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                "Dark Inside the Sun is a project of Steve Gigante’s. Steve is also a member of 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, and has performed in Brother JT and Old Time Relijun.   * "His performance goes to the extremes between 'INTENSE AS FUCK' and 'SO HEARTFELT YOU WILL CRY'. His lyrics are better than Bob Dylan, and he is a mean motherfucker on guitar and drums, which he sometimes plays at one and the same time... you really owe it to yourself to get to know this man and his music." - Arrington DeDionyso of Old Time Relijun 
                * "You sincerely owe it to yourself to see this tour. You are missing something if you do not see it. What you are missing is that part of yourself that has most likely become lost. Steve will free that part of you, for the better of course. Steve Gigante lives the travelling American bard life you always wanted to but never did due to its great level of difficulty, hardship, and danger. He has the gift of creating beauty. Truly a hero for our modern times, this DARK INSIDE THE SUN." - Rives (formerly) of Old Time Relijun 
                * "A great, itinerant performance artist." - Brother JT 
                * "Dark Inside the Sun encompasses delicate, harsh atonal folk blues at hushed whispers to frenzied rants. It's the sound of bones being broken and the marrow leaking out everywhere. The songs are inspired from the split arteries that criss cross America's shadow. Dark Inside the Sun balances the scratched folk side with deconstructed guitar and drum violence overlaid by chants that is extremely brutal. Amazing one person experience of purity and honesty. It's Charley Patton if he was in the Swans. America rolls around in its own juices. Broken down cars and wicker couches on front porches. Stranded in Kansas. Stranded in KANSAS!! The best part is when you get to lick the spoon!" - EYEDRUM, Atlanta 
                * "EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN meets Hasil Adkins." - some paper in Louisville, KY 
                * "Somewhere between front-porch folk and avant-garde improvisation." - some paper in Nashville, TN 
                * "Possibly one of the strangest musical experiences you will experience, depending on how many da da-ist, one-man-bands you've seen." - some online blurb 
                * "One man/cyclone from Knoxville, TN - watch out for flying drumsticks!" - flyer fron Louisville, KY  
                * "A man, his electric guitar, his acoustic guitar, an almost-drumset, a casio, and fifty drumsticks! Describing Dark inside the Sun has proven impossible. You just have to hear it. If only all poetry was like this..." - Alamagator on "A Little Nervous" 
                * BLASTITUDE REVIEW * Dark Inside the Sun: So That I May Not Die, While I Am Still Alive (Yeay! Cassettes) "Heads up for this release, which kind of blew my mind. Dark Inside the Sun is the solo performance project of a Knoxville, Tennessee resident named Steve Gigante who has an interesting pedigree, having played with Brother JT, Deerhoof, and 7 Year Rabbit Cycle. And, when he plays solo under the name Dark Inside the Sun, he does this one-man tribal freak-punk explosion, playing drums and guitar at the same time like he's trying to singlehandedly recreate the Cromagnon album. Kind of inexplicable and invigorating. And there's another side to his coin - some songs 'recorded in his van', a fragile and haunting 'folk song' side, which sounds like one of the few legitimate heirs to the Jandek throne. Dig it!" 
                * "Dark Inside the Sun brings a raw transcendent honesty to all extremes of the music spectrum. Consisting of one old soul that sears the air with unfettered visions of suicide biographies, burning wicker chairs, coughing swamps and the ghosts of candles. This is the true sound of desolation and anger brought from the depths of the holes in the air through deconstructing violent drum rituals littered with shaky melodic moaning guitars or by gracefully intoning snapping pain willow lonesome poetics over strummed junk acoustic guitars. Very tense and beautiful at the same time and carries all human experience from the city to the country. Evokes the spirit of Charley Patton thrashing in the swollen Mississippi River where no memories are forgotten... only dealt with. Maybe someday the levy will break again. Moon bone carving music." - Matthew Proctor of Pony Bones and Hubcap City (from Belgium)

Projexorcism



16mm banditos with virtual surreality audio manglings combining to twist your mind into balloon animals

Spawned in 1999, Projexorcism was begun when Ed Cooper acquired two Bell & Howell
2592 auto-shred projectors and 200 educational films. By 2003 Projexorcism had
defined a unique flavor of experimental hyperactive expanded cinema & has since been
pushing the boundaries of weirdness. Currently Projexorcism is using a quad 16mm
projector array suspended from a lighting pole - the projectors are synchronized with a 4-
channel sound-actuated variable speed lighting controller. The projected images are split,
inverted and bent using silver reflective CD-R's and Fresnel lenses. In May 2005 The
Catawba Council for the Arts awarded Projexorcism an Innovative Project Grant to add a
Film-to-Video Regurgitation Array to their quad 16mm setup. Unbound from the
linearity of film, the 16mm setup is now augmented with real-time video capture,
manipulation & projection devices.

The film is manipulated using various techniques to create new contradictory action
sequences and dialogue. Films are chosen to reflect relevant, irreverent or nonsensical
themes – black history, presidents, Gila monsters. Film often breaks or passes through
the projection gate in a manner inconsistent with film preservation, much to the dismay
of Jedi film preservationists. The kinetic swinging and shaking of the film tree will warp
reels and melt film - CDs fall to the ground - the shriek of optical sound feedback as dust
clogs the sound bulb - the randomly choreographed accidents of brilliance & stupidity – a
space armada of keyboards scoring a photonic overture.



