TUESDAY APR 30, 2019
Arigato
Chris Brooker, Gage Gilmore, Saira Raza & Scotty Bryan originally assembled to support Damo Suzuki, but when the tour was unfortunately canceled the group was so inspired from their sessions that they wanted to continue as their own entity as Arigato. Honoring Can and Damo's idea of "Instant Compositions", this incredibly talented ensemble produces kraut rock infused psychedelic improvisations.
Chris Brooker, Gage Gilmore, Saira Raza & Scotty Bryan originally assembled to support Damo Suzuki, but when the tour was unfortunately canceled the group was so inspired from their sessions that they wanted to continue as their own entity as Arigato. Honoring Can and Damo's idea of "Instant Compositions", this incredibly talented ensemble produces kraut rock infused psychedelic improvisations.
10th Letter
Monochrome Sweatsuit
I grew up a complete guitar/music geek. Featured in Mike Varney’s Spotlight Column in Guitar Player Magazine (August 2005). Went to Berklee College of Music in 2005 on scholarship, graduating in 2009 with a Bachelors Degree in Professional Music.Played in Boston based rock outfit RIBS from 2009-2012. In 2012 I made my exit from playing rock music into getting weird with my guitar and pedals. Enter Monochome Sweatsuit. In 2013 I won Steve Vai’s Best In Shred guitar contest for Atlanta, opening up for Vai in Chattanooga, TN. Around this time I began doing session work in Atlanta’s hip hop studio scene. Through this period two projects were formed in addition to Monochrome Sweatsuit solo Material. See Crispin Wah, Armadillo.
I grew up a complete guitar/music geek. Featured in Mike Varney’s Spotlight Column in Guitar Player Magazine (August 2005). Went to Berklee College of Music in 2005 on scholarship, graduating in 2009 with a Bachelors Degree in Professional Music.Played in Boston based rock outfit RIBS from 2009-2012. In 2012 I made my exit from playing rock music into getting weird with my guitar and pedals. Enter Monochome Sweatsuit. In 2013 I won Steve Vai’s Best In Shred guitar contest for Atlanta, opening up for Vai in Chattanooga, TN. Around this time I began doing session work in Atlanta’s hip hop studio scene. Through this period two projects were formed in addition to Monochrome Sweatsuit solo Material. See Crispin Wah, Armadillo.
Rare Demo
"If you have yet to feast your imagination on the oddball odyssey that is Gator on Bike on Paper, the debut EP from enigmatic duo L Daddy and Magnus, aka Rare Demo, then it’s time to melt your synapses. Released back in December of 2018, the seven-song effort is a schizo mix of weirdo pop and scattershot electronica and R&B that twists and contorts itself into all manner of fascinating sounds and shapes. It’s a lot to take in, especially on first listen, but the more you allow yourself to absorb the group’s freakish emanations, the more their convoluted logic begins to unravel and make sense.
“Catpiss (The Club)” serves as the EP’s literal centerpiece, and intentional or not, it also serves a worthy bellwether for Rare Demo’s unconventional antics. Spend just a brief minute with the track and you’ll get a heavy taste of everything that makes the pair tick—off-kilter spazz-pop rhythms, frenetic beats, absurdist vocals that swing precariously from stream of consciousness ramblings to honest-to-god hooks. There’s nothing relaxed about what L Daddy and Magnus do, but neither does it feel entirely goofy or haphazard.
Created by Casey Doran, the accompanying video helps conceptualize the anomalous universe Rare Demo operate in. A seemingly omnipresent fixture on the Atlanta DIY scene, Doran’s photography and video work has always carried a surrealist bent while maintaining a raw intimacy with his subjects. “Catpiss” is no different, taking the viewer on a rambling lo-fi trip through drunken house show hijinks, spastic dancing, and wanton keyboard destruction."
-Guillermo Castro, Immersive Atlanta
"If you have yet to feast your imagination on the oddball odyssey that is Gator on Bike on Paper, the debut EP from enigmatic duo L Daddy and Magnus, aka Rare Demo, then it’s time to melt your synapses. Released back in December of 2018, the seven-song effort is a schizo mix of weirdo pop and scattershot electronica and R&B that twists and contorts itself into all manner of fascinating sounds and shapes. It’s a lot to take in, especially on first listen, but the more you allow yourself to absorb the group’s freakish emanations, the more their convoluted logic begins to unravel and make sense.
“Catpiss (The Club)” serves as the EP’s literal centerpiece, and intentional or not, it also serves a worthy bellwether for Rare Demo’s unconventional antics. Spend just a brief minute with the track and you’ll get a heavy taste of everything that makes the pair tick—off-kilter spazz-pop rhythms, frenetic beats, absurdist vocals that swing precariously from stream of consciousness ramblings to honest-to-god hooks. There’s nothing relaxed about what L Daddy and Magnus do, but neither does it feel entirely goofy or haphazard.
Created by Casey Doran, the accompanying video helps conceptualize the anomalous universe Rare Demo operate in. A seemingly omnipresent fixture on the Atlanta DIY scene, Doran’s photography and video work has always carried a surrealist bent while maintaining a raw intimacy with his subjects. “Catpiss” is no different, taking the viewer on a rambling lo-fi trip through drunken house show hijinks, spastic dancing, and wanton keyboard destruction."
-Guillermo Castro, Immersive Atlanta