Neptune's origins trace to 1994 as a sculpture project by Boston artist/musician Jason Sanford, who forged the band's haphazard guitars and reluctant drums from scrap steel and found objects. Eight lineups, twenty-four releases and hundreds of instruments later, the band continues to wrench its sound spatter on self-built instruments to often confounded audiences around the world.

In 2007, they released Gong Lake with avant arbiter Table of the Elements, home to art heroes Tony Conrad, Rhys Chatham and Faust.

Neptune has shared the stage with a variety of influential artists such as The Ex, Mission of Burma, Ut, Oneida, Lightning Bolt, The Flaming Lips, Blonde Redhead, Melt-Banana, Charles Hayward, Liars, Black Dice, James Chance & the Contortions, Gang Gang Dance, The Dresden Dolls, Six Finger Satellite, and Wolf Eyes.

Sanford and longtime Neptune collaborator Mark Pearson are currently joined by musician/instrument inventor Kevin Micka, redefining their music and creating new sounds from scratch. Propulsive percussion and sonorous electronics tangle with Sanford's microtonal string creations with a refined minimalism, adding a new chapter to the band's ever-evolving story.

RORCAL sees the light in Geneva (Switzerland) in 2006.

After four efforts between 2007 and 2008 and about fifty shows through Europe, the band is now ready to release its fifth block : HELIOGABALUS.

This one marks a radical change in the band's music. Obsessively dark and heavy, this 70 minutes monolithic piece sees RORCAL sink deeper into the abysses of sound.

Somewhere between Drone and Doom, let yourself go into the bowels of the whale.

Next paths traced by Fritz Hauser , Lê Quan Ninh or Chris Corsano, he said through his solo projects, its place as a percussionist and musician in their own right.

The exploration of space by the diffusion of sound and staging of the musician from the public, have become a recurring theme in his projects.


Having started in 2011 by transforming its kit using sensors, Jason Van Gulick returns with a purely acoustic set,

In this solo he developed a rhythmic and physical appraoch that plays mainly on the production of sound environment where natural drum

sounds confront with its dissemination in space. It creates in holding catchy sound masses see massive and subtle melodic and poetic moments leave

a full place for improvisation in these live developments.