17 Pygmies return to play IPO Tuesday Aug. 5th

17th Pygmies Return for Rare Live Performance at International Pop Overthrow

WHAT: International Pop Overthrow LA
WHERE: Spaceland. 1717 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026, 323-661-4380
WHEN: Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 8:30 p.m.
COST: $8.00/21+

LOS ANGELES - International Pop Overthrow (or IPO, as its friends call
it) is a pop music festival celebrating its tenth year in Los Angeles.
There have also been IPO festivals held in Chicago, New York, Boston,
San Francisco, Vancouver, Toronto, and in Liverpool, England (at the
world-famous Cavern Club).

Each International Pop Overthrow features between 100-180 of the
world's best pop bands. The purpose of IPO is two-fold: to give every
worthy band who'd like to play their music in a festival atmosphere
the chance to do so, and to bring honest, delightful pop music the
attention it so richly deserves.

Featured at the upcoming Los Angeles IPO is the legendary post-punk
ensemble 17 Pygmies, featuring Jackson Del Rey (founding member of
influential L.A. band Savage Republic). 17 Pygmies will be performing
brand new songs for this show.

Band leader Jackson Del Rey has recently received world-wide attention
for his DVD releases featuring original soundtracks for the silent
films "Battleship Potemkin" and "Nosferatu." Recent press includes a
six-page spread in Blow Up Magazine (Italy) and a feature in Wound
Magazine (U.K.), both including in-depth interviews with Jackson where
he discusses composing film scores and returning to music making after
a 17-year hiatus. 17 Pygmies, 17 years? If we know Jackson, this is no
accident!

Of the 17 Pygmies' live show in Boston last year, Lucid Culture raved
"If it's possible for a sometimes quirky, often transcendentally
beautiful art-rock band to slay, The 17 Pygmies slayed, bringing to
mind other great, artsy jangle bands like the Church, the Byrds or
Fairport Convention. Mixing major and minor chords, verses that built
slowly to towering refrains and then subsided again, the band held the
audience spellbound. If the live show is any indication, the new album
must be amazing. This is a band you should get to know."

Sharing the IPO bill on August 5th at Spaceland are: Kristian Hoffman,
17 Pygmies, Saucy Monky, Io Perry, Aaron David Gleason and The
Holliston Stops

The 2007 releases "Ballade Of Tristram's Last Harping" and "13
Blackbirds" were well-received and left no doubt that Jackson Del Rey
is back to stay. A new experimental record "Celestina" is slated to be
released this fall.

For more 17 Pygmies and on the Trakwerx label, visit
http://www.trakwerx.blogspot.com
http://www.trakwerx.com/label.htm
http://www.myspace.com/17pygmies

For Spaceland info, visit http://clubspaceland.com

Jackson Del Rey is available for interviews, and review copies of 17
Pygmies' "Ballade of Tristram's Last Harping", "13 Blackbirds" & "Celestina" are
available upon request. Contact Meg Maryatt at Trakwerx,
info@trakwerx.com