Artist description Ambient Subterranean Power Jazz Industrial Dub Instrumentals! From our labs to your lobes!

Music Style Electonic/Jazz/Post Rock/Dub

Musical Influences 70's Miles/Eno/King Tubby

Similar Artists 70s Miles/King Crimson/King Tubby

Artist History An experimental workshop with rotating members founded by producer/percussionist D. Hitchcock and midi-guitarist Sal Cataldi in their then hometown of Brooklyn, NY in the mid-1990s. Hitchcock & Cataldi partnered with a host of NYC jazz/electronic players in 1997 to produce the critically-acclaimed "Escape Velocity," on Bad Egg Records. The perspective realigning/genre skipping slather of sounds drew superlative "ink" from high and mighty arbiters like THE VILLAGE VOICE and JAZZ TIMES. Following Hitchcock's move back to his native KC and Cataldi's retreat to the blandness of 'burbia, the duo continued exploiting digital technology, Fed Ex and frequent flyer miles to create "Gealago," an even more ambitious, sometimes purposefully lo-fi follow to "Escape Velocity," slated for release in June 2000.

Group Members Core Band...D. Hitchcock - Composer/Percussion/Keyboards - Played drums for Freedy Johnston early in the singer songwriters career and later worked with Bite the Wax Godhead, Medicine Sunday, Frank's Museum (with guitarist Cataldi) and other NYC bands before beginning the dub/percussion experiments that evolved into Hari Karaoke. Now works, resides and teaches in Kansas City... Sal Cataldi - Composer/Guitar Synth & Loops - A conservatory-trained jazzer and pub seasoned slammer, Cataldi has earned critical raves for his work with rock, jazz and experimental acts on the NY scene for the past 15 years. NY PRESS called him "a spiraling soloist," while esteemed ROLLING STONE/EAST COAST ROCKER critic John Swenson may have written it put it best: "He's a hippie guitarist playing to another dimension!" The HK Auxiliary... Percy Jones - Legendary bassist of Brian Eno/Brand X fame... John Hepburn - Fretless bass/Harmonic Strategies... Joe Palermo - Trumpet & Electronics... Kenny Rampton - trumpet of Dizzy Gillespie Big Band fame on the muted Milesean artifact... Dr. Cynthia Harden - piano on "Lotus Zone."

Instruments Percussion/Midi-Guitar & Loops/Fretless Bass/Treated Trumpet

Albums Escape Velocity (1997); Gealago (June 2000)

Press Reviews Escape Velocity (1997)... "An exciting exercise in Miles meets Midi, with lots 'o improvisation. Truly Excellent." THE VILLAGE VOICE ... "Dig This Bone!" THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS... "Part Jazz, part dub, part funk, part industrial, part experimental, part Knitting Factory sounds, these instrumentals are way more exciting than 99% of the music being released these days." FACT SHEET FIVE.. "An all-out trip fest... marvelous head candy... you'll have smoke coming out of your ears, after it melts your central nervous system!" FANTASTIC VOYAGE SYSTEM... "Rather than show how much they deserve a record deal, these guys show how much they deserve to be heard by people with real open ears." AQUARIAN WEEKLY

Location Port Washington, NY - USA

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