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EROShambo last performance and cast party
Saturday Dec. 14
9:30pm
$10-15
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If you've been meaning to come to OmniCircus to see the
EROShambo erotic robotic cabaret, NOW'S the time!! After a 9 month
run, EROShambo is closing!! AND we're having a BLOWOUT final
show and cast party, and you're invited!!
Junkyard fusion ensemble DeusMachina is performing EROShambo -
a robotic erotic ritual exploring some of our cultural Weapons of Mass
Distraction: sex, money and religion. The action in EROShambo takes
place in the RUSTY LADY, a surreal, robotic strip joint located in the
dark undermind of our urban landscape.
DeusMachina features the twisted, mournfully surreal songs and
vocals of Frank Garvey (Jamboree Ralph), with Angela Brown (Dark
Orchid), Geoffrey Pond (King Ubu), Stuart Hall (Happy Jack), Adrian
Herbez, Cynthia Weyuker, Genevieve Guertin, and Lisa Thomas, with
lighting by Harry Roche. This is a band with an experimental mindset,
a mysterious presence, and an original fusion of rock, rap, and
industrial-surrealist performance.
The group includes the ROBOTIC ENSEMBLE of the OmniCircus, with
HUMPER the robotic hooker, GOBOY the mechanical beggar,
GODFELLA the robotic streetpreacher and PLOWGIRL. the
mechanical junkie. EROShambo also features a cast of
digitally-animated live puppets (VIRpts) including the WHOLE DAMN
FAMILY and HIBOY. The action of EROShambo takes place in the
RUSTY LADY, a dream-like strip club from the dark undermind of the
urban nightscape. WARNING - THIS IS NOT A SIMULATION!!! You'll
never look your vacuum cleaner in the face again!!
Here's what reviewers are saying about EROShambo and
DeusMachina:
�
�Ever see a strung-out stripper dance with a robot? Think Ally Sheedy
in�the movie "Short Circuit" but now trap her in a dark
drug-induced�robotic cabaret and remove her top. If that's what you
see, you're�probably attending a performance of EROShambo at the
OmniCircus-a surrealistic�gallery and performance space for actors,
painters, sculptors,�musicians, virtual reality animators and robot
creators. Walt Disney created the happiest place on earth. Frank
Garvey, the�director of OmniCircus, didn't. Unlike the well preserved
dignitaries in�Disney World's Hall of Presidents, the animatronics from
Garvey's team�look more like decaying bodies. Part theater. Part aural
nightmare. Part robotics demonstration. Part strip show. Just walk into
OmniCircus and you've entered a nightmarish�robotic red-light district.
Turn left to meet "Humper," the robotic�whore fully equipped with a
20,000 volt stun gun right where it counts.�Avoid "Plowgirl," the junkie
and "Goboy," the panhandler who often�leaves the confines of the
gallery to bother attendees of the San�Francisco Opera...��
-David Spark,�for T3 Tech Magazine
http://www.davidspark.com
"... a mesmerizing experience...(it) comes together to create a
surrealistic and unclassifiable sound-narrative. But most importantly,
it works like a charm. DeusMachina's House of the Deafman is the
kind of record you put on when you want to enter a totally different
world, regardless of your affinities with avant-garde or world music;
the kind of record you cherish, simply because it can be compared to
nothing else."
-Francois Couture, All-Music Guide
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Asvm1z85a3yv6
"The music conjures up all its magical might and embraces you in a
dream that elevates you into a surreal sensual sensitivity. ..Layers of
musical, historical, cultural styles shift like breaking ice in spring, and
you see right through the transparency of vast epochs. Magnificent!
Inspiring! Like nothing I�ve heard!
-Sonoloco Music Reviews:
http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco9/innova/deafman.html
�There are whispers, chants, echoes, voices that seem to materialize
out of the shadows and dissipate into the mist. Disturbed and
disturbing. Chilling. Rich in aural imagery. Place yourself in a dimly
candle-lit room, drink enough to cross over from euphoria to despair,
and listen to this dark, haunting sonic journey through an anguished
mind. And when it's over, House of the Deafman lingers like the
nightmare that wakes you in the dim pre-dawn hours. The sinister
robotic 'puppet show' of the OmniCircus is as unsettling as the Lady in
the Radiator from David Lynch's Eraserhead. And I mean that as both
an endorsement and a caution. It is evocative and memorable.
Garvey's CD is a remarkable realization both of his troubling artistic
vision and of the capabilities of audio-visual media. This is deeply
creepy, and highly recommended.�
-James A. Gardner, All-Music Guide
CHECK OUT http://www.omnicircus.com for more reviews and info on
this amazing ensemble!
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OmniCircus
550 Natoma St.
San Francisco
415.701-0686
http://www.omnicircus.com
The OmniCircus is located at 550 Natoma Street, between Mission
and Howard and 6th and 7th Streets, in San Francisco's South of
Market (SoMa) district. The door is on Russ Street. We recommend
parking in the lot between 6th & 7th St. on Mission, then walking up 7th
to Minna St., then left to Russ & Natoma.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
415.701-0686
http://www.omnicircus.com
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