This Way to the EGRESS cascades onto the stage in a breathtaking explosion of sound and color that’s equal parts unruly vaudeville, ebullient world beat band and three ring circus. The six-person troupe plays a swooning, crooning, swinging amalgamation of styles that catapults the audience through time and space with unexpected shifts of styles, costumes and time signatures. Confetti snowstorms, tuba farts, Balinese chanting, fire wielding evangelists,  and puppets sweep across the stage creating a jubilant, anything goes atmosphere, anchored by the band’s superlative songwriting skills and sterling musicianship. Accordion, violin and tuba aren’t instruments you usually find fronting a rock band, but This Way to the EGRESS uses them to give the music unexpected textures, while retaining a propulsive beat and generating enough energy to light up a small city.

“We always have a hard time figuring out what genre we fit into,” says Taylor Galassi, the accordion wielding bon vivant who founded EGRESS, with the help of his partner, piano plunker, fiddler and leading lady Sarah Shown. “We’re surfing on a hard-hitting wave of many colors. Gypsy, punk, ska, ragtime, Klezmer, blues and Balkan beats all wrapped up into one crazy foot stomping good time. We let the music take us where it will, regardless of genres and geography.”


The Dimension is a band whose concept began in the mid 90's as a reaction to the grunge movement by founding member Eric Lorback.  Eric Lorback, Craig Brunette, and Bryan DeBaun was the first lineup in 2004-2005, and then the band (The)Electric Dream was formed in 2015-2017 as Eric Lorback, Nicholle Post, and TJ Dodson. The Dimension now operates as a solo project of Eric Lorback, who writes, produces, and plays all instruments.

Reflection on reflection
laser deflection
scattered hues straining against
separation
Pile driver pounding roots deep
compacting sensibility
Many-legged magpies run amok collecting and infecting
lateral motion meaningless and disturbing
Thankless offerings and ribbon and twine and luster and
mind
worth its weight in silence
anechoic rubrics, hubris tides
swinging cosine riddles and rhymes
The invisible general of the ride, behind cumulus nimble
apprehension thrives

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