StoneFloat

Saturday, April 2, 2005

Into every vacuum a whorl will whirl and StoneFloat is proud to stake its claim as originators in the emerging new now that is Rock and Fire Flowpoetry.

Imagine a band that is flexible enough to flow, with all original songs, from spoken word jazz into an acoustic cowboy duets into a reggae rock and finally into a full-on blues tinged rock ensemble. The times we live in demand a vigorous response and Madison, WI based StoneFloat provides just that by playing soulful rock and roll songs connected with poetry that keeps the music flowing from one song into the next. The result is at times aggressive, at other times spacey and dreamy and always entertaining. StoneFloat explodes genre by foggily blending sludge rock, dustygritty guitars, funk-a-fried bass, and flowpoetry puddled over double clutched drum beats. This is all mixed in with a dose of twang and soul vocals, electrically and acoustically performed.

StoneFloat features Tate McLane on guitar and vocals (hailed by South Central Wisconsin's leading music newspaper as having a voice both 'raw and true'), KC McCrum on lead guitar, Bear LaValley on bass, Dave Brehmer on percussion, and Madison Area Music Award Best Artist Finalist Adam Gregory Pergament adding the spoken word. All members of StoneFloat are entirely professional and dedicated to songcraft. Within the space of this moment a new moment is born.