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"Once Around The Butterfly Bush" is music made of wood, wind, and wire. A carefully honed composition using simultaneous tempos in any given song, it switches focus between melody/rhythm and figure/ground until they become blurred. This song cycle incorporates a blend of traditional and homemade instruments, and layers musical styles on top of each other until style becomes irrelevant. Once Around The Butterfly Bush is a collage of pre-composed melodic and rhythmic lines that fit together (over and under and in between) like a puzzle piece.

Eddie the Rat began in 2000 as an avant- (something) group led by composer/multi-instrumentalist, Peter J. Martin. Beginning as a one-man electro-acoustic experiment, Eddie the Rat evolved into an ensemble of up to 15 musicians. The current quartet has been performing actively for the last year and a half.

Eddie the Rat creates what they call "head music for your feet." Inspired by Indonesian gamelan, American & European folk, and modern classical music, Eddie the Rat plays a musical form which is all their own and tries to bridge the gap between ritual, roots, and concert music.