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Artist/Audio Sculptor/Poet/Independent FilmmakerFollow Arzathon on Spotify...Other albums by Arzathon, Heavy Metal Vampires on Nuclear Waste, Dreamtime Troubadours, available to stream on spotify Rodent Tapes An original and complex Audio Sculpted Psychedelic project founded during the 80's Music/soundscapes created by Arzathon, DreamtimeTroubadours, Trolls on Acid, Heavy Metal Vampires on Nuclear Waste, featuring artists Don Campau, Shanna Dawn, Kristianne Gale andothers. Music that draws you in, a spiritual /tribal experience like no other.Some pieces are heavily influence ...read more

Artist/Audio Sculptor/Poet/Independent FilmmakerFollow Arzathon on Spotify...Other albums by Arzathon, Heavy Metal Vampires on Nuclear Waste, Dreamtime Troubadours, available to stream on spotify Rodent Tapes An original and complex Audio Sculpted Psychedelic project founded during the 80's Music/soundscapes created by Arzathon, DreamtimeTroubadours, Trolls on Acid, Heavy Metal Vampires on Nuclear Waste, featuring artists Don Campau, Shanna Dawn, Kristianne Gale andothers. Music that draws you in, a spiritual /tribal experience like no other.Some pieces are heavily influenced by early krautrock infectiousgrooves but the whole musical signature consists of audio sculpted psychedelic electronic epics covered by harmonized acid rockin dynamics.Largely improvised and a dangerously lysergic sounding experience.Arzathon is a prolific Audio Artist, there was a long gap during the nineties with very little output. He has also recorded in the past using thename Gypsy. These recordings are being reissued as Arzathon (the artist formly known as Gypsy). He has also collaborated on other projectssuch as Heavy Metal Vampires on Nuclear Waste & Trolls on Acid & Dreamtime Troubadours, with many different artists from around theworld.Collaborators Franco Falsini Falsini, born 1948 in Florence (Italy), moved to Virginia in 1969, where he set up a basement studio and experimented with a Moog and four- track taping before returning to Italy to form the band Sensations Fix .The group signed with Polydor Records in 1974 to a five-year, six- album contract.Later, in 1983, Falsini reappeared as guitarist and producer of the electro-pop group The Antennas, that released an LP and asingle in France. The years after where mainly spentto learn computer programming and how that could intereact with music recording. In the 90s he was producing techno music, danceoriented, with his own label Interactive Test. From the years 2000 his life becomes nomadic as well as his live appeareance and musicproduction. In this last year his old work has been re-issue by many labels, most notably RVNG record and Spectrum Spool. Don Campau Musician, radio host and archivist, Don Campau has been active in music since 1969.From 1969-1974, Don, Geoff Alexander and other friendsrecorded as The Roots Of Madness, a bizarre, avant garde collective that released one record album in 1971. The early tapes are now alsoavailable as CDs. In 1971 Don also began hosting a radio program on KTAO-FM in Los Gatos California under the mentorship of Lorenzo W.Milam, one of the founding fathers of community radio in the USA. This show incorporated ethnic, avant garde jazz, baroque, modernclassical, early home recordings and outsider material. In 1978 Don began hosting a radio program on KKUP-FM in Cupertino, California. Atthe time, the show featured jazz, ethnic, contemporary classical, improvised and some early home recordings. In 1985 the format of “NoPigeonholes” was established and became home recorded cassettes from the international home recording movement called “cassetteculture”. The music covered many styles from rock,folk, outsider, oddball, punk, electronic and much more.Don continues broadcasting home recorded, small studio and independent music fromaround the world not only on KKUP but also throughout Europe on Radio Marabu and also on the net on The Luver.comThe Lonely Whistle labelwas started in 1984 to house not only Don Campau albums but other releases from friends and musical associates. Kristianne Gale I like to attend Irish and American Traditional music sessions to sing unaccompanied. I have worked with a tremendous Experimental Musicgroup called Biota on an album called “Half A True Day.” Another album with them is currently underway. I write some songs but enjoyimprovisation and singing devastating murder ballads. Phil Ogison Born Folkestone Kent 1948, lived in Canada for the last 40something years. Started as a drummer in local bands in Whitehorse, YukonTerritory in 1967, started to pick up guitar seriously in 1970. Played in various psychedelic outfits (notably a band called Oberon, which wasthe forerunner of another band called The Melodic Energy Commission (which at times included Paul Rudolf of Pink Faeries and Del Dettmarof Hawkwind) Moved to Ontario Canada and played in lots of bands, New Wave, Punk, Psych/Jam and ( Experimental at University ofWaterloo’s Independent Studies Program.) Became part of The AMBiENT PiNG community in Toronto, and have played pretty regularly atvenues in Toronto associated with the PiNG. Lots of collabs, notably with Anne Sulikowski (Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks) and others.Solo project (recently expanded to a trio) The Devil In The Design HAROLD (psyche/jam band) and Moon Dandies with my wife CatherineTammaro and Jeff Howard (also in TDITD and HAROLD) Belinda Subraman A poet, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, artist, traveler and Registered Nurse. Working on a novel. Latest poetry book is BLUE ROOMS, BLACKHOLES, WHITE LIGHTS. Brian Fowler Brian has recorded 3 albums w/ Spaceseed and has written songs with members of Jefferson Airplane,Hawkwind and Moby Grape members.Brian’s a multi-instrumentalist plays and records w/ a Myriad of groups such as…Spaceseed, San Francisco Blue, Southern Ashe, Bibb CityRambers Bret Hart I lived in Korea for 4 years. I was a Korean translator. I spent a year and a half doing nothing but 100% immersion in Korean culture andlanguage. Before I went there I was out in California around 1983/84. I met my first group of improvisors with whom I established some kindof a kinship. It's what broke me away from jazz and progressive things, and the acoustic things I'd been doing in the late 70s. I realized thatthe way I play guitar is based on the fact that I started off in music on the trombone, and I really think like a horn player. At this point Iknow that, but back then I couldn't figure out why people had trouble learning my songs. And it's because some of the structures aremelodically and harmonically really suited more for a brass section. You'll hear a lot of trombone-like things occurring, even in my acousticmusic. I've been accused of playing slide when I'm not playing slide, when in fact I may be using a fretless instrument. My first label startedout in 1983 and it was called Kamsa Tapes. And that was the first moniker under which I was putting my stuff out, and at the time I wasdoing this really dense, harsh guitar layering music. And that was more harsh music of that sort. At the time I was only putting my own stuffout, but there was some collaboration creeping in.Links for Bret will be added, but if you search here in the archives you will find tones of stuff.... Rodent Tapes first appeared on the underground scene in the days before the www. A label which only dealt in underground music, the tapescene, home recorded music…these days with computors that once small underground scene has grown, and music is no longer being heldhostage by corporations and with a bit of cyber surfing all kinds of exciting sounds can be found, for the most part a million miles fromanything corporations would ever think of dealing in…no dollar signs to make many of these ventures attractive to corporations. You have asmuch chance of winning the lottery as recieving a recording contract, there just aren’t enough places to go around…never have been, neverwill be…Do it yourself…the only way to go…we don’t need big record …corporations they need us…the dreams they have to offer are in truthnightmares. …Support Internet Artist By buying some art Thank-You « hide