T-ak

Music junkie discovers love and vibrations beyond handouts from local record outlets. Embarks on new musical discovery and finds new direction making records in basement as part of Noise Bros. Later to move to Knoxville, TN and explore solo efforts. Currently slumming as resident genius with "Lee Ranaldo Has Silver Wings".

Electric Junkyard Gamelan

 

    Electric Junkyard Gamelan is the brainchild of bandleader and composer Terry Dame. Born out of desire to create an original sound Dame fused her two passions, making music and inventing and building things to form this totally unique group. Originally inspired by traditional Gamelan music from Bali, the group's music is influenced today by a diverse range of sounds from Indian classical to funk, klezmer to rock and is shaped by the unique and humor laced voice of composer Terry Dame. They perform on Dame--s innovative instruments such as the Rubarp and Big Barp (electric rubber band harps), the Sitello (an electric cello/sitar combo), the Terraphone (copper pipe horn), the Clayrimba (a three octave tuned clay pot "marimba") and an arsenal of percussion instruments fashioned from old farm equipment, turntable platters, saw blades, and truck springs. The result is a super original sound with haunting melodies, funky bass lines and layers of dance-able interlocking rhythms that ride over clashes of metal on metal and colorful harmonic washes. Audiences are transfixed by the beauty and strangeness of the unusual collection of instruments on stage and the amazing array of carefully placed sounds they produce.

The five musicians in EJYG hail from diverse musical backgrounds. Leader Terry Dame, a saxophonist and composer by training has studied music from around the world including Indonesia, the Middle East, the Balkans and India. She has been living and working in New York City since 1985, composing and performing for film, video, theater, dance, and concerts.




 "Electric Junkyard Gamelan makes music so original they had to invent their own instruments to play it. It's wild enough to please fans...regardless of genre." --Global Rhythms Magazine

"transporting...beautiful and inspired sounds" - --Village Voice

"...rhythmic, near-hypnotic music." --HX Magazine

" a scattered mix of foreign music that mixes jangling and banging with worldly sounds. The EJG definitely knows what it--s playing. It never feels disjointed or awkward, but always feels out of this world; at times natural, earthy..." --Michael Levy, New Haven

The Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woc14jfR-Hg


The Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble was formed in 1997 by its director, multi-instrumentalist and composer Aaron Bachelder, from interested students at the Enrichment Center in Winston-Salem, NC, an arts-based day program for adults with disabilities. In doing so, he established something that had never been before- a professional performing group whose members have developmental disabilities. In spite of their lack of prior musical experience, the group began performing within months of its inception, and had soon performed for thousands of people in and around Winston-Salem. Among their early notable performances was one at the opening of memorialist and architect Maya Lin's first sculpture exhibit (at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, where they went on to perform dozens of times), and frequent performances representing both The Arts Council and The United Way of Forsyth County. The group quickly began attracting the attention of other artists, and a number of collaborations followed, including multiple performances with dance/theater groups Chimaera Physical Theater, the African- American Dance Ensemble, and the Open Dream Ensemble of the North Carolina School of the Arts. In 2000, Bachelder was asked to compose a new work for violinist and NC School of the Arts professor Sarah Johnson, accompanied by the ECPE, for her new CD entitled "Fiddler's Galaxy" (Albany Records, 2000). The resultant work, "Nomos", was described by the online journal New Music Box as being among works that "might as well be for electronics, the use of the instruments is so sonically interesting" (along with John Cage and Roger Reynolds). American Record Guide described it as "delicate" and "unfailingly attractive". Dr. Eugene Chadbourne, writing in Allmusic.com, called it "what makes this CD really special" and "inspired" (3 stars). Later, group member Marcie Haley began to gravitate more and more toward the drumset and away from other percussion instruments (Aaron subsequently put away his mallets in favor of a guitar) -this shift, among other factors, pushed the group in a direction toward rock and away from its contemporary classical roots. Their next recording, "Three Pieces" (Microearth Records, 2005, with guests Morgan Kraft, Erich Hubner, and Joel Lambdin), presented this new conception of the group's sound: pop structures, textured with techniques and colors of classical minimalism as well as borrowings from various eastern musics. This recording, too, has been well received critically: Dr. Chadbourne, again in Allmusic.com, says, "the project is noble, virtuous, and capable of inflicting great genius on tobacco country... the opening 'Parallax' marks promising artistic heights" (3 1/2 stars). GoTriad called it "mesmerizing" and "hypnotically lush music" and stated that "the band layers soundscape upon soundscape, leaving me sifting through each listen, finding new and gorgeous elements to discover". In 2006, the track "Parallax" was used in a commercial for the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, and the ECPE contributed a new piece, "Wintersong" to the WUAG (U of NC at Greensboro) live compilation, "18 Watts is Better Than None". Since the recording of "Three Pieces", the group has gained two keyboardists, and two percussionists have left. The new lineup began work on a new record in October 2006, with engineers Morgan Kraft and Erich Hubner, produced by Aaron Bachelder and Erich Hubner, mixed in March 2007 with Mitch Easter at the Fidelitorium, and mastered by Brent Lambert at Kitchen Mastering. Guest musicians include Hubner, Kraft, Winston-Salem's own Jeffrey Dean Foster, and Vickie Burick of the Asheville- based band Nevada. This new album, "Ten Songs" will be available Spring 2008.