...carrying on the tradition os Pink Floyd’s Dark Sidenbow PRESS:   “By far the most impressive live show I’ve seen this year!” - Joseph Weisenthal, owner of Thespian Seperatists Prod. - Alamo Drafthouse- Austin, TX "All the painstaking work she put into the writing process pays off big time...The result is The Return to Oz Project, a concept album with 30 original songs synched to the film whose stunning visual and scant dialogue provide the perfect backdrop for Wren’s imaginative compositions." - Jenny Poplar, City Weekly SUNDANCE SHOW: JAN 21st -8pm - OC TANNER VENUE - 416 Main St Park City, UT: -Host: Fairuza Balk - star of the fillm -screening of the 1985 cult classic film, Return to Oz -live musical performances by Eliza Wren, a variety of instrumentalists & “beheaded” back-up singers (film reference) -CD release (3 years in the making) Eden’s Watchtower Records It has been over 15 years since two stoned college students realized that watching MGM's Wizard of Oz while listening to Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon revealed hidden connections and meanings that Pink Floyd possibly didn't even intend. The world was changed forever. And now Austin's very own Eliza Wren invites you to make a new discovery. In 1935, Disney released a brilliant, visually inventive, experimental sequel to MGM's classic Technicolor musical. Return to Oz starred Fairuza Balk as a post-Oz Dorothy who is locked in a mental hospital after telling Auntie Em and the rest of her bland Kansas kin about her adventures on the yellow brick road. She soon finds herself back in Oz, only to learn that war has all but destroyed it. Dorothy meets up with her old pals and makes new allies such as a sass-talking chicken, a wind-up soldier named Tic-Toe, and a pile of furniture that comes to life with a sprinkle of magic powder. Dorothy will need all the help she can get on her quest to rescue Oz from the reign of an evil princess with interchangeable heads, and her minions, the Wheelers. Revisit this overlooked masterpiece with the original music of Eliza Wren, Austin's beloved rock band that battles against the forces of evil with a mandolin, a banjo, electric sitar, slide guitar, drums, bass and dreamy vocals as their weapons of choice. They will do a live performance of over 30 songs they composed to hauntingly complement the spectacular visual adventure that is Return to Oz. Joining them are three decapitated heads who escaped from the evil Princess Mombis fortress to sing backup. Synchronicity never sounded so good! Recorded with Eden's Watchtower Records Album: ELiZA WREN Returns to Oz © 2008 ELiZA WREN All songs words & music by: Eliza Wren Produced by: Hyrum Summerhays Current performers: Eliza Wren: vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, Mike Crandall: electric & stand-up bass, Dan Pectol: Drums Nord Anderson: Guitar, Eliza Wren Payne: Vocals , Douglas Erikson: Dorbro , Allison Riley: violin, Brady Gunnell: Pedal Steel, Brian: Saw, Mike: Organ, Kelly Dobitz: Mandolin, Jonas Sappington: voice over, Alyssa Katrynn Allred: voice over, Hyrum Summerhays: Accordion http://www.edenswatchtowerrecords.com/http://www.inthisweek.com/articles.php?id=1535#articlehttp://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=461A5CFA-14D1-1357-9CE58423B3428971http://fairuza.net/2009/01/15/ru-hosts-eliza-wrens-return-to-oz-sundance-screening/http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=D6B25BD2-14D1-1357-9C2BC2A78AE4D07Ehttp://www.ewrecs.com/http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/AMDB/Profile?oid=oid:56937http://lostmedia.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0
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