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ANAMANAGUCHI IS PETER BERKMAN (DALLAS), ARY WARNAAR (NEW YORK CITY), LUKE SILAS (LOS ANGELES) AND JAMES DEVITO (PROVIDENCE), ORIGINALLY FORMED IN NEW YORK. THEY ARE A MULTI-FACETED GROUP OF RECORDING ARTISTS & CREATIVE DIRECTORS (I.E. A BAND).

THEY ARE LIVE PERFORMERS & MUSIC COMPOSERS-- IN 2023 SCORING THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NETFLIX SERIES 'SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF' WITH CO-COMPOSER JOE TRAPANESE (TRON: LEGACY, NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU), THE SOUNDTRACK BECAME AN AMAZON TOP SELLER. THEIR LATEST ALBUM [USA] WAS RELEASED ON THE DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN INDEPENDENT POLYVINYL RECORDS IMPRINT.

ANAMANAGUCHI BEGAN SCORING IN 2010 WITH UBISOFT'S SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD: THE GAME, RESULTING IN A BILLBOARD-CHARTING SOUNDTRACK RELEASED BY ABKCO RECORDS. THEIR ORIGINAL COMPOSITION WORK HAS BEEN FEATURED IN TV (CBS SATURDAY MORNING), FILM (21 JUMP STREET), VIDEO GAMES (ROCKET LEAGUE, LITTLE BIG PLANET), AND VARIOUS BRANDS (DISCORD, TELFAR, TACO BELL, TARGET).

THE BAND HAS TOURED ACROSS NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE AND ASIA, INCLUDING FESTIVALS LOLLAPALOOZA (CHICAGO), ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL (SEOUL & MIAMI), OSHEAGA (MONTRÉAL). THEIR LIVE SHOWS INCLUDE VISUAL SET PRODUCTION FROM BAND MEMBER DEVITO (FOUNDER OF SMOOTH TECHNOLOGY, KNOWN FOR THEIR WORK WITH TAYLOR SWIFT, LADY GAGA).

ANAMANAGUCHI IS AN INTERNET BAND. WHILE THE FOUR MEMBERS PRESENT AS A TRADITIONAL ROCK BAND ON STAGE (GUITAR, BASS AND DRUMS), THEY ARE MULTI-INSTRUMENTALISTS CLASSICALLY TRAINED IN MUSIC COMPOSITION, HOLD DEGREES IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC PRODUCTION, AND HAVE A LESS-INSTITUTIONALLY-RECOGNIZED SPECIALTY IN EARLY VIDEO GAME CONSOLE MUSIC PRODUCTION (SUCH AS NES, SNES, AND GAME BOY).

A Man Called Son (AMCS) is the ongoing project of Simon Pearlman. Conceived in Brisbane (Australia), Simon (guitars/vox/keys and other instruments) initially created AMCS as a home studio project. After a relocation to Melbourne and various lineups over the years, AMCS has released three albums, several EPs, and a plethora of additional material. The "fourth-coming" album 'Timebombs in the Sea' is due for release in November 2022. The melancholy, downbeat atmosphere of first single 'What We Had' was later followed by a second, faster yet still downbeat single 'Plateau' in 2021. Both received rave reviews and drew comparisons to fellow natives Paul Kelly, The Church and The Go-Betweens. Based on these encouraging appraisals, Simon promises even more downbeat and melancholy offerings to come. Catch A Man Called Son in rare solo mode on Sun 6 November at the Front Bar.

Major Bummer woke up one evening and decided to place an ad in the Musicians Wanted section of their local guitar shop. It read: “Own gear own transporting no time-wasting band require member(s) to create grand musical project kinda like The Replacements playing Wilco's Being There with Malkmus and Mascis replacing Nels and the other guy while Beach Boys overdub harmonies from their death beds via Skype.” Over the course of a year they received no replies; all 28 tear-off tabs (with landline phone number) remained attached. So they decided to go another way, and just asked their guitar playing friends to join. With world peace, universal harmony and first contact with extra-terrestrials at stake, particular special care was taken on Party Time to get the Guitar Solo / Chorus ratio just right, all the while building intergalactic yet microscopic layers of resonating transmissions that can be sent into space with ease and still sound OK on the white headphones you get free with your ...