OTAR and the Gglitch
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OTAR loves a wistful melody in a waltz///OTAR is the ache in his voice///OTAR is the guitar that weeps and moans///OTAR writes songs that make his whole body sing///He writes songs that make everybody cry and laugh///OTAR lives for music///REBEL RECORD is OTAR its charged, sincere, melodic, politically outspoken and at times quite ferocious.Band/artist history
The GgLITCH is a TECHNOFUNKROCK band from Iowa City that plays experimental rock,
funk and jazz in a uniquely energetic and powerful way.. The band got started in Ames, Iowa in 1998, when Brian Cretzmyer, a classically trained pianist and Acid-pro techno guru met Ty Byerly(singer/songwriter/entrepeneur) and Casey Coppi (bassist) on the Iowa State Campus.
Several wild basement jam sessions later the core of the band emerged from a fountain of booze, smoke, and sound. From the start, humor, friendship, sonic experimentation and
unicality and an uncompromisingly intense improv became the defining characteristics of the band.
The group started playing on a weekly basis, and playing at bars around Ames, including People's Bar. After several transient changes in drummers,
and aquiring Otar as their guitarist, the band ended up on the U of Iowa campus music scene. Here, the band continued refining its sound and
writing original material, and soon became favorites at the Green Room , Yacht Club, and other local venues, with a growing fan base. In 2006, the Gglitch added another great member to the lineup, a talented bassist Byron Stevens, who's versatility and great musical ear have propelled the Gglitch to new improv heights.
Gglitch concerts draw a young audience for a night of feel-good, structurally interesting, brutally percussive and often melodically dissecting music in a seamless salad of different styles, including funk, rock, reggae, jazz, bluegrass, and circus oohmpa. Interwoven in the risk-taking, demonstrative musicianship and catchy original compositions, the Gglitch serves up a tasty gumbo of hard-swinging rockish covers, by heroes including the Doors, Zappa, Beatles, as well as an occasional jazz standard like Song For My Father, or a silly TV show theme song toodle.Have you performed in front of an audience?Yes! We play around the midwest. On the Sept. 30 we will play at the Yacht Club for our CD release party.
Your musical influences
REBEL RECORD, our first release sounds like a mix between Beatles, Floyd, Radiohead and RavelWhat equipment do you use?
All kinds of guitars, basses, animals and plants
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