Video Gum Culture:

Video Gum Culture is creative instrumental music. The band started in 2002 as a composition experiment for Charles Gorczynski and Brian Citro, inspiring regular rehearsals and an increasingly heavy book of music.

The band currated a new music series in the performance space at Chase Cafe in Chicago, weekly building a community of like-minded people. Performing in this space VCG developed strangely sweet melodies, odd feels, emotional and angular music.

A year into the series the cafe closed down, and VCG headed to Soma Electronic Music Studios to record their first record 'Perseverance' with engineer Tim Iseler. After an intense recording, members of the band left the city to tour with other bands, Charles and Brian continued writing in a new context for what would become the improvising and film-scoring collective 'Salamander'.

Perseverance remains a moment in the history for this once highly active Chicago ensemble. It's pure, focused, imaginative energy.

Members:

Nate LePine (Cursive) - tenor sax

Charles Gorczynski (Colorlist, Silences Sumire) - alto sax

Brian Citro (Salamander) - guitar

Harrison Bankhead (Fred Anderson, AACM) - bass

Ernie Adams (Al DiMeola, Stanley Turrentine) - drums

::: audio samples ::: red :::

Discography: Perseverance (ee:o7-003)