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Brainstatik features Stockton, NJ guitarist Robert Burger on guitar and
guitar-synthesizer. Burgers solo project "The Gak Omek" recently released a
second album, The Return of the All-Powerful Light Beings (Fossil Records), a
follow up to the first CD, Alien Eye. Described as a progressive rock
interpretation of ancient and modern mysteries, the Return of the All-Powerful
Light Beings is one of the most imaginative new offerings in the progressive
rock (prog rock) style. Burgers style has been compared to Robert Fripp, Steve
Hackett, David Torn, and Pat Metheny. The new CD takes cerebral music to a new
level by incorporating majestic guitar playing, electronic percussion, and
cosmic synth sounds. The Return of the All-Powerful Light Beings was
voted one of the Top 20 Progressive Rock Albums of 2004 by Progressive
Soundscapes Radio, Sea of Tranquility, Nucleus, and Radio Gnome.
Brainstatik co-founder Ken Palmer, an art director at Bloomberg and resident
of Crosswicks, NJ plays synthesizers and serves as recording engineer for
the band's music. He is the founder and host of the Cosmic Coffeehouse
(www.cosmiccoffeehouse.org), a bi-monthly event in that showcases unique local
musicians. He previously played keyboards and guitar in the bands E. Echo-K and
Liquid Idiot.
Jim Silvestri divides his time between Wood-Ridge & Cape May, NJ has been playing bass for 30 years. His palette includes various fretted and unfretted basses including a Benavente doublenecked 8 string/Fretless. The instruments combined with an efficient effects rack allow Jim to provide a grinding rhythm or a symphonic bottom to suit the various flavors and frequencies of brainstatik. Jim
started his musical career with the classic rock band Rushlight in the mid 70s.
He has also appeared on bass and archtop guitar with The John Michel Orchestra, The Stardreamers, The All
Star Jazz Orchestra and was a founding member of the progressive rock band
Ghosts on the Skyline.Jim's solo composition for MIDI Chapman Stick & Warr Guitar, "No Fanfare For A Fallen King" was released as part of the Yes tribute album, "All Good People" and the "2004 Stickwire Compilation Album".Glenn Robitaille, a resident of Dunellen, NJ plays acoustic and electronic
drums. Glenn's style includes a love for odd time signatures, time changes,
polyrhythms, and the spectrum of sounds available through electronic drums. In
previous lives he played drums for Solar Circus, The Callipygian Blues Band,
and Gangster Clairvoyants.
Mike Hunter of Trenton, NJ plays the 12-string Warr touch guitar and
6-string electric with South Jersey based Irish traditional/Celtic rock group The
Stone Soup Band, as well as his solo ambient drone music under the "Ombient"
moniker. His music has been described as ambient like the random symmetry of
wind chimes, the sound of vehicles moving on some far distant highway, and the
warm hum of high tension power lines.
George Mahlberg lives in the Manayunk area of Philadelphia, PA. When not
installing and training users of editorial publishing systems, he hosts a weekly
radio program, Nocturnal Transmissions, on WPRB-FM 103.3 in Princeton, or can
be found simply sitting under the stars and pondering the vastness of the
Cosmos. A multi-instrumentalist, George performs on a Chapman Stick Bass,
sitar, and Theremin.
Robert J. Burger and Ken Palmer formed Brainstatik in 1995. For the past
eleven years theyve recorded and performed completely improvised and
spontaneously composed instrumental music. Their sound has been influenced by
everything from progressive rock to electronic, to world/ethnic music.
