More old-ish news. Filmmaker/ musician / sperm donor / real estate entrepreneur /renaissance man Vincent Gallo has teamed up ex-Hole frankenstien guitarist Eric Erlandson to form the musical project Rriiccee.
The mostly improv-friendly group apparently does not perform pre-written music and is never limited to the boundaries of one musical genre (isn’t that nice). Evidently Rriiccee has no recorded music and has no plans on recording a commercial release.
Awesome, way to promote yourselves guys.
Gallo commented on what it is Rriiccee is actually trying to do. “Improvisation is not a good word for what we’re doing. It’s more a gesture of composing and performing at the same time, always hoping to avoid musical cliché or jamming. We’ve chosen not to go into a studio in a traditional way like other bands have done in the past. Instead, we’ve chosen to remain open, to grow and change more naturally, and when we play live, the music is often created during the performance. If we choose to record a performance, the recording itself is only evidence of that creative moment. The purpose of recording then, is to listen back for enjoyment.”
Something tells us this group is headed for the top of of the charts. Good luck you both. Tour dates for this wunderkind band have been announced.
What we really want to know is when is Gallo making another movie?
Um… I can’t help it but Eric Erlandson…. ‘frankenstein’ ??? I’ve got to point out… you’re talking about how this man looks? His genetic structure? And making fun of that? Tell me the point of that in a website that’s dealing with film and music. Besides the obvious… that it’s just kind of second grade schoolyard idiocy… it’s really just mean. And then the belittling… ‘Awesome way to promote yourselves, guys…’ in reference to the band not putting out any materials? Myself, I applaud anyone that’s gonna challenge the commercial infrastructure… If a band is gonna out and out state that they’re doing things differently and NOT put out records… that should be encouraged, not made fun of. It’s ridiculous to assume that everyone is in that business to ‘self promote’ anyway. Your writing is coming across like a simpleton bully, you know that, right?
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