[atlantaprog] Z-Axis this Thursday!

Hi all,

Just a quick reminder about the Z-Axis/Sundog show THIS THURSDAY, 6/24 at 9-Lives Saloon in Little Five Points. Hope to see you there!
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The Official Bios of both bands:

Z-Axis calls their style of music "post-progressive" rock, and they have been perfecting and refining it since their formation in 1997. Their traditional prog roots have been filtered through contemporary sensibilities, and augmented with influences ranging from world music to electronica to create a sound that pays homage to the original prog spirit, but isn't mired in the past. Founded by synthesist/composer Allen Welty-Green to perform music he had composed for the multi-media performance art piece, "Reality Check", Z-Axis also features Welty-Green's high-school friend Phillip Hart on a wide range of percussion instruments. Bassist/vocalist Jeff Tyson and guitarist/vocalist Mark Baker round out the line-up with their startlingly original approaches to their respective instruments.

Their first CD, "Music from Reality Check" was released in 2000 to uniformly glowing reviews and is still selling briskly. Their long-awaited follow up, "Concatenations", is currently in production, scheduled to be released this July.

http://www.gnosisarts.org/z

Sundog plays what some might call acid acoustic jazz, played by a quintet of extremely accomplished musicians at the veritable apex of their creative arc, striving heroically for a whole new universe of sound, borrowing from a wide array of traditions - rock, jazz, world music, classical, fiddle.

The highly unusual instrumentation - various combinations of violin, cello, guitar, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, tuba, chromatic harmonica, bass, drums, keyboards -makes for a striking palate of sonorities. Sundog eschews electronic gadgets and strives instead for the rich, long-neglected sound possibilities of amplified acoustic instruments - the psychedelic overtones of strings played sul ponticello, breathy expressive horns played close into the mike, mallets on tom toms. The string playing is striking unto itself - Chip Epsten and Robb Chapman, violin and cello, have evolved a whole new grunge approach to strings with rock-style bent notes and distortion effects. The music has enough compositional complexity and harmonic sophistication to hold the interest of the classical aficionado, and plenty of pelvic-thrusting mojo to appeal to the beast within.
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This show is part of the monthly ARIA (Art Rock In Atlanta) series. For more information on ARIA, click here: http://www.gnosisarts.org/aria

Thanks!

AWG

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PPS The solo electronic performance by AWG tentatively set for this Friday has been postponed. More info will be forthcoming!



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