Set in an expansive parking lot at Denver’s Mission Ballroom, SYPHERLOT exploded to life during a time when any/all live music had been sequestered to digital platforms. Itchy-O blew collective minds and blanketed attendees in a cloak of fire, noise, and rhythm, eviscerating old (and new) ideas of entertainment, rewriting the book on what could be achieved at a socially distanced drive-in performance.
HALLOWMASS : OCT 2020
This series of spectacle and offertory shook the now-demolished New Tech Machinery building to its foundation during this most hallowed time of year. As the group’s tradition entered its seventh year, artifacts, momentos, and representations were collected on trays from attendee vehicles and later burned in an after-ceremony to honor impermanence and the loss felt so heavily in 2020.
This album is a documented record of those moments, a snapshot of the resulting sacraments ushering in a rapturous sonic bath of transcendental unifying magic, etched now and forever in very polyvinyl chloride, and simulated digitally to download.
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released November 5, 2021
Credits:
Musicians
Ethan Alexander - Bass
Bryan Aquino - Snare
Scott Banning - Roto Toms
David Britton - Microkorg
Rob Burleson - Cymbals
Carlo Campagna - Cymbals
Collin Elliot - Samples/Synth/Keys
Nick Gonzales - Samples/Effects
Joe Hatfield - Timbales
Thomas Knight - Taiko
Jackson Lynn - Taiko
Allison Marcellus - Cymbals
James Nelson - Guitar
Tim Pettit - Cymbals/Bass Drum
Toni Rib - Taiko
Hanne Schrickx - Cymbals
Brad Schumacher - Vocoder
Aaron Spriggs - Effects/Theremin
Matt Steitle - Taiko/Quint-Tenors
Kirsten Vermulen - Microkorg
Production
Nicole Banowetz - Inflatables
Geoff Brent - Khaos Kruew
Megs Burd - Lion/Beast
Jackson Ellis - Special Effects
Maristella Frisch - Wardrobe
Mike Grimsley - Khaos Kruew
Lyndsey Hays - Kriechen Kruew
Lucinda Herrera - Kriechen Kruew
David Kessner - Special Effects/Khaos Kruew
Micah Kessner - Special Effects
Jamil Khera - Lighting/Production
Ethan Klein - Lighting/Production
John Knudsen - Kriechen Kruew
Archie Jenks - Khaos Kruew
Andrew Linares - Khaos Kruew/Cryo
Nafeesa Lynn - Kriechen Kruew
Moose Mamet - Khaos Kruew
Allison Marcellus - Lion/Beast
Mark Moffett - Special Effects
Chloe Morgan - Live Engineer
Chelsea Nunez - Lion/Beast
Cory Phare - Publicist/Merch
Liz Pickard - Khaos Kruew
David Poore - Lion/Beast
Atlas Ryan - Khaos Kruew
Wayne Scott - Lion/Beast
Thomas Silaghy - Cryo/Khaos Kruew
Brad Smalling - Lead Live Engineer
Erin Smith - Lighting Designer
Will Tuttle - Cryo/Khaos Kruew
Sara Valentine - Kriechen Kruew
Niza Volair - Kriechen Kruew/Lion/Beast
Davis Weimer - Live Engineer
Bernard Wooten - Khaos Kruew
Cetan Zephier - Lion/Beast
Wakinyan Zephier - Khaos Kruew
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered at Evergroove Studio, Evergreen Colorado
Produced by Scott Banning and itchy-O
Recording, Mixing, Mastering Engineer - Brad Smalling
Assistant Mixing and Recording Engineer - Davis Weimer
Assistant Recording Engineer - Chloe Davis
Album Art by Hatfield Design
Photography - Michael Rehdish, Martin Soderham, and Memorandum Media
Special Thanks
Denver Film Society, Evergroove Studio, Scott Happel, HQ Entertainment, Exdo Events, Michael Patterson, Jello Biafra, Mighty Fine Productionsjull, City,O’City, Denver Fire Department, All-Around Metal Fabrication, Ratio Beerworks, Alamo Drafthouse, North Wynkoop, Ritualcravt, and big love to Sol Tribe Tattoo and Body Piercing
Itchy-O aspires to create transcendent spiritual experiences with performances. With a driving drum corps battery, taiko
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