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Artist profile: Omni

Omni promotional photo
Omni promotional photo

After many permutations of the lineup over the years, OMNI has recently reconvened in its most focused and modern interpretation of the band: a trio. With wide ranging instrumentation that includes Warr guitar, percussion, and analog synths as well as the standard guitar, bass, and drums, the band creates a lot of sound with just three humans. A love of music from influences such as King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, and Brian Eno all the way to Boards of Canada, Killing Joke, Faith No More, and Death Grips/Hella inform the sound. The goal has always been to bring in visceral emotion in balance with competence of musicianship.

Personnel:

  • Chris Cullman — Bass
  • Will Andrews — Drums
  • Patrick Allen — Guitar

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Artist profile: Moon Letters

Moon Letters promotional photo
Moon Letters promotional photo

Moon Letters is a Seattle-based band with a lineup featuring members of Autumn Electric, Wah Wah Exit Wound, Panther Attack!, Bone Cave Ballet, Cumberland Big Band, Bill Green Quartet, Cantrip, Chaos and the Cosmos, Spacebag, and probably a few more that we missed. Suffice it to say these guys know what they’re doing, and they’ve come up with a style that hearkens back to the classic days of progressive rock without merely copying the sounds. Their music is a test case in how to write songs about knights and mythical creatures without sounding twee and foolish. They proved to be a big hit at Seaprog 2017, and they’ve got a lot of new material to share for a return engagement.

Personnel:

  • Michael Trew — Vocals, guitar, flute
  • Dave Webb — Guitar
  • Mike Murphy — Bass
  • John Smith — Keyboards
  • Kelly Mynes — Drums
  • Catey Mayhew — Backing vocals

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Artist profile: Lupertazzi

Greg Sinibaldi promotional photo
Greg Sinibaldi promotional photo

Saxophonist and composer Greg Sinibaldi has established himself as one of the Northwest’s most inventive musicians, embracing a diverse musical world. Whether he’s performing with his own groups, playing in metal bands, or performing on the EWI, he brings forth a characteristic and unique voice each time he performs. Inspired by a wide range of music and art, Greg has developed a unique improvisational language, creating a virtuosic and rich sonic palette.

Lupertazzi is the electronics project of Greg Sinibaldi utilizing the EWI (electronic wind instrument). The EWI, basically a breath-driven synthesizer, is programmed via custom built software, live sound processing, algorithmic composition, and patch based field recordings. This creates a unique sonic palette. At times ambient, experimental (experiential?) or sublime, Lupertazzi creates electronic fire, immediately engaging.

Personnel:

  • Greg Sinbaldi — Electronic wind instrument, processing, programming

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Links were good as of when the artist performed. Some may no longer work.

Performances:

  • Seaprog 2017 — Day Two
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Artist profile: Jan Koekepan

Jan Koekepan promotional photo
Jan Koekepan promotional photo

Jan Koekepan is a Pacific Northwest musician and composer. His musical roots lie in the rich soil of classical guitar, but he was inspired to grow in the alien light of Kosmische Musik by Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Vangelis. Today he plays an elaborate array of devices that combine to form a symphony of timbral layers, a cloud that floats between Cosmic Music and Space Ambient.

Personnel:

  • Jan Koekepan — Electronic devices

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Artist profile: Jack o’ the Clock

Jack o' the Clock promotional photo
Jack o’ the Clock promotional photo

Oakland’s Jack o’ the Clock “conjures up stirring visions of a hybrid American history, part fact, part poetry, part visionary hallucination…” (Ed Pinsent, Sound Projector, UK). The quintet has been developing its subtle, acoustic avant-rock on stage and in the studio for nearly a decade, and has released five critically-acclaimed original albums as well as an EP of radically-reinvented cover songs. Fred Frith describes them as “one of the most original and compelling groups I know playing some amazing compositions that seem to tread effortlessly between Van Dyke Parks and folk music from an as yet unidentified culture, while making all the things you’ve always thought of as difficult sound as effortless and natural as breathing.”

Personnel:

  • Damon Waitkus — Vocals, guitar, hammer dulcimer
  • Emily Packard — Violin, melodica, psaltery
  • Jordan Glenn — Drums, accordion
  • Jason Hoopes — Bass, vocals
  • Kate McLoughlin — Bassoon, vocals, flute

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