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""Robson, Sax and Garritt" was born in 1997 as an outlet for the home studio explorations of Syd Sax<br />
(born in Naples, 19th july 1980) into psychedelic, experimental and progressive music.<br />
In fact Syd had already been making music for several years prior to this and was a musically precocious<br />
teenager who taught himself to play guitar and keyboards.<br />
His early tape releases with band of Five Points had already become known in the musical underground.<br />
In 1995 Syd started the project that would take him into the professional music world.<br />
An art-rock trio Eclipse formed with keyboard player Jule Robson and the keyboard and bass player<br />
Louis Garritt. But the project began life almost as a joke between three friends.<br />
Syd and his friend Louis developed an almost entirely fictional history of a legendary seventies group<br />
complete with non-existent band members and an absurd discography - this was "Robson, Sax & Garritt".<br />
To back up the story Jule, Louis & Syd recorded several hours worth of music supposedly<br />
by this imaginary band.<br />
This was ultimately to take another 24 months or so to come to fruition and in the meantime Syd began<br />
to distribute RS&G's music in the form of "Echoes demos" and it's follow up "Are your ears ok?",<br />
both complete with booklets containing the imaginary history and other misleading information.<br />
These tapes built up an underground interest in the name which was added to by the eventual release<br />
of the newly named "Sax Records" record label's first compilation album "Pizza Attack" which featured<br />
the Robson, Sax & Garritt's track "Xalerazzip". Sax Records also reissued the first 2 RS&G tapes.<br />
Shortly afterwards Syd was invited by the new label to be one of the first artists to sign to the<br />
Tordycore label.<br />
The original invitation was to reissue both the tapes as double albums, but Syd decided instead to compile<br />
the best material onto one album which became "PizzAttack", the 1st release on the new label. <br />
"PizzAttack" was issued in early 1996 in a small run of 100 copies in a deluxe squallid plastic sleeve.<br />
Such was the interest from the press and public that this small run sold out almost immediately and was<br />
repressed along with a CD version. Among other tracks the album contained a future RS&G classic and<br />
frequent concert encore in "Pizza Relax". By 2000 "PizzAttack" had racked up sales of 296 copies.<br />
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As the first Robson, Sax & Garritt album had been very much a self indulgent and in some ways nostalgic look<br />
back at trio's favourite music from the 60's and 70's they felt in order to take the project forward it was important<br />
to develop the sound into new and more contemporary areas. The first fruits of these new sessions was a 46<br />
minute single that fused the Brain (then the biggest thing in music) and sperimental music, all strung together<br />
with a narrative taken from ancient animal legends.<br />
It was a major underground hit, reaching the European independent Top 50 and a perfect representation<br />
of how the dissolution of boundaries between genres characterised the best music of the nineties.<br />
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In fact "Eruption" was a track recorded for another prospective RS&G album "Rattus (The Strones of years)".<br />
However, when the album eventually emerged in mid 1998 the decision not to include the single had slimmed<br />
down the album to a single record. "Rattus (The Strones of years)" was greeted with rapture, Melody Maker <br />
describing it as "a psychedelic masterpiece.... one of the albums of the year".<br />
The album continued the fusion of pop and rock and also featured guest appearances from two future and past<br />
RS&G David Gideon (ex Five Points - singer and flute player) and the guitar player Frank Goodheart.<br />
All two members of the group had worked with Jule, Louis & Syd on various projects over the preceding years<br />
and all were excellent musicians sympathetic to the sound and direction of RS&G. <br />
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New music was already underway. The next album would not emerge until mid 1999, but was preceded<br />
by the classic single "Rattus Inferno / Vision and voice of angels". The subsequent album "The return of the Rattus"<br />
was as expansive soundscape of melody and ambient rock experimentation, but would prove to be a transitional<br />
work with half recorded before the formation of the band and half recorded after.<br />
Most of the album was taken up with the 90 minute title track, which at one point Syd intended to be long enough<br />
to occupy the whole album ! It also entered European Week charts.<br />
This album became the first RS&G music to be issued in America in the autumn of 1999 and attracted very<br />
favourable press on both sides of the Atlantic. The band supported the album with numerous gigs throughout<br />
the year at major venues in Italy. <br />
Partly unsatisfied with the half band/half solo nature of "Rattus (The Strones of years)", RS&G promptly<br />
got down to the task of recording the first proper band record and worked sporadically over the next year on<br />
developing a tighter and more ambitious rock sound.<br />
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In 1999 the RS&G's first ever line-up change occurred when Frank Goodheart join the band in full time.<br />
The time spent looking for a record deal had not been wasted and only a few months after the release of<br />
"The return of the Rattus" the band were ready to begin work on a follow up, recorded during the transition<br />
into the new millennium and completed in 2000. May 2000 saw the release of the first fruits of these sessions,<br />
the single "Tarantelle Blues" which entered all European charts and the US National chart attracting airplay<br />
all over Europe. The new line up had an immediate chemistry as illustrated by the "Pite (Tales of an<br />
australopitecantropicus REX)" album (issued on vinyl only in 2001) which contained recordings from their<br />
first ever 2 performances, including a Green Light Station Radio session. Sessions took place in Australia.<br />
The band went on to complete a highly successful European tour. The band ended 2001 with a sold out show<br />
at the Capaldo in Naples.<br />
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Expected to be their most accomplished and expansive work to date, the album is scheduled for 2003 release."^^xsd:string
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