RURAL WAR ROOMis a duo: Byron Werner and Donavan Suitt. Listed alone (in upper case) this name refers to the world's first cyber band, in that we record online with members in other countries.
This name is franchised out into a radio show and record label. Keep reading...
Byron Werner Synthesizers, Lead Vocals, Turntables, Wobble Bowls, Cassettes, Samplers, Drums, Toys, Sound Effect Triggers, Other Electronics, Titles, Artwork.
This duo also hosts the bi-weekly show Rural War Room Radio featuring theme shows (click for details) produced every other Tuesday night at KABF 88.3 FM, Little Rock, Arkansas broadcasting worldwide at KABF883.com.
The RWR Radio Show is syndicated on many other stations as well. A portion of the calendar listings to the right are for re-broadcasts of the RWR Radio Show. Re-broadcasts say "syndicated" in the listing.
New live radio broadcasts and live events for RURAL WAR ROOM (all caps) the cyber band are marked * on our calendar –>
New releases from our label, RWR Records, are marked ** on our calendar ->
The cyber band RURAL WAR ROOM has three additional named members with others overseas who prefer to remain anonymous:
Jami Kath Harrison
Vocals, Synthesizers, Piano, Guitars, Photo, Video, Production, Magic Touch.
The sound of this cyber band is an expanded audio interpretation of the visual collage work of Byron Werner, it's primary member.
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• Get the new RURAL WAR ROOM DVD Single OUT NOW! It features three insane music video experiments - both videos from the debut album and the theme song "Rural War Room" TSF Remix Version (Rome, Italy) from the EP. This DVD is available now Only $15 USD postage paid in the USA through paypal. Ships NOW.
• Our newest venture, the label Rural War Room Records, is currently in production for numerous projects. We carry unusual artists who are more than committed to their vision... whether anyone understands it or not. On RWR Records, you will find what most call outsider artists and oddities found nowhere else.
• Also get the newly uncovered original pressings of Not Necessarily Beautiful But Mutated Volume 5 and the equally brilliant Volume 6; the past two releases in an annual collection of DEVO cover songs by artists all over the world. These last two releases were thought to be sold out, but the Spud gods have smiled down and made them available to YOU for only $15 USD each - postage paid. Don't miss these very limited (no kidding) edition hand-numbered CDs. Shipping now. Paypal click below.
• RWR Records is proud to announce the newly restored recordings of Little Rock, Arkansas' finest musical transplant to Venice Beach, CA, the one and only
Elton and Betty White remastered from the original recordings, thanks to our good friend Jerry Colburn. This is the first time these recordings have ever been heard outside the studio. Suitt has cataloged then entire collection - 240 songs in all. The first CD, Elton and Betty White - Hard Deep Sex Explosion (1989/2008) will be available this fall. It is a pity that it has taken so long for the world to have access to the couple's recordings. Though Betty is no longer with us, Elton deserves much more than the world has given him. It is time for him to get something back. This is a labor of love. Profits from this release go directly to Elton.
• Current RWR Records releases include the politically incorrect self-titled cult hit Johnny Future; Little Rock comedy veterans, Red Octopus Theater; foul-mouthed holiday icon, Mr. Santa - Live and Studio! plus the two CDs playing now by the cyber band RURAL WAR ROOM.
• RWR Records also looks forward to releasing lost artists like southern darlingTammy Loretta Judd, outsider Omo the Hobo, Little Rock's own psychedelic Christian group from '69, Rayburn, tone-challenged lounge couple The Real Jonzes, and the original shock-jock from late-'70s black radio, Chicago's own white guy-with-band, Bob Wall and the Wall-Notes. Also watch for debut releases from other lost Little Rock, AR acts like war veteran Jack Pardon, and the ever-elderly CC and the Fossiles, alongside the politically incorrect fair of The UBAF.RWR Records will also be releasing The New World of Stainless Steel, and many lost recordings and ultra-obscure vinyl - burlesque humor, female impersonators, high-school bands, one-shot religious recordings and more - digitized for the very first time. Watch for the new website coming soon. Please tell your friends...
