Grex Electric Ghost Parade Album Release Show
Featuring
IMA,
Qualia, &
Scott Amendola's Orchestra di Pazzi
Oakland art rock band Grex stages a triumphant homecoming show to celebrate the release of the new album Electric Ghost Parade, joined by an array of Bay Area mind-benders: entrancing electro-percussion duo IMA, prog/soul powerhouses Qualia, and special chamber version of
Scott Amendola's epic Orchestra di Pazzi.
Grex is an art rock band based out of Oakland, California. In biological terms, “grex” refers to the aggregation of a multitude of tiny, amoeba-like creatures combining to create a superorganism. Grex (the band) works the same way: two musicians who can function as one, the whole greater than the sum of its parts.
Grex is a collaboration between guitarist/vocalist
Karl Evangelista, a Los Angeles native, and keyboardist/vocalist Rei Scampavia, originally from Arlington, Virginia. The band’s mission: to explore the meeting point between fun, delightfully strange songcraft and the dark outer reaches of experimental music. The group has been called “an otherworldly experience” (Eugene Weekly) and “true genre warping music” (KFJC), recalling the explosive energy of Jimi Hendrix, the dark power of the Pixies, and the whimsical weirdness of Deerhoof.
Grex’s most recent album, entitled Electric Ghost Parade, is its magnum opus—an exhilarating, incendiary, and unpredictable paean to the epic psychedelic albums of the 1960’s, traversing the cutting edge of modern indie rock, noise, and free jazz.
Cost: $7