Rampant Arts

SYMPHONY VI

TEXAS TANGO

SPRINGSCAPE

Golden Hornet Project presents Symphony VI, our sixth concert of symphonic music by composers Graham Reynolds and Peter Stopschinski. Coming in Spring 2009.

Texas Tango is the debut album by The Tosca String Quartet. Still in early development, the recording will consist of noted vocalists and songwriters collaborating with Tosca on tango arrangements of songs strongly associated with Texas or written by Texans. Glover Johns Gill is arranging the pieces and Ray Benson is executive producing at his Bismeaux studio. Plans call for a tour of major Texas markets to promote the release slated for early 2010.

Coming in Spring 2010, a six week season of performances in a gorgeous Spiegeltent, set in a lush Beergarden in downtown Austin's Palm Park. Rampant Arts is in the planning stages to partner with The Austin Parks Foundation and others to realize this grand vision of community, performance and fun along Waller Creek.

ASYLUM STREET SPANKERS

GRAHAM REYNOLDS

GRETCHEN PHILLIPS

RUBYRICO PRODUCTIONS

THE GOLDEN ARM TRIO

TOSCA STRING QUARTET

GOLDEN HORNET PROJECT

Legendary underground post-modern jugband, theatrical troupe and acoustic innovators.
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Award winning screen and stage composer, acclaimed bandleader.
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Pioneering singer, songwriter, musician and memoirist.
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Stylishly depraved avant-vaudeville cabaret.
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The supercharged performance vehicle of composer and bandleader Graham Reynolds tours clubs and festivals.
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Stunning tango and classical crossover specialists.
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Creating and presenting new composed music from beyond the academy.
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RUBYRICO'S PEEPSHOW MAGNIFICO

WHAT? AND GIVE UP SHOW BIZ?

I'M NOT JIM

MANLOVE

CULT OF COLOR: CALL TO COLOR

GOLDEN ARM TRIO - DUKE!

UNO TANGO

This hilariously sexy romp features the No Salvation Army Band playing inventive arrangements of classic songs by Cole Porter, Prince, The Rolling Stones, The White Stripes, Queen and many others, while the provocative Peepshow Dancers (sporting banana skirts, fur underwear and the occasional animal costume) take you on a wild choreographic ride – from Bollywood to the bullring, from Russia to Buenos Aires – with magicians, acrobats, jugglers and a titanically drunken MC in tow.
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In January, 2008, the Asylum Street Spankers set up shop for two weeks at New York's Barrow Street Theatre. Juicing their acclaimed live show with a double shot of theatricality, the Spankers interwove tales of the ups and downs of life on the road with favorite songs old and new. The shows were recorded, edited and released as a two CD set. The stage production is available for theatrical bookings and an Austin remount is planned for 2009.
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This collaboration between acclaimed Cuban American songwriter Walter Salas Humara (The Silos), major literary figure Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, Fortress of Solitude) and avant production team Elegant Too (Yoko Ono, They Might Be Giants, John Cale, Diddy) produced one of the most interesting albums of 2008, You Are All My People. Live, the group goes on wild spoken word excursions, explores electronic soundscapes and delivers urgent, incisive rock music. I'm Not Jim are available starting in Spring 2010, in the wake of of Lethem's next novel, due in September of this year and the release of the film version of Motherless Brooklyn, directed by Edward Norton. Their performances include an audience talkback addressing the nature of their unusual merger of literary sensibility, sturdy melodies and experimental production.
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The latest musical memoir from Gretchen Phillips chronicles her struggles and successes with Manlove. The follow up to 2007's Don't Stop Believin', a memoir of growing up gay in a conservative Christian household, Manlove addresses a lesbian's multi-faceted love and appreciation of men with Gretchen's offbeat humor, warm and inclusive songwriting and singular perspective. Manlove is available for the 2010-2011 season.
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Rampant Arts consulted on the narrative for this ground-breaking collaboration between visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, choreographer Stephen Mills and composer Graham Reynolds. Produced by Ballet Austin, Cult of Color: Call to Color brings to life one episode of the sprawling mythology that Hancock has developed over his entire career. Visually stunning costume and set design by Hancock is matched by dazzling, beyond category choreography set to an endlessly inventive score. Available to tour now.
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The new recording and touring project from Graham Reynolds, DUKE! is a musical essay on the legacy of Duke Ellington. Taking on the daunting song book of America's greatest composer, Reynolds eschews the complex experimentation of his recent film and dance scores for straightforward arrangements built around his piano playing and propelled by the Golden Arm Trio's explosive rhythm section and hard charging horn section. The result is a fresh, accessible updating of some of music's most enduring standards. The album and a national tour are planned for 2009.
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Composer Glover Johns Gill and his Tosca Tango Orchestra (featuring The Tosca String Quartet) has collaborated with choreographer Sharna Fabiano to create the gorgeously meditative Uno Tango, a fusion of modern dance and Argentine tango. Uno Tango premiered in December 2008 at The Festival Cambalache in Buenos Aires. It is available alone or as part of a program that includes tango instruction and a dance concert. For more information contact John Riedie.

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PRODUCTION
Rampant Arts has produced a variety of projects for past and present clients. We are accepting proposals for outside production work at production@rampant-arts.com.

CONSULTING
We offer creative consulting to artists or producers seeking an outside perspective from a creative team with a broad range of arts and production experience. Fees vary by project. Send comprehensive details to consulting@rampant-arts.com.

MANAGEMENT
We do no accept unsolicited management requests.

Rampant Arts is a full service management and production company representing adventurous, unconventional musicians and their collaborative projects in theater, dance, film and visual art.

Founded in 1999 as an independent record label and booking agency, in 2007 Rampant Arts shifted its focus to the performing arts world, producing several multi-disciplinary projects in Austin and New York.

EPKs for current shows:
What? And Give Up Show Biz?
Cult of Color: Call to Color
Manlove
Duke

Graham Reynolds in on the cover of the current Austin Chronicle.

Golden Hornet Project kicked off its 10th Anniversary Season with the phenomenal Tosca String Quartet. Read the rave review from the Austin American Statesman's Arts Critic Jeanne Claire van Ryzin.

Arts critic Robert Faires has named Cult of Color: Call to Color the #1 dance event of 2008, while Wayne Alan Brenner named it his #1 arts event of the year.

Reviews of What? And Give Up Show Biz?, the new album by Asylum Street Spankers, are rolling in: Acoustic Music, Robert Christgau, The Austin Chronicle, AllMusic Guide, PopMatters, Blurt and BlogCritics.

The Austin Chronicle has a nice feature on Gretchen Phillips and her new show Manlove.

WORLD PREMIERE!
PVC Surround, the latest sonic experiment from the Golden Hornet Project. Two shows only: May 2 at 2pm and 5pm, in the lobby of 100 Congress Ave, Austin. Part of the FuseBox Festival. Free!

The Asylum Street Spankers tour the east beginning May 6 in New Orleans. With co-bandleader Christina Marrs on maternity leave, the all-male lineup is dubbing this tour SausageFest 2009.