• Tuesday, July 22nd, catch our bi-weekly online radio broadcast, Rural War Room Radio - two hours every other Tuesday night. Next up, The Comedy Encore Show features the sounds of comedy from our vast library of long-lost vinyl. Bear in mind the real definition - Comedy: Something that was supposed to be funny. This will be the show to require a two drink minimum at the bar/four at a table for. Click here for the KABF 88.3 Live Stream. Read our calendar to the right for details on future radio shows.
• RWR Radio premiered the new album by The Transistors (Rome, Italy) here in the US this past March 4th, and in Italy, April 3rd. The world still awaits it's official release. Until then, click here to listen to the RWR guys premiere of "Spiral Waltz" on Italian internet radio.
• RWR is proud to be featured with The Transistors on tour! Intros for songs and full music videos, including the first song "Last Train" will accompany performances on this European tour. Also watch for RWR multilingual interviews with the band about their new album Modern Landscape (2008 Funky Juice).
• Finally online! RWR's Donavan Suitt and Byron Werner produced and directed the new music video for Italian lounge supergroup The Transistors' new song "Last Train" featuring special guests GARBO on vocal with guitars by Giuseppe "Elfacia" Cirillo.
• Byron Werner is featured in the winter 2008 edition of CA Modern Magazine with Jeff Kaliss. For those who don't know, Werner is the one who revived the careers of Juan Esquivel and Raymond Scott from oblivion. He also coined the phrase "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" which was the title of the first big re-issue of an Esquivel collection. In fact, read the liner notes. They say, "If you enjoy the music of Juan Esquivel - Thank Byron Werner..." Thanks. Read the CA Mag article Esquivel In Orbit by Jeff Kaliss.
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• The song "Rural War Room (TSF Supersonic Remix)" will also be featured on the forthcoming Bob Moog tribute album, Switched on Bob (2008) released internationally by Cherry Red Records and Bella Casa Music, London.
• RURAL WAR ROOM is proud to be a regular cyber-performer in the podcast event hosted by Thin-P at The Apple Computer Store Nagoya, Japan. This most recent event haapened March 1st, 2008 POD JAM 5 featured the cut from the Rural War Room EP (2007) recorded with ErMan in Rome, Italy. It also included well as the world premiere of two cuts from the forthcoming RURAL WAR ROOM album, The Flaming Yawn (2008).
• Thanks to sponsors who made this project possible. Watch for future collaborations with Roman electronic wizards The Transistors.
We now have the shirts below. They come in white. These shirts come directly from RWR. Find other colors/styles and products like RWR g-strings, hoodies, housewares, animal garments and more at Cafe Press.
Along with the release of the new RURAL WAR ROOM EP is the new EP T-Shirt featuring the original hole-punched gift wrap mandala print by Byron Werner. Boggle the minds and eyes of friends with this mandala made from hole-punched gift wrap print by Byron Werner. Only $13 each postage paid - Cheaper here than in stores! They come in majestic white. SM, M, L, XL, XXL.
All shirts are designed to make you look your psychedelic best!
* Hanes® White T-Shirt
* 100% preshrunk cotton
* Durable color-fast inks
* No thick plastic on your fabric!
* Form-fitting and sexy!
Get the classic Ring-A-Ding Orangutan t-shirt. Boggle the minds and eyes of friends with this mandala made from hole-punched gift wrap print by Byron Werner. Only $13 each postage paid! They come in majestic white - don't be afraid. SM, M, L, XL, XXL.
RURAL WAR ROOM has an additional line-up that is minimal yet ever-changing. Featured are the talents of numerous guest artists who are manipulated through mind-control. RURAL WAR ROOM products are quality CDs. Each is unique and collectible.
Thanks to all the fans who have called attention to the debut album, Ring-A-Ding Orangutan by RURAL WAR ROOM and tuned in to the duo's
podcast, heard 'round the world, RURAL WAR ROOM RADIO.
To our friends who find themselves in Tokyo, get your music at the non-mail-order store that will satisfy your need for rare items -
Visit Shop Mecano Tokyo, Japan!
