Music:
Scott Helland is a musician/artist from New York whose been writing, recording and performing music since the ..80's. He has over 25 recordings out including 7 solo CDs and 3 CDs with his duo The Gypsy Nomads. He has pen and ink art prints in stores across the US and his originals are collected around the world.
The Gypsy Nomads features French-born British artist/dancer Samantha Stephenson on vocals, percussion and drums and Helland on guitar, drums, and live guitar loops. Touring extensively year round they perform at festivals, theatres, conventions, clubs and cafes and can be heard on independent radio in the US and Europe.
In the eighties and nineties, Helland played bass guitar with the bombastic Western MA hardcore punk bands Deep Wound, (which included Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis and Lou Barlow,) and Outpatients (with his brother Vis Helland). Both bands released critically acclaimed underground recordings that still sell today to punk record collectors and aficionados of the hardcore music scene here in the U.S, Asia and Europe. Both bands have also been chronicled in the recent books American Hardcore; A Tribal History, Choosing Death; The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grind Core and F***ed Up and Photocopied; Art of the Punk Movement. Deep Wound is also listed in the Encyclopedia of Punk.
Artwork:
The punk flyer collages Scott put together in the eighties and nineties have evolved into intricate pen and ink drawings that blanket the covers of his CDs and merch. His work has been shown at galleries, and his prints are carried by metaphysical shops nationwide and can be ordered through The Gypsy Nomads website. Scott's work is also available at his concerts, and can be seen on stage in the form of giant hand drawn backdrops.
Visit Scott Helland, Samantha Stephenson and The Gypsy Nomads at www.thegypsynomads.com
Scott Helland solo songs on this page:
1. "Fire, Bow and Brimstone(remix)" From the Brocade CD released in 2004
2. "Shinning Knights in Dented Armor" From the Catapult CD released in 2006
3. "Blackberry Forest" From the Earthbound CD released in 2002
4. "Gazing at the stars from the floating Sea" From Space Age Tranceology 2000
5. "Reminisce" From the Motion Sickness CD 1999
6. "Ripples" From the Hellbox/Mood Rings CD 1996
All are available from www.thegyspynomads.com or email scott@thegyspynomads.com
12/05/2009 03:00 PM - ABC NO RIO - 156 RIVINGTON STREET - L.E.S., New York - $7 – Iconicide, Blowback, Bunnyrat and Public Disturbance
12/12/2009 08:00 PM - ICONICIDE’S 21st Anniversary-Part 1-Rock Star Bar - 351 Kent Avenue -Wormsburg (Brooklyn), New York - $7 NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, TRUTH IN NEEDLES, CHESTY MALONE & THE SLICE ’EM UPS, CAUGHT IN A TRAP, REASON TO FIGHT, ICONICIDE
Hi Scott Thanks for your kind comments and I enjoyed the Celtic guitar melodies of 'Blackberry Forest' - so evocative of the Irish countryside. Hope you have a creative weekend :)
omg i love you guys so much i actually have an autographed cd of yours its the earth bound cd love it i even have pics taken with you at pagan pride day in dover delaware. hope you guys come back and see us again
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