SPOTLIGHT: ITCHY-O'S RETURN TO THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
With a driving drum corps battery, taiko drummers, an arsenal of electronics including synthesizers, theremin, vocoders, and other custom-made sonic devices, itchy-O completely engulfs an audience from every angle in an electric bog of music, ephemera, and spectacle. Lauded as one of today’s most unique musical performance experiences, the group disrupts traditional performance protocols with a form of chaos that unifies spectators and audiences. Itchy-O performances awaken the senses, test assumptions, and create an opening for new experiences where identity and boundaries surrender and disband.
Itchy-O creates transcendent musical experiences by blending iconographies in an effort to provide a distinctive offering. The resulting chaos dissolves familiarities, awakens possibilities, and employs the true nature and power of hive-minded ceremony. With a performance troupe of over 50+ musicians, dancers, puppeteers, and special effects experts, itchy-O creates a space where the performer and audience co-create an ecstatic artistic experience. The percussive rhythms of the drum battery and taiko drums shake all tenants of tradition and intermingle with unique custom-crafted electronic devices, providing a primal-futuristic spiritual immersion.
IMPACT~ ARTISTIC, INTELLECTUAL, COMMUNAL, CIVIC, SOCIAL:
Societies today largely choose what to see, hear, and believe. Our lives are carefully curated and programmed by ourselves and outside influences. Itchy-O challenges that hierarchy of choice and control by inserting its one-of-a-kind creative chaos. We invite our audiences to embrace mystery by passing between knowing and unknowing, self and other. Performances create a temporary community of co-creators who surrender control as observers to become a part of manifesting a shared artistic experience.
RADICAL, TRANSCENDENTAL, MUSICAL-PERFORMANCE, INCLUSION
Itchy-O aspires to create transcendent spiritual experiences with performances that confound the senses and disorient perceptions of place, time, order, reason and categorical identity. We invite our audiences to embrace mystery and join us in passing between knowing, unknowing, self and other.
For the first time since 2019, itchy-O returns to the Bay to ignite a two-night ceremonial arc.
Two cities. Two nights. One mythic rift.
Joining both nights is Death Guild, America’s longest-running gothic and industrial dance institution. With deep roots in the Bay Area’s underground and a legacy that includes their iconic Thunderdome at Burning Man, Death Guild will open each evening with their ritual presence, and charge that sets the field for what will follow.
NIGHT ONE: THE DESCENT
August 22 – Great American Music Hall, San Francisco
The glyph fractures. The Current wakes.
We open the rite in the western corridor. It’s been over a decade since itchy-O entered this hall. Expect rupture. Death Guild sets the tone.
NIGHT TWO: THE RETURN
August 23 – UC Theatre, Berkeley
The pieces realign. The sigil reforms.
The Return pulls what broke into strange new order. Echo becomes shape. Death Guild again opens the gate.
Each night stands alone, but together they unlock the full arc. Walk both, or just one—but don’t blink. This won’t happen twice.
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BURN THE NAVIGATOR
From the opening fireworks of "Orange Dev", to the explosive blasts of "Jaywalker", and the jungle calls of the "Dance of Anunnaki"; the reality-defying Itchy-O dares you to let go of all expectations on this incredible debut. Tipsy meets Flat Earth Society from ex-members of Crash Worship and Extra Action Marching Band! No matter what music you like,
LISTEN TO THIS NOW!
FROM THE OVERFLOWING
"From the Overflowing" is the follow-up album to their full-length debut "Burn The Navigator". This sophmore release is charged with the same sonic fury of their live shows delivered by a driving drum corps battery and taiko drummers along side Spaghetti Western guitar licks, snake-charming bass lines, and a rich arsenal of dark electronics including synthesizers, theremin, and vocoders.
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SYPHERLOT & HALLOWMASS
The legedary double-live album recorded during the chaos collective's groundbreaking 2020 drive-in concert series.
Set in an expansive parking lot at Denver's Mission Ballroom in August 2020, SYPHERLOT exploded to life during a time when any/all live music had been sequestered to digital platforms.
HALLOWMASS in October 2020 the spectacle and offertory shook the now-demolished New Tech Machinery building to its foundation during this most hallowed time of year. . As ITCHY-O's tradition entered its sixth year.
SÖM SÂPTÂLAHN
Itchy-O has returned with a double 180gm vinyl record that's their most incredible creation yet!
More than an album—a sonic talisman. A ritual forged in fire, tuned to the stars. A vessel of resonance and transformation.
At its core: custom-built metallophones and gongs, born from 600 pounds of reclaimed bronze in collaboration with the Colorado School of Mines. Each tone, an invocation. Each vibration, a gateway.