Gull
Nathaniel Rappole’s solo project Gull is best described as a drum; a living, breathing, squawking drum that cries out assorted music of creatures past and delivers it from a single unique perspective; a communal music broadcast of blood and bile left as an offering on the altar of sound.
Gull has been active for more than a decade and has recorded a 7″, 2 EP’s and 2 full length albums and has spent the better part of the past 5 years touring vigorously ~ playing venues, on the streets and in the wilds of North and Central America, Kenya and Europe.
Gull has toured in support of White Rabbits, Tres Mts and RNDM and has shared the bar arena with the likes of Silver Apples, Girl Talk, Deerhoof, Adrian Belew, Panda Bear and Melt Banana…
In 2012 Gull was featured in a movie about music in Mexico called Hecho en Mexico (Netflix), and in 2014 he produced, hosted and performed in a documentary on street/public music and culture in Kenya (Street Muse: Kenya), which premiered at The Fowler Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA on August 21st, 2014.
Gardener
Gardener is the solo electronic project of Richmond, VA-based Dash Lewis. Using a modular synth, effects pedals, and his own voice, Lewis creates glacial slabs of rhythmically complex, trance-inducing psychedelia, weaving looped vocal passages into deeply textural drones. Interested in the organic interplay between electronics and the human voice, Dash works to meld seemingly disparate elements into a single instrument, creating compositions that encourage a state of deep listening.
Visitors
Visitors is collaborative musical hive mind born out of the Broad Street Visitors Center recording studio run by Dan Bailey and Jared Pepper. Dan and Jared began construction on the space back in the Fall of 2014. Two years later, from the guts of an abandoned liquor store, Dan and Jared had built not only a fully functioning studio but a beautiful creative space. Along with the Mammal Gallery, they were part of the first wave of artists to begin the transformation of south Downtown Atlanta. Now they were poised to form a unique musical dialect.
Inviting the best and brightest of the local jazz and experimental music scenes, Visitors was born. Weekly improv sessions would set the groundwork for what would become expansive compositions in the Visitors repertoire. Even though their albums feature dozens of players from the local music community. The performing lineup had been distilled to include the key players in Visitors heightened lexicon. Dan Bailey plays his signature fretless electric bass. Jared Pepper on drums and Kenneth Kenito Murray on percussion make up a formidable rhythm section. Gage Gilmore on keyboards with electronic wizard Jeremi Johnson on synthesizer command the “space station”. While flutist Rasheeda Ali brings a deft melodic tone to the ensemble.
You can expect to hear a lot from Visitors in 2018. They are currently shopping for label support of the studio albums and future touring ventures.
