Saturday, March 13, 2010, Shows start at 8pm

Bio

Monomania (since 2004) is Jeff and Jon and they play: synthesizers, electronic toys, drum machines, radios, computers, percussion, saxophone, flute, guitar, and other plucked stringed instruments.

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The results are mostly from improvisation, with occasionally highly structured/planned input. Monomania has performed in tunnels, in bedrooms, in basements, at local venues, in hallways, in moving vehicles, and in driveways. They hope soon to perform on the water and in outer space.

http://www.myspace.com/monomania

Atlanta-based composer/multi-media artist Allen Welty-Green was raised in Nashville, TN. He has been playing music, both solo and with various progressive and ambient ensembles since the 70's. Disillusionment with the music industry led him to explore the world of avant-garde dance & performance art in the mid 80s. This led to the formation of the Mind's Eye Performance Group with whom he toured extensively across the Eastern USA, performing his ambient synthesizer scores to surreal dance and movement theater pieces performed by Jason Litchford. Some of Mind's Eye's earliest performances were at the Space For Music events organized by Tony Gerber (of Spacecraft), another Nashville resident.

Mind's Eye went on hiatus in the early 90s and Welty-Green relocated to Atlanta. He then formed Gnosis, an artistic cooperative with choreographer L.E. Udaykee. Gnosis has created a touring multi-media production, Reality Check (http://www.mindspring.com/~agmedia/reality.html). In order to perform the multi-layered Reality Check music live, he put together the post-progressive, new edge music ensemble Z-Axis (http://www.mindspring.com/~agmedia/z.html), which has now become a band in it's own right. Their debut CD, "Music From Reality Check" was released last year to uniformly glowing reviews.

In addition to his work with Gnosis and Z-Axis, he has also collaborated extensively with many other dance and theater artists, including Seven Stages, Beacon Dance, Gateway Performance Productions, Cherie Carson, and the Teatr Nowy in Poznan, Poland. Among his musical influences, Welty-Green cites Peter Gabriel (especially his Passion album), Laurie Anderson, King Crimson, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Ozric Tentacles... and such progressive rock stalwarts as (old) Genesis and Yes.

Allen used to write music reviews for Option Magazine before their demise. He also covered the Nashville alternative music scene quite extensively in the early 80's for The Nashville Intelligence Report, Grab!, and Trouser Press.

Those who were there remember it differently, but the basic facts are as follows: Ryan and Mitch had recently been recruited to play with Atlanta songwriter Blair Lott in Austin during SXSW in 2008. Stacey was already in Blair's band, and so the boys eventually found themselves getting acquainted at a bar on 6th Street. At some point, Stacey said something about lap steel and beats, and Ryan said something about making beats (which frequently involved sampling Mitch). There was a lot of other stuff in there, and some drinks and some loud music, and then a long van ride back to Atlanta wherein the concept was fine tuned. Ultraman was invoked, which, when combined with the laptop + lap steel idea, well, you see where this is going.

After a year of tinkering in home studios, recording at the Precinct (home of the Somerset Sound), emailing tracks around, and watching Ultraman episodes, a batch of songs came into focus and a retro-futuristic organic electronic space gospel sound emerged.

Ultralap is:
Stacy Cargal - lap steel, guitar, sitar, voice
Ryan Taylor - laptop, keyboards, bass
Mitchell Sosebee - drum kit, percussion

http://www.somersetsound.com/ultralap

http://www.myspace.com/ultralap

The Subliminator just picked up his fourth consecutive Best Spoken Word award in Creative Loafing's Best of Atlanta 2009.

THE SUBLIMINATOR was found in a state of suspended animation in an abandoned crate by spacerock guitar ace John Pack in 2002. Col. Pack immediately installed him in his band Spaceseed, America's premier spacerock band. The Subliminator toured nationally with Spaceseed in '03 and '04, occasionly opening shows and performing with such luminaries as Nik Turner (Hawkwind), Harvy Bainbridge (Hawkwind) and Cotton Casino (Acid Mothers Temple).

Some say he doesn't exist -- he's a myth -- an urban legend -- an artistic Yeti. But spacerockers and aficionados of the avant-garde nationwide know better. Subliminator sightings and sonic attacks have been reported in Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit and other locales. The epicenter of this activity, however, appears to be in the Southeast in general and in Atlanta in particular. Allegedly the low rumbling of a mysterious black motorcycle has been associated with these sightings and attacks. The National Security Agency has placed the nation on a state of high alert for sonic terrorism ... but it is futile to resist the impending Sublimination invasion!

http://www.myspace.com/thesubliminator

http://thesubliminator.com/