Artist description The music is diverse and fresh, rocking and atmospheric. Our favorite compliment from a fan at a recent show was, What do you call that kind of music? The idea of Wild Gift is pretty simple. Four friends get together in a room, shut out the rest of the world, put their heads down, and play music that they love. Music that is imprinted on our hearts. WATCH US GROW!

Music Style OURS

Musical Influences Radiohead, Sunny Day Real Estate, Beatles, Pearl Jam, Blue Tip, Grant Lee Buffalo, Fugazi, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Ben Harper, Neil Finn, The Doors, Jeff Buckley, Neil Young, Tool, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Frank Black, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Ice Cube, Outkast, Bob Dylan, Soundgarden, Massive Attack, Wool, Hayden, Girls Against Boys

Similar Artists Radiohead, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sonic Youth

Artist History Guitarist Joel Graves and drummer Bryan Giguere first began playing music together on weekends in their late teens in Fountain Valley, CA. Joel moved to Los Angeles to get away from suburbia, where he became fast friends with Tustin transplant Dominic DiSaia while attending UCLA. Both Graves and DiSaia decided to replace daydreaming in lecture halls with working at record labels and recording studios, just to be around music. Sharing extremely similar musical tastes, it was only a matter of time until DiSaia picked up a bass and stepped in to join Bryan and Joel in weekend meetings to play music. The trio set forth to create instrumental music simply for the sake of making music. As Dominic describes it, We just wanted to make a good foundation really tight, powerful music. Joey Pistoresi grew up in Madera and Santa Cruz in Northern California. After starting on a $24 classical guitar, Joe began on his first electric guitar that came as a gift from his parents for high school graduation. He quickly learned to play the Nirvana song, About a Girl. Shortly thereafter, he started a band with his brother Keith on bass and a friend on drums. Eventually the band unraveled and Joe formed another band, this time with more success. His new combo, Samsara, began to build a good following in the Santa Cruz area. After moving to LA the members of Samsara went there own way. Joey, Joel, and Dominic met for breakfast resulting in Wild Gift crystallizing in September of 2000. The chemistry was there from the very first practice. When Joey, Dominic, Joel, and Bryan get into a room together, something special happens.

Group Members BRYAN GIGUERE-Drums DOMINIC DiSAIA-Bass JOEL GRAVES-Guitar JOEY PISTORESI-Vocals/Guitar

Albums WiLD GiFT has just completed an EP that will be available very soon!

Press Reviews "God damn, these guys rawk!" -Nick Raskulinecz, Producer & Founder of Rock Falcon ______________________________________________________________________ "...no one would ever call this 'product'. it is soul and love and pure passionate intensity from four guys who wouldn't want to be doing anything else. there's not one tiny trace of artifice ANYWHERE...these are the things that will make WiLD GiFT stand out from all the other unmitigated CRAP out there." -Caryn Rose, 5H

Location Los Angeles, CA - USA

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