FUTURE ROOM RECORDS

STAVO MUSTANG CRAFT is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist who merges story, music & illustration to explore the nature of personal reality and our ability to self-invent & build illuminated futures. Maker of concept-rock electronic music (and one 'Cosmic Hits' CD/DVD package on the Disques de Lapin label) available through itunes and amazon, there are now over 40 songs from these works offered as part of a FREE Public Art Project called Galactic Witchcraft that allows downloads at no charge & radio transmission of these galactic hits!

Merging conceptual art, songcrafting & science fiction writings & illustration, Craft employs a spoken text narrative between songs that are taken straight from the pages of his illustrated novelettes, which explore themes of identity, time travel, culture-shifting mechanisms, and planetary phenomenon. One of the novelettes, “The Future Room” is a ‘fairytale for adults’ and was used along with Craft's “Walking On Water” single as the soundtrack for a piece which won an award from the government of Taiwan for Creativity In Dance.

Creating “Low Budget / High Impact” art, Craft’s music is recorded in the bedroom with only 4 tracks on cassette tape, where he is the sole writer, performer, & producer: simplified, bare essence unofficial recordings that act as a sonic notebook. Like Godard’s assertion that the new challenge of art is to create “a unity of politics and art, the unity of revolutionary content and artistic form,” these Do-It-Yourself ‘Homemade’ recordings— in contrast to so many million dollar blockbusters— are made on the stylishly pimp budget of a new used shoe.

Craft’s lo-fi approach to music making reflects a commitment to an independent and solitary creation of art made directly out of the resources of everyday life. It’s electronic music done the human way; played live, per track, with no computers or sampling.

Like most science fiction, the work is not about Far Away Worlds as much as Reflections of Home. The homemade space ‘craft’ from which so much of the material takes place is composed of Innerspace more than Outerspace; and even still, it’s a place where alien beings reside. No, not little green men… but the aliens we, on Earth, have become to our own natural state.

Having merged so much with our technologies, and the stories we have told ourselves through history, we are now a self-creation culturally that is in part cyborg, inseparable from the tools we live through. As a space traveling diarist, Craft mines the depths for mirrors of our true and false selves, and through this process of discovery and invention, offers glimpses into Possible Places Tomorrow.

Both instrumental and vocal tracks from Craft's indie albums have been used by other artists for performance art events in Australia, Taiwan, Amsterdam, and Colombia, in addition to various events in New York City. He branched out into Tribeca Theater Festival territory as co-writer of yet another ‘fairytale for adults’ called “Timmy The Great” with Pulitzer Prize nominated writer Sandra Hochman, which was directed and choreographed in 2006 by Tony-winner, Savion Glover.