Artist profile: Tiny Orchestral Moments

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Tiny Orchestral Moments promotional photo

Tiny Orchestral Moments is an international troupe of connected musicians who meet periodically to perform and record. A core of experienced musicians invites others to participate, including many from the world’s Guitar Circle community. The aim: share structured improvisation that sounds composed, and composed collaboration that sounds improvised.

Join us to see what happens when this amazing group of musicians gets together.

Personnel:

  • Beth Fleenor — Clarinet, voice
  • Nora Germain — Violin
  • Rachael Beaver — Cello
  • Kathy Moore — Guitar
  • Jaxie Binder — Guitar, voice
  • Alex Anthony Faide — Guitar
  • Igor Abuladze — Bass
  • Fernando Kabusacki — Guitar
  • Fernando Samalea — Drums, percussion
  • Carl Germain — Guitar
  • Lucius Gregory Meredith — Kelstone
  • Nathan Grigg — Keyboards
  • Paul O’Rear — Guitar
  • Steve Ball — Guitar, voice

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Artist profile: Star Cradle

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Star Cradle promotional photo

Star Cradle is a Seattle space rock band founded in 2014. They are prone to epic improvisational grooves situated somewhere between solid ground and the farthest reaches of the galaxy.

Personnel:

  • Keith David Stewart — Guitar
  • Christopher Gaffney — Bass
  • Tom Prather — Keyboards
  • Gaël Eichler — Drums

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Artist profile: Ocelot Omelet

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Ocelot Omelet promotional photo

Not for the faint of heart, Seattle’s Ocelot Omelet ventures into the depths of rock music where psychedelic echoes meet subterranean deities in dark rituals involving sound, vision, and emotion. The phrase “pseudo-retro tele-gothic psycho-hippie filth-punk” has been used, and it is as accurate as it is confusing. Moments of torrential pummeling are balanced by periods of calm serenity.

Personnel:

  • Os Calaveras — Ventures, cutbacks
  • Whiz — Ocelot beak torture

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Artist profile: Inner Ear Brigade

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Inner Ear Brigade promotional photo

Inner Ear Brigade (IEB) is an ensemble of musicians based in the San Francisco Bay Area who play a unique mix of progressive rock, jazz, and experimental pop, all delivered through their originally detailed compositions and arrangements. They recently released their 2nd full length album Dromology. The music is “fun, happy, accessible, and proggy.” Steeped with a vintage analog sensibility, effects processing, and synthesizers, IEB crafts their sounds from “RIO elements (Rock In Opposition), Canterbury (Sound), and Zappa.”

Personnel:

  • Bill Wolter — Guitar, bandleader
  • Chris Lauf — Drums
  • Steven Wright — Bass
  • Andrew Jameson — Keyboards
  • Ivor Holloway — Tenor saxophone
  • Alison Niedbalski — Vocals, keyboards

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Artist profile: Himiko Cloud

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Himiko Cloud promotional photo

Himiko Cloud was formed in a small town in Central Washington called Cashmere. They use loops, polyrhythms, heavy effects, and time signature changes to create a lush form of instrumental progressive music. Originally a duo, Kyle Folden (guitar) and Jake Henson (drums) have played shows around the Northwest together under this name for three years. With the addition of bassist Connor McKay in the fall of 2017, they are ready to take on the world.

Personnel:

  • Kyle Folden — Guitar
  • Jake Henson — Drums
  • Connor McKay — Bass

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