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.
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, mementos, 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.
credits
released July 10, 2022
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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