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AUDIOCRACY is an international collaborative progressive rock band founded by keyboardist/composer Tobin Mueller. Their poetic writing and virtuosic performances make their music a life-affirming and emotionally uplifting experience, even amidst the serious content. Revolution's Son has been called "a masterpiece in the Epic Prog tradition."

Audiocracy combines fabulous keyboards (B3 organ, retro synths, electric pianos), excellent guitar work (three, all marvelous), and dense vocal harmonies. Intricate passages give way to a uniting synergy of power and vision. The guitar is always melodic, from the lightening fast licks to subtle padded overtones. Vocals are reminiscent of early Yes, scored like orchestral parts, innovative and soaring. The drumming is strong and inventive, rarely taking a back seat. Each song is a story unto itself, yet the whole is greater than the parts. Influences from fusion to jazz to classical to musical theatre coalesce within the living, ever-changing genre of neo-progressive rock.

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AUDIOCRACY: Revolution's Son

Revolution's Son is a concept album created by the International Collaborative Project AUDIOCRACY.
Their first CD, "Revolution's Son," is a concept album that follows the life of a revolutionary who comes to The City to be a catalyst for change and a prophet of truth. He falls into an Underground that urges a less innocent approach to change, leading to the execution of many and a post-apocalyptic finish. The lyrics are an impressionistic journey of a young man trying to find his way through expectation, arrogance, betrayal, disillusionment and, finally, re-birth.

Band members: Tobin Mueller (Rain Bather, 13 Masks), Twon (Invanity, M-Lab), Bob Piper (Plaeides), Darren Chapman (Out of the Blue), Rob Thurman (Navigator) and Tadashi Togawa. Read more about them below.



REVOLUTION'S SON:

Part I - The Dream:  Revolution's Son
Part II - The Hope:  Puzzle City
Part III - The Underground:  Escape into The Fray Zone
Part IV - The Confrontation:  Speak Truth To Power
Part V - The Extinction:  Gethsemane Again
Part VI - The Survivors:  When The Future Comes
Part VII - The Re-Emergence:  Dare To Sing

1. Revolution's Son
Lead vocals, basses: Twøn
Vocals, organ, synths, drums: Tobin
Guitars: Darren Chapman
Vocal Engineering:  Al Ligammari
Music & lyrics: Tobin

2. Puzzle City
Guitars: Bob Piper
Vocals, organ, synths, Trilogy fretless bass: Tobin
Vocals: Twøn
Drums: Scott Rockenfield, programmed by Tobin
Guitar Engineering:  Al Ligammari
Music: Bob/Tobin; Lyrics: Tobin

3. Escape into The Fray Zone
Guitars: Darren Chapman
Vocals: Twøn
Vocals, organ, synths, piano, drum programming: Tobin
Music & lyrics: Tobin

4. Speak Truth To Power
Guitars:  Darren Chapman
Vocals, bass: Twøn
Vocals, organ, synths, drums: Tobin
Engineering:  Al Ligammari
Music & lyrics: Tobin/Twøn

5. Gethsemane Again
Lead vocals, organ, synths, Trilogy fretless bass, guitars, percussion: Tobin
Vocals: Twøn
Music & lyrics: Tobin

6. When The Future Comes
Guitars, guitar synths:  Bob Piper
Vocals, acoustic guitar: Twøn
Vocals, organ, synths, backwards drum programming: Tobin
Drums: Rob Thurman
Bass: Will Schwark
Engineering:  Al Ligammari
Music & lyrics: Tobin

7. Dare To Sing
Lead vocals, acoustic guitars, bass: Twøn
Vocals, organ, synths, percussion: Tobin
Electric Guitars:  Tadashi Togawa and Darren Chapman
Music & lyrics: Tobin/Twøn