Influences
Kurt Schwitters, Stump, Raymond Scott, Godfrey Reggio, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Perry and Kingsley, Juan Esquivel, eX-Girl, Col. Bleep, Russ Meyer, George Liberace, Mimi Van Doren.
Sounds Like
My favorite monkey, Flight 273 to Mars, a-choo, the corner of 7th & Bedford, a seance, a hippopotomous in suitcase sauce, Realistic Lab 390, voodoo drum jerks, the money machine, strings in space, air seeping from a yellow balloon, laughing with you, distant fireworks in November, a submarine with Turkish instructions, an orchestra in full swing, grade-school short film narration, a swift kick in the teeth, laser beams from friends, invisible tamborines, sophisticated Arabian military movements, lounging by a furious stream, Fernando Lamas, some yelling from mom, birds chirping through a tube, double-time pornography, slowed and slurred dialog, modern homes, Lawrence of Arabia, a steam wand on high, Tallulah Bankhead, a crank with no work brain, backwards playground wars, a very large gong, an unexpected LSD trip, falling down a flight of stairs, the damned phone in 1975, a 6-month-old jazz singer, the first take-off plan, some spare change, Lilac Park, Japanese pillow factories, my coughing fit in the exam room, Stu Goddard, a hair-band from that sitcom, Pamela Grier, 1960s news clips, synthetic slides up and down the block, a redneck convenience store clerk on the phone, tipsy Tina, fake snoring by an ex-actor, Mr. T, a psycho on the keys, a drill in the crib, fornicating Swaggart, the car finally starting, thunderous applause at a dinner theatre, atonal sax solo, a dog toilet, low-brow opera, 1980s music store promotional music, marching in hell, some beatleson the sidewalk, feedback pie, crossing the Pacific, a hippie's bells tangling around his feet, Tom Bailey, a semitone too flat, heavy coffee drinking in the morning, the deaf talk-show host, LaToya Jackson, a Bulgarian barista, CD skips that stayed in time, a double hand-spring over and over with a dash of dill. A menace.
The sounds and images on this web page are the property of RURAL WAR ROOM (Donavan Suitt and Byron Werner) and may not be used or reproduced without written permission of the owner.
RURAL WAR ROOM is a duo, Donavan Suitt and Byron Werner. The pair record unconventional pop songs, sound collage experiments, hypnosis tracks and everything in between.
The sights and sounds produced by the world's first cyber band RURAL WAR ROOM are sometimes referred to as Culture Jamming, Guerrilla Communication, Primitive Turntablism, MashUp, IECM (Intelligent Electronic Collage Music), CAV (Conceptual A/V Performance)
RURAL WAR ROOM is currently in online recording sessions with Theremin-enthusiast ErMan and remixers Timeless Sonic Factory for the forthcoming RWR album, The Flaming Yawn (2008 RWR).
RURAL WAR ROOM's debut album, Ring-A-Ding Orangutan (2006 RWR) and new EP Rural War Room (2007 RWR) are both in rotation all over the globe thanks to the
International iTunes Store! Listeners in Japan, Rome, Switzerland, China, Hong Kong, New York City, Woodstock, Austin and Los Angeles are decoding secret messages, inverted speech, feedback tones and morse code from the group's latest audio and video recordings.
OUT NOW, the Moog club mixes and live cuts on the newest CD, Rural War Room EP (2007 RWR) in two clicks below. Italian Theremin master and RWR collaborator ErMan has done the primary 12" remix of the song in association with Timeless Sonic Factory aka TSF. This mix is the one
posted above. Also included on this new EP are three more club mixes, cuts from Pod Jam 4 Nagoya, Japan and live cuts from the 2007 Not Fest in Little Rock, Arkansas. Order now and get a free 2 7 3 car magnet! To buy the CD, Rural War Room EP NOW using Paypal, click below.
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To buy the virtual EP from iTunes, click below.
The debut recording from RURAL WAR ROOM, Ring-A Ding Orangutan (2006 RWR) is available on iTunes as a virtual LP for the low price of $10 or only .99 per song! Get your virtual copy of Ring-A-Ding Orangutan from the iTunes store linked here:
