Experimental Group Random Touch Releases New CD/DVD

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New Music For The Mind By Experimental Group Random Touch

3/18/07 - Algonquin, IL - "When we play it's like entering a trance. Visual elements and even drama materialize of their own accord, as if I've fallen into a waking dream. At times I have no conscious awareness that we are making music." - prophetic words from Christopher Brown of experimental music troupe Random Touch. The band are preparing for the release of their innovative new CD/DVD package entitled Alchemy.

Everyone finds comfort in categories. Stringing together a list of musical styles or genres - say modern classical, free jazz and acid rock - provides a general basis for discussion and understanding. Most music is created around a structure that is a direct descendent of one or more such musical styles. With Random Touch , however, structure is sourced internally, so that the unconscious takes center stage. The result is a dreamy, hypnotic, and otherworldly sort of music that seems to float, free of gravity, continuously on the verge of cohesion and collapse.

"This is demanding and intriguing music with some overtly jazz touches to balance out the really far out experimental stuff. Though not for the faint hearted, it's one surreal musical journey well worth taking!" - Acid Dragon

Random Touch founders Christopher Brown (drums) and James Day (keyboards) have an old and synergistic relationship that began with collaborations in high school (an original rock opera) and college (commissioned multi-media piece "Broken Glass" among others). Brown and Day first collaborated with member Scott Hamill (guitar) in 1978 and member Matthew Ebbin (camera) in 1998. In addition to music, the visual arts have been an integral part of their work over the years. The eclectic ensemble's previous releases Hammering On Moonlight, A Parade Of Dusty Hobos, The You Tomorrow (CD/DVD) and The Elegance Of Falling have received consistent praise from fans and critics worldwide, setting the standard for the band's new offering.

On March 20, 2007 Random Touch's seventh CD (and second DVD) Alchemy will be released on the band's private label Token Boy Records. Cinematic, emotionally charged music fuels the all too short 68-minute CD. Echoes of Pink Floyd, Zappa, Can and early Tangerine Dream resonate throughout Random Touch's Alchemy as it takes the listener on an emotional journey through uncharted musical territory. "Perhaps Frank Zappa might have made such music if he were alive today. At any rate, Edgar Varese would certainly have listened intently and been thoroughly changed by what he heard," touts Ragazzi magazine.

Haunting, dreamlike music videos, live performances and talking heads inhabit the 2-hour DVD. As with The You Tomorrow, several of the video shorts from the Alchemy DVD are screening at film and video festivals.

Random Touch's Alchemy is music for the mind, body and soul - the listener plugs in and the music takes control?

"The music is not safe or packaged. You can't dance to it. It's meditative, disturbing and challenging, like a dream you might want to escape at any minute." - DRUM!

For more information on Random Touch:
www.randomtouch.com
Token Boy Records
P.O. Box 7412
Algonquin, IL 60102

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