Gashoagie was a collaboration between Mike Bancroft and Jeremy Scidmore that aimed to document the landscape of the USA past the interstate’s strip mall sprawl. 

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Panic Attack

This is a track that was the first in the Gashoagie epic. It features synths and instrumentation derived entirely from the gritty audio collected by a video cameras on-board microphone. The original score for this work was created for surround sound.

 

Ghost Ride

Ghost Ride is the second track in the Gashoagie epic that was filmed at the Holy Ghost Grotto in Iowa, a motel in New Mexico, and San Fillipo’s Dead Pals in Wisconsin. It also features synths and instrumentation derived entirely from the gritty audio collected by a video cameras on-board microphone. The original score for this work was created for surround sound.

 

Ice Princess

Track 3 of this epic music video with footage from Fred Smith’s Sculpture Park in Phillips Wisconsin, A Buckminster Fuller Motel in Michigan, Reed State Park in Maine, and you can’t forget Graceland Tennessee. It features synths and instrumentation derived entirely from the gritty audio collected by a video cameras on-board microphone. 

 

Search and Seizure

This is another excerpt that was in the Gashoagie epic collected with binaural mics in Arkansas as Jeremy was being interogated by the Ark State Troopers. It features synths and instrumentation derived entirely from the gritty audio collected by a video cameras on-board microphone. 

 

Doctor Evermore

An interview with Doctor Evermore one of Mike Bancroft’s personal idols. The clown is from the House on The Rock and the birds are from San Fillipos Dead Pals. 

 

House on the Rock

This is another track that was the in the Gashoagie epic filmed at House on the Rock. It features synths and instrumentation derived entirely from the gritty audio collected by a video cameras on-board microphone. The original score for this work was created for surround sound.

 

Betta Bones & Gardens

Betta Bones is shot and recorded on site at the: Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco; Mann’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood; Doctor Evermore’s in Baraboo Wisconsin, and Betta Bones and Garden outside of Albuquerque New Mexico. It features synths and instrumentation derived entirely from the gritty audio collected by a video cameras on-board microphone.

 

Golden Palace

This is another track that was the in the Gashoagie epic filmed at the Golden Palace in West Virginia and narrated by Mike B. It features synths and instrumentation derived entirely from the gritty audio collected by a video cameras on-board microphone.