For CD ordering information, see: Audiocracy on The Lost Records.
To listen to draft mixes of sample tracks, see: Audiocracy on ReverbNation and Audiocracy on MySpace.
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Band Members...
Membership in AUDIOCRACY is fluid. Band founder Tobin Mueller is the only sure constant. He collaborates with friends around the globe to create Audiocracy's unique sound:

TOBIN MUELLER:
Composition, lyrics, B3 organ, synths, piano, percussion, vocals. Tobin is a Dramatist Guild playwright and an ASCAP composer of everything from symphonies to jazz to film scores. Worked with Dave Brubeck, Maynard Ferguson, Entcho Todorov, Donny McCaslin, Ken Schaphorst and others, from jazz to classical to progressive rock. Tobin has released a series of original solo piano recordings displaying astounding compositional and performance skills: 13 Masks and Morning Whispers, available through Simig Media. His other TLR releases includes A Bit Of Light, a solo progressive folk fusion album that defies genre.

TWØN:
Lyrics, lead vocalist, Olympic 5-string bass, acoustic guitar. Twøn is lead singer and lyricist with the New York City progressive rock band Invanity. He was a founding member of M-Lab, the bassist and backing vocalist for their first two CDs: "M-LAB" (debut recording) and "From Baser Metals" as well as their current 4 track EP. In the 1990's, Twøn was lead vocalist and main songwriter for The New York City Crack Team. He was also in over 80 musicals as a theatrical performer. He's Tobin's eldest son.

BOB PIPER:
Composition, guitars. Performing for over 35 years, his most successful project overall was the band Pleaides. Their premier release "A Moment Of Clarity" was revered as ground-breaking, and is still a masterpiece to this day, timeless. Bob has also scored for motion pictures, using an EBow for a most dramatic effect a soundtrack can have.

DARREN CHAPMAN:
Electric guitars. Performed with the group Out Of The Blue in the early 1990s and an Alice In Chains Tribute Band in the late 90's. Hails from Ontario, Canada, where he currently plays with two other bands and teaches guitar.

ROB THURMAN:
Drums. Rob Thurman studied with legendary Buffalo Jazz drummer Louis Marino (Tommy Dorsey). In 1986 he was playing with the band Real Eyes. In 1990, he and his brothers formed the Thurman Brothers band and toured up and down the east coast until '97. Rob joined the Genesis tribute band “Seconds Out” in early 1998, and that summer formed his all original progressive rock band Navigator. He tours with the Rick Alviti show band, the country's leading Elvis Presley tribute artist.

TADASHI TOGAWA:
Electric & acoustic guitars. A renown guitarist from Japan, his influence can be felt in a long line of students and disciples that continue to call him Master.
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Audiocracy II...
Ever since I first listened to Yes, I have been enthralled with progressive rock. My association with The Lost Records inspired me to put a group together. Using the Internet, I've ararnged to collaborate with players from around the world. We are putting tracks together piece by piece, a whole different way to record, but it's been very rewarding: the music is great.

All the song for the first album have been written. Finishing the tracks has been a challange. You can hear some of our drafts and demos on Audiocracy's ArtsForge page or on Audiocracy's MySpace page. I've used some of the tracks (the less prgressive rock tracks) on A Bit Of Light, shaping just the more political and post-political songs for the upcoming Audiocracy release.

I've already collaborating with Scott Carmichael and Steph Vanstiphouton Audiocracy II, but that's at least 2 years off. But it shows the enthusiasm I have for this project.

• Audiocracy on ReverbNation
• Audiocracy on MySpace
• Audiocracy on ArtsForge
A Bit Of Light / Alternative tracks...
13 Masks
Some of the tracks originally slated for Audiocracy I ended up on Tobin's solo album A Bit Of Light. They didn't fit tightly enough into the concept of the Revolution's Son storyline and musically made more sense under the "progressive folk fusion" sound created for that album.

For more details, see Tobin Mueller's Recordings...

• A Bit Of Light on CDBaby
• A Bit Of Light on iTunes
• A Bit Of Light on The Lost Records