Local Film Maker Screening Series + Tom Cintula & The Buffalo 24 + Brenyama + Comic Tales of Tragic Heartbreak @ The Way Station

4pm- Local Film Maker Screening Series:
The Dead Syndicate- Escape of the Archnemesis

1st Screening: 4:15pm
2nd Screening: 4:45pm

The film picks up after the events in the novel Dead Syndicate: Trial of the Archnemesis. Clide, a fallen angel and former agent of Hell has escaped the clutches of the devil and is in search of his son. But he must find the priest who has information on his child. Unfortunately the agents of Hell are on his trail  and he will have to defeat them before he can locate the priest.

Runtime: 15mins

two screenings

8pm- Tom Cintula & The Buffalo 24
Genre: Singer Songwriter/ Acoustic Rock/ POP/ Americana/ Jam
For fans of: John Butler Trio/ Alpha Rev/ Marcus Eaton/ Dave Matthews Band

Tom Cintula & The Buffalo 24 have been playing together in one form or another for the past 12 years. Tom has been playing and writing songs since high school and met his current band members at Wagner College. His music is infused with the sounds of several genres, including rock, pop, funk, folk, R&B, jazz and has some jam band qualities.

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https://twitter.com/TheBuffalo24
http://www.youtube.com/user/Buffalo24Records

9pm- Brenyama
Genre: Rock / Alternative / Indie Pop
For fans of: The Vaselines, Shonen Knife, B-52's,The Ramones, The Beatles
 
Take a musical journey in time in space with Brenyama. Brainchild of Maki and Richard, Brenyama combines classic 60's and 70's rock melody with Synth rock, Chip Tunes, and some bare bones Folk resulting in a uniquely interesting sound.

“Brenyama describe themselves as ‘Ultra Fun Indie Rock Music from NJ and Japan.’ Hailing from New Jersey, Brenyama is a fresh new take on all that is good in Rock ranging from swinging 60′s Brit rock to modern day Indie Rock.” - Jared Thompson (Indie Minded)

www.brenyama.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/brenyama
reverbnation.com/brenyama
 
10pm- Comic Tales of Tragic Heartbreak
"You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.”

So said Sherwood Anderson in his great book, Winesburg, Ohio. Comic Tales of Tragic Heartbreak knows all about accidents. Of birth. Of place and strange times. Of music heard through screen windows in summer, of lonely faces in discos while blizzards raged outside in the Northern night.

What’s a young criminal to do? Read every book he can get his hands on, obsess over record club 45s, play the theme song to MASH over and over on a rented trumpet, lose a thousand fistfights till he finally wins one. Ride a stolen bike, a bus, a train, get out.

Years later, redemption at last. Robert Whaley is just about where he should be. Compared to everyone from David Byrne to Leonard Cohen, he’s been welcoming audiences into a private world of enchantment and debauchery, and oh the influences are clear: Anderson (words and emotions), Fossee (dance and controlled hysteria), poetry (Artaud and O’Hara).

Whaley had a lot of practice riding the line between rock n’ roll, performance art, and stand up comedy as the front man for The Niagaras, a legendary force of Manhattan’s live music scene of 80s and 90s, when a wild front man could dance on bar tops and swing from the rafters without getting banned, except for when he was:

“Lunacy? Spectacle? And music too??”- Rene Chun, New York Times

No wonder the attraction included a “celebrity” following – everyone from Ethan Hawke to Kevin Spacey to Gwyneth Paltrow to the good people in Anthrax.

As a songwriter, Whaley has covered a lot of ground and has shown range through a number of outlets. He cowrote and recorded the original score for the feature film, Joe the King, starring Val Kilmer, and has also written for the stage –his rock musical Wrong Way Up ran off-Broadway at NYC’s Zipper Theater. He is currently working with playwright Matthew Freeman on a musical adaptation of the great 1908 novel, Buried Alive – now titled Selling Sacred Objects.

Meat Market Lullaby, the second album from Comic Tales of Tragic Heartbreak, reflects an obsession with pre-1974 soul, filled with nuance and tender bitter sweetness. Jazz pianist Mara Rosenbloom sets the tone with her loose/attacking, touch on grand piano and Rhodes. Pete O’Connell lends a sophisticated sense of drive and counterpoint as both bassist and co-arranger. Whaley’s long-time collaborator, lead guitarist and singer, Tony Grimaldi, shines with masterful harmonies and chunky guitar lines. Chris Schultz, percussionist with Blue Man Group, shimmers, cascades and of course, rocks.

Recorded live in the studio with a minimum of overdubs, a maximum of misfit charm, and this: “Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.” (Sherwood Anderson, again.)

www.comictalesoftragicheartbreak.com