The Screaming Room

27 July 20112011artists

What began as impromptu jamming by some like-minded folk soon evolved into what is now known as The Screaming Room.

This band, consisting of Evan Westre, Jordan Dack and their wives Nicole Westre and Michelle Dack, is a celebration of creativity.

Coming from diverse, musical backgrounds, the members leave no musical stone unturned. For the first 16 weeks of 2011, The Screaming Room wrote and recorded one complete song per week ranging stylistically from folk to spoken word and everything in between.

This group demonstrates that a holistic love of creativity can take us to some fascinating places.

Live at El Centro-7:30pm

A Screaming Room

Everyone needs a safe place to go crazy in.
A small space with thick walls.
A screaming room.

A single key sanctuary.
An empty room in which one can freely slide between dreams and waking life without farewells to dream madness at bedside sacrifices.
Bare walls.
Empty room bursting with self.
Free to climb walls, laugh fully, and cry loudly.
A place to shake off everything one possibly can.
A naked room to be naked in.
To bare our beauty to four bare walls and bare ceiling.
To sing off key in a hundred different voices.
To explore, to mine, to find every corner of ourselves and turn them inside out so that our soul’s lint and antique pennies are devoured by the light of surrender.
A place to be entirely ourselves in all our madness and beauty.
To let go and sprint towards Nirvana.

For outside of that room my spirit is muffled.
If I sing too loudly, the neighbours complain.
If I dance naked while screaming alien syllables in spontaneous languages known only to my tongue,
My own judgments will turn against me.

I want to scream ridiculous chants of self-discovery,
I want to misspell my own name.

I need a small space with thick walls and one key.

A screaming room.