Artist description the soundtrack to life on a different planet during the twilight hours. ambient, somber, psychedelic and sexy.

Music Style NEON GLOOM. Esoteric/Electronic. Sci-Fi Opera. Muzik For Furniture. New Wave Space Rock.Galactic Fusion.

Musical Influences Interpol,Radiohead (2000-2001),Pink Floyd, Mick Karn, Kreidler, Laika, Grassy Knoll, Critters Buggin, Jan Boerman, Robert Ashley, Morton Subotnick, lots of mid-eastern music.

Similar Artists Chrome, Legendary Pink Dots, Peter Murphy, Ozric Tentacles, David Bowie, Brian Eno.

Artist History Always being influenced by science fiction, space, spirituality and androgyny, Tory was known in 1980-1984 as a flamboyant guest musician with artsy punk/new wave St.Louis bands. From 1984-1998 Tory helped form, compose muzik and perform in Vinyl Emissary, Saturnalia Glossalalia, Futurist Manifesto, Ultraviolet Renaissance and neXt rAdio. After neXt rAdio disbanded in 1998 (starting in 1990) Tory and his girlfriend Venus decided to form Kinetic Telepathy, a multi-media arts company that would include Tory's solo project as well as paintings, photography, spoken word recordings, dance, etc. that Venus created. Tory had been recording solo projects since 1996 and was playing them on his radio show in St. Louis. A new band was formed and recorded a soundtrack for a theatre performance. Next came live shows of new muzik combined with performance art created by Venus and Tory. And now, here are some recordings at your disposal...take them into space and enjoy.

Group Members Tory Z Starbuck, Venus Slick, Aaron Evans, Chuck Nowakowski. Guest Musicians: Jun Sugitani, Henry Claude, Rob Silverman, Erin Neill, T.David Norton, Tom Sutter, Dr. Mabuse, Bill Hanson, Cedric Hendrix, Eric Boschert.

Instruments TORY - vocals, guitars, e-bow, bass, keyboards, synthesizers, electronic/acoustic percussion, viola/violin, alto saxophone, alto/tenor bamboo saxophones, suona, bamboo flutes, snake charmer pipe, sipsi, mijwiz, ney, zurna, saz, sitar, chin, rababa, objects, treatments. VENUS - synthesizers, sequencers, samples/tapes, electronic percussion, voices, objects, treatments. CHUCK- bass, treatments. AARON- acoustic/electronic drums and percussion.

Albums 1.Masque On Mask (1996) 2. Subdata (1996) 3. The Vinyl Emissary (1997) 4. Surreal Estate Agent (1997) 5. Avant Guardian Angel (1997) 6. Creatures Take Him (1998) 7. Scoping Futures (1998) 8. Long Live The Jet Age (1999) 9. Airzoan (1999) 10. Tory Z Starbuck Prezents The Dreaming Insect Soundtrack (1999) 11. Tory Z Starbuck Prezents GLOW: The Muzikal (2000) 12. Tory Z Starbuck Prezents The Chair Exhibit (2000) 13. Tory Z Starbuck Prezents Muzik For Airplane Disasters (2000) 14. Tory Z Starbuck Prezents The Russian Submarine Mystery (2000) 15. A Sliver Ov Christ (2000) 16. Twilight On Leupp (2001) 17. Attache (2001) 18. Pictures At An Expedition (2002) 19. Violet Lizards (2002) 20. Androidal Tissue (2002) 21. The Last Ten Years Of My Head (2002{compilation}) 22. Stolen (2003{free cover cd})

Press Reviews "an avalanche of synthesizers, a dabbling in guitars and beats, an identifiably progressive-as in "prog-rock"-approach to music creation, a vocal moan that runs from gruelingly deep to gratingly steep tones, and the thematic base of his entire output: science fiction and the future." Riverfront Times (Aug. 25, 1999). "With Bowie-esque vocalisation draped (and reverberated) over droning, blippy electronics, and Starbuck's effected violin on Scoping Futures, fans of space rock and other futurist musics will have a new hero." Interface(July/Aug 1999). "Imagine, at times, a Rozz Williams, Bowie-inspired atmosphere run through a Mystery Science 3000 filter and you'll start grasping the Starbuck mythos." Interface(Sept/Oct 1999). " Airzoan is the latest futuristic offering by Tory Z Starbuck: this one's an opera about Arizona circa 2017, inspired by the architectural work of Antoine Predock"..."which is about Agent SLV, the "Prophet Predock," a future war and cloning. He mixes this storyline with his standard instrumentation and accent, which recalls '70s-era Eno, Bowie, King Crimson and Ultravox. Starbuck calls this one of his "favourite (and potentially most pretentious) albums." He's on the mark on both accounts"...Riverfront Times (Feb 2 2000).

Additional Info OTHER ARTISTS WE LIKE: King Crimson, P.I.L., Toyah, L. Shankar, To Rococo Rot, Throbbing Gristle, (early)Cabaret Voltaire, Pulp, Suede, Vertu, The Cars, Chrome, (Brian Eno produced)Talking Heads, Roxy Music, Kraftwerk, Happy Rhodes, The East-West Ensemble, Shakti. Influenced by; God, life, science fiction, imaginative non-conformist music of multi-genres (usually called pretentious), post-modern furniture/architecture design, cats, insects, reptiles, capybaras, the desert-spirits of Arizona and New Mexico, Antoine Predock, inner AND outer space, Liquid Sky, Chronopolis, Flaming Ears, the ancient future and the future past.

Location Clayton, MO - USA

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