Program

Ty Citerman - guitar Adam D Gold - drums Eric Rockwin - bass Ken Thomson -saxophone

Destroying walls between art-rock, avant-squonk, and mathed-out prog, Gutbucket's
through-composed charts enter a place of pure sound. The decade-old New York
quartet is not only equally comfortable playing in front of 900 sweatily pogo-ing
teenage skate-punks, a crowd of cosmic indie-psych freaks, or on an anarchist
German art collective houseboat, but most importantly, their music fits right in. Called
"stomprovisors" by the Village Voice, the band has spent the past 10 years injecting a
shot of glorious spazmitude into the minimalist cool of the New York downtown scene.
The group attacks their music with the ferocity usually reserved for punk, and the
humorous abstraction of art-rock, despite having earned their jazz bona fides. Though
the band might seem rooted in the genre exploding of New Yorkʼs downtown (their
2001 debut, InsomniacsDream, was released on the Knitting Factory house imprint),
their shift to louder sounds began with their controversially titled Dry Humping the
American Dream (released in 2003 in Europe on the legendary Enja label and
domestically in 2004 on Bang on a Can's acclaimed Cantaloupe label).

gutbucket formed in the spring of 1999 in NYC. we:

began touring the east coast over the next few years - friends from DC, Boston, etc. joined the parade.

dressed up as muppets, played glow-in-the-dark and blindfolded, threw toast at the audience, tossed giant beach balls...

released debut CD InsomniacsDream on Knitting Factory Records in 2001.

went to germany in winter 2001, ate 17 varieties of prepared pork, began touring europe several times a year, made up lots of fake german words.

released Dry Humping the American Dream on Enja in 2003 and Cantaloupe in 2004.

drove 12,000 miles coast-to-coast in spring of 2005 - friends new and old everywhere helped nurture us along the way - thank you!

the malarkey continued with third CD (and LP too, you analog-heads) SLUDGE TEST that hit in 2006 .... we've been on the road since then following that release - running full-tilt across the US and Europe...

said a sad but friendly farewell to founding drummer Paul Chuffo...welcomed fantastic new drummer Adam D Gold into the fold...ran around the US some more...played loudly with an orchestra at Carnegie Hall...released a DVD of European concerts on the MS Stubnitz (check that boat out!).

wrote tons of new music, road-tested and (ahem) refined it...went into the studio to record our fourth CD (and yes, LP too) A MODEST PROPOSAL that will hit in January 2009 (but is available online NOW). we're still going...will do CD release shows in the US and Europe in early 2009 - see you then!

Jakob Thorkild, Bjoern Heeboell