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NEW! The long-awaited extended version of BNW is has arrived! After the odd opening
sample, a deceptively quiet bass
pulse behind Gregor's vocal on the intro gives way to a mind-expanding wash of synth
textures to a beat. The 2002 remix adds
almost 4 minutes of full frontal psychedelicious electronica to the instrumental section of
the song.
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It's not that Tom Gregor was an angry child ... he was simply prone to striking objects at random to hear the sounds they'd make. Such were the early signs of raw, unfettered musical hyperactivity.
He would have been a violinist, given his choice, but the lack of available instruments dictated fate. Instead, he became a guerrilla drummer, a twelve-year-old percussion vigilante, pounding away at instruments of his own creation, assembled from whatever he could find.*
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His present-day 24-track digital studio is strewn with Bic lighters and coffee cans, metal boxes and rubber bands, the sounds of which now punctuate the soundscapes that emanate in oceanic waves from the speakers. The raw creative impulse remains, but has transformed into a focused, technology-fueled passion for aural gratification.
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Tom Gregor has become a gifted multi-instrumentalist. His compositions are sometimes sparse and minimal, with sounds that are warm and in your face like a steaming sauna towel on a cold day. At other times, the scope is grand. Luscious layered textures shimmer with depth and dimensionality. Slip into another world ...
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Sometimes there are words. When Tom Gregor writes a lyric, it's unusual, universal, and uplifting; personal, poetic and painful; insightful, impulsive and imaginative. Grab a seat on the roller coaster of his life, ride along in a lyric so descriptive that you can feel the whiplash as your brain bangs against your skull on the sharp turns.
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Find yourself on a journey to somewhere it never occurred to you to want to go ... but why didn't it? Go deep into southern Mexico to seek out the local shaman down in the Yucutan; stand on the fiery volcanic surface of Jupiter's moon Io. In the realms of inner or outer space, no subject is too intimate, or too ecstatic.
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*no animals were harmed
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As a songwriter, composer and producer, Tom Gregor has worked on many albums for a variety of artists. Here are a few highlights:
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Released two albums, Io and Continua, under the name Ian TC. These are instrumental albums in the symphonic electronica genre.
"A beautifully recorded and packaged debut." --Electronic Musician "An accomplished piece of work...Excellently recorded..."
-- Option.
"Continua, the follow-up to his smashing debut album Io is, if anything, even more smashing. Extends Io's mix of gently atmospheric clouds of sound melding into driving rock tunes, showing a natural mastery of both."
-- Electronic Musician.
A new album is due for release in spring, 2002.
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Co-Produced, Engineered and Played on albums by the Auto No -- "Best Rock Recording 1991" by WestWord, Denver's premiere arts and entertainment magazine. Album Network's Best Unsigned Bands CD Compilation.
A Way From Here was added to over 120 alternative/college radio stations nationwide. Many stations placed the CD into heavy rotation and three stations charted it at #1.
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Worked with Phil Keaggy, engineering, mastering and digitally editing on two albums. Acoustic Sketches is a collection of snippets casually recorded by Phil, that was edited into an album that won a Dove Award for Best Instrumental Album of 1999.
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Produced and Engineered Heavy-Rock albums by Jag Panzer and Psyco Drama, including Jag Panzer's underground classic, Ample Destruction.
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Played and engineered on the song "When The River Rises", on Firefall's 1998 release entitled Messenger.
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Engineered the Mountain Car CD by popular MP3 artist Kim Swift.
Worked with dozens of other artists and albums: Jana Stanfield, Jock Bartley, Mountain Flyer, Zen Radio, Fun At The Zoo, Pope On A Stick, Randy Zombola, Loco Pony, Radford and Lewis,
Cindy Greene, John Bayley...
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| A haunting surreal lament, featuring Gregor's vocal cascading over clouds of synthesizer punctuated by piano. A pulsing african rhythm drives the piece. | MP3.com CD: Zentasy EP -  buy it!
CD: Zentasy EP
Label: S.Monkey
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| A quirky dialog between two participants in a dysfunctional and volatile relationship, played out against a backdrop of distorted synth bass and electric guitars. | MP3.com CD: Zentasy EP - buy it!
CD: Zentasy EP
Label: S.Monkey
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| The long-awaited extended version of BNW is has arrived! After the odd opening sample, a deceptively quiet bass pulse behind Gregor's vocal on the intro gives way to a mind-expanding wash of synth textures to a beat. The 2002 remix adds almost 4 minutes of full frontal psychedelicious electronica to the instumental section of the song. |
Label: S.Monkey
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