In September of 2000, Mark Galasso collaborated with his brother, Violinist/Composer Michael Galasso, on music recorded for the Armani Retrospective. This was the first sound installation in the New York Guggenheim’s history.
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Antifluff Superstar was composed & recorded during a period of unprecedented self-growth. All of the material was conceived, recorded & mixed without any constrictions regarding when the music was documented as a musical expression. This creates a spontaneity and freshness not easily duplicated in the recording studio.
“OFFBEAT”, New Orleans’ premier music magazine wrote:
“Mark Galasso who gifted us with some of the best modern Louisiana pop around on 1997’s PERCHAPLECTIC, returns with a new persona as Antifluff Superstar, completing his studio-perfectionistic control-freak journey full circle. He’s even starting to sound like other wizards and true stars: his funk is becoming positively Princely, his twisted classicism Rundgrenian, his confessionality Lennonesque. The title track dips and weaves between three decades of damaged art-pop like a drunk on a binge. Just when he seems unfathomable, he polishes off a Beatlesque gem (“Jin’s Jet”), rips out a solid groove (“Stuck Here Without You”), or takes the piss out of his ambition by re-working one his commercial jingles (“Bonus Lucky 7″) and all is well. Mark’s colossally, wonderfully self-obsessed. The sheer audacity and frightening intensity of his ambition is absolutely thrilling. In a state that forgot how to make solid, non-derivative pop music a few decades ago, that’s to be celebrated.”
Mark Galasso-a.k.a “Antifluff Superstar”-has been recognized Nationally and Internationally for nine spectacular radio jingles he has written for the Louisiana Lottery Corporation. In 1999, “Pick 4” won “Best Radio Spot” at the North American Lottery Awards in Halifax, Nova Scotia. “Bonus Lucky 7” & a Gambline Hotline Tv Spot were also finalists in the competition, which involved 49 lottery companies from all over North America. Additionally, his Jingles “Mambo Money” & “Let the Good Times Roll” won Audio Communicator Awards in 2001, and “Mambo Money” was given the “Crystal Award for Excellence”.
(See: “Lottery Jingles” also available on CD Baby, iTunes & many PC download sites)
For further information about Antifluff Superstar please visit:
www.markgalasso.net
ANTIFLUFF SUPERSTAR is also available for Digital Download on the following sites:
In 1999, Mark Galasso singed on with Labrador Records in England where Perchaplectic was the featured CD on Audiostreet.com who called the CD, “a stunning eclectic collection of 17 songs”.
“Pick 4” the first cut on the Lottery Jingles CD won BEST RADIO SPOT (out of 47 Professional Lottery Companies) at the NORTH AMERICAN LOTTERY AWARDS, in Halifax Nova Scotia, 1999. There were 47 Lottery companies at the competition, from all over North America.
This composition was commissioned by Sam Brocato and Brocato International for their 1998 appearance at the “ALTERNATIVE HAIR SHOW”, at the ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON.
Every year a video of the show is made and distributed throughout the world wide hair industry.
The “Alternative Hair Show” is one of the biggest Leukaemia fund raisers in the world.
In 1999, Mark Galasso singed on with Labrador Records in England where 