com/giantpandadub






Twitter.com/giantpandadub





GIANTPANDADUB.com
LIVEPANDA.com

MANAGEMENT:
Seth Herman
seth [at] rootfiremanagement.com

PRESS / RADIO:
Herbivore Publicity
curtis [at] herbivorepr.com

BOOKING:
The Agency Group
valwolfe[at]theagencygroup.com (West coast)
anthonypaolercio[at]theagencygroup.com (East coast)












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