Artists
Illusion of Art
Illusion of Art is bad pretentious music for bad pretentious French art films. Picture a black and white movie with a crying mime doing housework in midmorning closing with the word “Fin;” you won't be far off.
Illusion of Art is textural progressive music done with obscure processes with a preoccupation with Hellenized Judeo-Christian mythos as well as other esoteric topics no one is interested in. Listening, one could find samples from orchestras, Nintendos, Commodore 64's, vintage synths, obsessiveness about surrealist films from the 1920's, Valentinus, German opera, Zoroastrianism, Jungian psychology, and the theories of David Bohm, as well a compulsion to use trackers and other software and electronic equipment not very popular with the creation of music.
Graham Hill is the sole member of Illusion of Art and writes and performs all the music. The project started in the summer of 2000 as an outlet for pent-up musical frustration to be vented. The process is to conceive the song, then to mock, denigrate, and finally destroy it. What is left to be heard are the miserable final days of the song up to its execution.
To date, no one actually listens to Illusion of Art and it is understandable as to why.
Seven Years of Tribulation
Seven Years of Tribulation is the project originally comprising of Lawrence Saylor and Graham Hill (Illusion of Art). This first record shows a black humored look at fundamentalism, child like imagery describing one's orifices, and the girl we all want who obsesses about fossils and wears them in her hair. Lyrics to one track, "1989", came from a religious pamphlet stating the world would end in 1989, which it more or less did. Audio for another track came from a cassette accompanying the pamphlet further stating the world would end in 1989, which again it did. The other tracks were supplied by Lawrence's poetry with the exception of "Sign it All Over to Us," a track that was never used for Illusion of Art but fit Seven Years of Tribulation perfectly. Seven Years of Tribulation are currently writing another record and now have two new members.
Nebula 444
Nebula 444 is the solo project of one Mr. Nathan Jeter, who makes his music with the aid of his old PC's and other sordid assorted sources of sound. The body of work from Nebula 444, while bearing the indelible mark of an electronic influence is diverse enough to range from drones, dance beats, symphonic instrumentation, and complex polyrhythms, all coming from a studio as unique as the product that comes from it.
