Inspired by Don Caballero, Battles, or From Monument To Masses, Ed Wood Jr hits where it’s surprising. Between samples and guitars loops, between equations and pure energy, the two pieces band from Lille ethereal atmospheres, pierced tight and psychotic passages.
But beyond the complex structures combining syncopated rhythms and mathematics passages, Ed Wood Jr is foremost a rock band.
Created in 2008, the band has been busy: an EP in april 2008 and a first album “Ruban de Möbius” (Swarm records) on May 2010. They toured in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, England, Belgium, Spain and France of course to arrive at the output of a second album in Novem- ber 2011.
This activism has allowed them now to be recognized by specialists as one of the best bands of the french rock scene…
After his first two releases Welcome Song (2007 Sickroom Records) and Flight of the Liophant (2007 Sickroom Records), Alexis Gideon has switched gears with his creation of his animated/claymated video opera Video Musics (2009 African Tape Records/Sickroom Records). Alexis Gideon has toured nationally with Dan Deacon and Shelley Short as well as played shows with Barr , Marnie Stern , Panther, Parts and Labor, Ear Pwr, Zs, People, Matt and Kim and many others.