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The best kept secret in music
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Maybe you’re better with words than I am. On Friday,
October 8, 2004 the Felix Sarco Band played the junior
ballroom of Scranton Cultural Center. The following
day someone said to me, "What was the band like?" I
couldn’t describe what they are, but I could sure tell
you what they are not. They’re not like anything like
I ever saw or heard. These guys are original like
candy is sweet.
The performance was like watching a living-breathing
creature being formed. Sarco completely fills the eyes
and ears. They rewire your circuits to bypass the
brain to let the primal beast inside take command. The
music was a drug.
Abandoning all self-control, front man Gavin Robb
prances, dances and minces with the unstoppable power
of a loaded freight train doing 70. He navigates the
stage with some inhuman bat sonar that stops him half
a hair from destruction. You are in the presence of
something savage and untamed. Civilization stopped at
the front door.
The sound is as dense as white noise. It has the
intensity of a peyote ritual that precedes the end of
the world.
Gavin paints his voice with echo and phase shifters
to the point where it’s an unpredictable electronic
instrument with a key for every note and emotion in
history. He looks so Glam rock for the first four
minutes with his red prom dress and pink dayglow wig.
Minute five and it’s just him and his boxers. Is he a
transvestite, a nudist, or a space traveler who parked
his flying saucer outside with the motor running? It
is not necessary to understand English to get
everything he sings. It’s not necessary to understand
any language.
The band snarls and growls and on a whim drags the
crowd into a frenzy. Like a marionette master
Gavin pulled the crowd’s strings from a sultry
sway-in-the-breeze to a foaming-at-the-mouth frenzy.
Just when you think you are spent, they hit you with
another wave of power and off you go.
In any other band this keyboard player, C.C.
Pyschotica, would be the center of attention, but in
this band it’s like a force five hurricane behind the
synthesizer competing with a Krakatao eruption at
center stage. Sensory overload is the order of the
day.
If you are anything like me, you will leave the show
wet, throbbing and at once spent and completely
recharged. And possibly with some well-earned
deafness. This is music deconstructed and reassembled
just one inch this side of madness. They dare to be
different and revel in it. - The Outlook (Fall '04)
Discography
Who Touches Who - Released August 2004
Singles "Bubble Boy" and "White Nectarines"
have been featured in several radio showcases (97.9x 102.3 the mountain), and also in regular rotation.
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Feeling a bit camera shy
Bio
Wild, fast paced dance beats, a blend of operatic and peculiar vocal work, layered with heavy rock guitar, funk bass, and other worldly synthesizer creates a highly approachable funk infused hybrid of psycho-pop rock and roll.
The band has drawn comparisons to Jane's Addiction, Faith No More, David Bowie, Pink Floyd and Marylin Manson among others, and has shared the bill with national acts such as Rusted Root, Head Automatica, and Fallout Boy.
Sporadic fits of improvisational jams and sonic spirals accompany the band's full compositions. The music can be described as an "audio collage," taking fragments of several music standards and placing them in strange company.
Allowing every member to work on each piece as they see fit has allowed the band to create a unique experience for show goers of every imaginable category.
A firm belief in unified individuality through the elimination of musical cliques and so-called scenes has created an eclectic following in the band's N.E. PA local region. Placing a tongue in cheek importance on reality and one's appearance therein, through lavish and ever changing costumes, the band has successfully encouraged it's fans to follow suit, creating a masquerade like atmosphere with audience members and performers alike dressed in a wide variety of styles that cover the full fashion spectrum. With an unbridled passion for highly unorthodox movement, thought and music, Felix Sarco aims to redefine societal boundaries, both musically and visually. Several members of the band, also visual artists as well as musicians, often create and display on stage light and art galleries, adding a unique atmosphere in coordination with the usual "club lighting."
With such an eclectic palette and entertaining presence, an evening with Felix Sarco's P.P.M.M.S. promises absolutely nothing!!!
and everything...
Paid for by "the comittee to book Felix Sarco"
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