Expanding Pegasus

We’re happy to announce that most of our catalog is available for listening and download over at our Bandcamp page. You can listen to albums in their entirety, and if you like what you hear, purchase an album for any amount. That’s right, you get to name the price. Pretty nice of us, huh?

It seems its that time of year again. When our homely outpost drops two albums

simultaneously into the world. This time around it will be the aforementioned

R. Scott Oliver’s Hymns for the Fall,

and Freeman/Lake’s Threading Needles in Mid-Air.

There will be a free double album release show, on Friday, January 7th,

at the Boulder Coffee at Brooks Landing (955 Genesee St.) in Rochester NY. 8-11pm.

(Go HERE for the Facebook invite.) Both bands will perform, as well as the

esteemed masters of sludge-drone rock:

Crush the Junta.

You are invited, encouraged, exhorted.

Threading Needles in Mid-Air, the new album from Freeman/Lake, is out now. It’s a collection of drum/guitar improvisations that is surprisingly cohesive and beautiful. You can listen to a track and read more about the release HERE.

Very happy to announce Expanding Pegasus 004: R. Scott Oliver’s Hymns For The Fall. I won’t give too much away just yet, other than to say that R. Scott Oliver has recorded a study in beauty and simplicity. Focused guitar tones, drones, and melodies intertwine to create a cleansing break from all the sonic abuse out there. Expect a release later this month.

Very excited to announce Pegacide’s Cosmic Forest is now available! Spanning 52 minutes of entirely

improvised magic, Cosmic Forest is a beautiful, crushing blow from a well-known Rochester secret.

Check out album art and listen to the track “Quasar Pulse” here.

The Label Launch went extremely well this past saturday, thanks to lots of friends family, and strangers who showed up and made a night out of it. Drum sets were hit, guitars strummed and fiddled with, and many a knob twiddled. Stories and Statistics performed live for the first time, and a large ensemble helped bring Whoomsical Proclamation to life. If you weren’t there, have a look at some of the photos, and listen to the album’s on their pages. Pegasus launched.

Our label launch show got a nice, thoughtful write up in CITY Newspaper today. Click here to read the full article, or just read the excerpts from music writer Frank De Blase:

“Just like jazzers floating in an arbitrary quest, searching for those un-played notes, those un-visited patterns, Tom Lake finds – and to some extent re-creates – unlikely sounds and textures, marries them to one another, and successfully pushes the sonic choices musicians have to choose from to infinity.”

Yikes! This guy is in my brain. But he doesn’t stop there.

“The same thing could be said for Stories and Statistics (Brandon Herford) with its incantations and strum. Both projects, though electronically rooted, incorporate organic tones and instruments, perhaps to remind the listener there is still flesh and blood in there and behind the music.”

There is also a description of Stories and Statistic’s music involving a large burrito, which I will let you discover for yourself.

The Label launch show is this Saturday, January 2nd, at Boulder Coffee (955 Genesee St. Roch. Ny) 7pm. And it’s free! See below post for more info.

Our little outpost of music and sound will officially be opening it’s doors to the universe on Saturday, January 2nd, 2010!

To commorate this event, we will be releasing our first two children (also known as albums) into the world: Tom Lake’s Whoomsical Proclamation, and Story and Statistic’s Dean and Thodi.

You will be able to see these two records be performed in their entirety, at our label launch party at the Boulder Coffee at Brooks Landing (955 Genesee St. Roch. NY) on Saturday January 2nd, at 7pm

(For the sake of full disclosure, I should tell you, that this Tom Lake, is me. This is not only honest of me, but lets me speak about my music without falling awkwardly into the third person.)

Now that I got that off my chest, onto the music! I will performing Whoomsical Proclamation alongside the large cast which made the record possible in the first place. I will joined by my wife Corinna Lake (on vocals), my brothers John and Pete Lake (on bass/drums and electronics), and two other sets of brothers: Phillip and Brandon Herford (electric guitar and tape deck), and Didrik and Henrik Soderstrom (vocals and acoustic guitar). (side note: I didn’t plan the dude-fest-brother theme, it just kind of happened.)

Brandon Herford, the man behind the Stories and Statistics moniker, will be performing songs from his 16 minute sci-fi mini epic Dean and Thodi alongside some possible mysterious guest musicians.

This entire event is free and all-ages. We will have records for sale and Boulder will have coffee and beer, among other things. Feel free to invite folks. Its going to be whoomsical.

Welcome everybody. This is the first incarnation of Expanding Pegasus online, and represents a few years of dreaming, dragging my feet, and more dreaming. Finally. I am here.

This is going to be home to some music that I have been wanting to share with people for a while. I have been very lucky to know some amazing musicians here in the Rochester, NY area, and this is going to be my way of sharing, (and expanding the range of) their sounds.

Feel free to check out the artist pages, and check back soon, as we prepare for our official label launch with Stories and Statistic’s Dean & Thodi, Tom Lake’s Whoomsical Proclomation, and Pegacide’s latest, soon-to-be-titled, slab of sound.

-Tom