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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 electronic concept-rock music (and one 'Cosmic Hits' CD/DVD package on the Disques de Lapin label), over 40 songs are now offered as part of a FREE Public Art Project called Galactic Witchcraft that allows downloads at no charge & widespread radio transmission of these galactic hits!

Merging conceptual art, songcrafting & science fiction writings & illustration, Craft employs a spoken text narrative between songs that is taken straight from the pages of his illustrated stories, which explore themes of identity, time travel, culture-shifting mechanisms, and planetary phenomenon.

Creating “Low Budget / High Impact” art, these songs are recorded in the bedroom; personal, 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’ cassette recordings are made merely with mind, hands & mouth on the stylishly pimp budget of a new used shoe, and reflect a commitment to art made directly out of the resources of everyday life.

Like most science fiction, the work is not about Far Away Worlds ~ The space ‘craft’ so much of the material takes place from is composed of Inner-space, more than Outerspace; with stories not about 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 lyric tracks from Craft's independent recordings have been used by other artists for performance art events in Australia, Amsterdam, Colombia, various events in New York City, and one fortuitous song (‘Walking On Water’) was choreographed by Kun Yang Lin and won an award from the Government of Taiwan for Creativity in Dance. Craft branched out into the professional theater realm as a co-writer, with celebrated novelist Sandra Hochman, of yet another ‘fairytale for adults’ called “Timmy The Great”, which was directed and choreographed by Tony-winner Savion Glover for the Tribeca Theater Festival. And now, Future Room's troubadour is planning to publish a children’s book as part of his mission to ensure that the kids of the future don’t leave their imaginative impulses in discarded crayon bins & carry their bold artistic identities into a lifelong adventure of creation.