ESCAPE-ISM
ESCAPE-ISM
Date: Sun May 19
Stage: Farm
ESCAPE-ISM —known as the “found sound
dream drama”— is a group specializing in
“minimal rock ’n’ roll” led by Ian F Svenonius on
voice, beat machine, and electric guitar &
featuring Sandi Denton on electric bass guitar,
voice, & keyboard.
As art & expression kneels in servility to
corporate dictums, ESCAPE-ISM is an outlier.
The “rock ’n’ roll animinimalist” rides the rails
with a bindle stick, a “what me worry?” tramp
who haunts out of the way watering holes
frequented by the roughshod holdouts against
total conformity.
Known for their offhand musical insouciance,
ESCAPE-ISM is the leader of an international
anti-everything network dubbed the “beneath
the underground.”
Their latest single “The Rebel Outlaw”
succinctly summarizes the ethos of this
movement. ESCAPE-ISM host a series of
evenings at Los Angles’ Zebulon nightclub
entitled “Rated Z”, named for their full length
album Rated Z (2022, Radical Elite/Monotone
Records).
In 2021, ESCAPE-ISM released “A Protest
Against Sound,” a 38 minute silent record on
their own label, Radical Elite Records, to
register their discontent with the state of music.
The next year, the group released a feature
length film THE LOST RECORD (directed &
produced by I.F. Svenonius & A. Cabral), based
on the ESCAPE-ISM album of the same name.
It won several awards (Chicago Underground
Film Festival, Belgrade Film Festival, etc) and
toured the arthouses of the world. The
soundtrack to this record will be released on In
The Red Records.
ESCAPE-ISM represents our last hope to wreck
civilization. All hail Minimal Rock ’n’ Roll!
Contact
Ian F Svenonius at djnamenames@gmail.com
or
Alisa@groundcontroltouring.com