Frank Garvey is a radical all-around musician who dipped his fingertips in painting, sculpting, songwriting, and movie theater. He is most widely known as the originator and director from the OmniCircus in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, the world’s initial robotic movie theater ensemble. Marxist idea, surreal dreamlike imagery, and a …

Barry Despenza co-wrote Tyrone Davis’ number 1 R&B strike, “MAY I Modification My Brain” and its own Best Five R&B/ Best 40 Pop followup, “COULD IT BE Something That YOU HAVE.” Despenza was the Midwest A&R movie director for Los Angeles-based ABC Information during the past due ’60s. The impetus …

French singer/guitarist Dominique Cravic may be the creator and bandleader of Les Primitifs du Futur, a musette revival music group that pulls from a variety of world music designs aswell as jazz, blues, and musette. Located in Paris, Cravic produced his documenting debut in 1983 with Cordes et Lames, a …

This Chicago guitarist is a faithful sidekick compared to that rare breed referred to as jazz accordion players because the years prior to the Second World War, when old-timers remember his music to be something of the balm in troubled times. And in the first years of the brand new …

The careers of Englewood, NJ, natives Homer Dunn, Andy Jones, Ronald Allen, and Charles Make hadn’t reached initial base if they fulfilled manager of an organization called the Avons, who christened them the Four Arts because they popular pop songs. After Warren Lanier rediscovered the quartet, he renamed them the …

Swedish pop trio Nom de Guerre spin power pop and disco right into a heady cocktail of danceable indie rock that brings to mind the heydays of Madness, ELO, and Squeeze. Created in Stockholm round the skills of business lead vocalist/pianist Hector de Guerre, vocalist/bassist Louis de Guerre, and vocalist/drummer …

The Japanese music group Pay Cash to My Pain (commonly abbreviated to PTP) played music that wouldn’t have sounded out of put on Western rock radio, a potent yet commercial cocktail of post-hardcore and nu-metal with anguished, emotional lyrical themes. These were also unusual among Japanese rings in that almost …

The sheer number of bassists named David Phillips represents a predicament that, just like the appearance of 200,000 Zulu warriors coming, requires reinforcements. Laboratory assistant Igor quickly answered the decision for help and suggested an immediate plan of action after overlooking the scant documenting credits for a specific bassist of …