2007: Eddie the Rat

Eddie the Rat began in 2000 as an avant-(something) group led by composer/multi-instrumentalist Peter J. Martin. Beginning as a one-man electro-acoustic experiment, Eddie the Rat evolved into an ensemble of up to 15 musicians. The current quartet has been performing actively for the last year and a half.

Martin desribes Eddie the Rat music as “head music for your feet:” conceptual in inspiration, primal and visceral in execution. Amoeba Records calls it “sexy avant-garde.” Inspired by Indonesian gamelan, American & European folk, and modern 12-tone music, Eddie the Rat tries to bridge the gap between ritual, roots, and concert music.

Eddie the Rat is a music group as much as a musical form onto itself as directed by Martin's personal compositional and bandleading style. The ideal is to cultivate each member's artistic personality into a coordinated musical expression, rather than highlight individual capabilities through soloing, etc… What might sound like “free-form” is carefully composed and meticulously rehersed, with the arrangements being intended to work for any idiom such as a rock band, musique concrete, or orchestra. It's All Part Of The Ongoing Construct.

Dan Ake: Lobro, Spike, 2x6
Ronnie Camaro: bass, vocals
Peter J. Martin: piano, cajon (left foot), bass drum (right foot), vocals, Balinese gangsa, Long-Boy, Proto
Molly Tascone: vocals, recorder, glockenspiel, steel drum, triangle

Artist (photo by Photographer)