bio
Hello friends! Welcome to my happy little web corner :) Here are some professional facts
about me, written in the third person:
Graham Ulicny is a multi-instrumentalist musician who has composed, toured and recorded
music
in many
capacities. As a founding member of Athens, GA-based band Reptar, he wrote and recorded
three
studio albums on independent labels including Vagrant, Lucky Number and Joyful Noise;
working with acclaimed producers Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley, Belle and
Sebastian) and Andy LeMaster (Now It’s Overhead, Bright Eyes). His current band Thick Paint features
Ameen Wahba, Sarah Bohling, and Ryan Menchaca and released their first album "a
perrenial approach to free time" digitally on Joyful Noise Records in 2018.
He is the current
keyboardist of Omaha, NE based band The Faint since 2016, with whom he has toured the US and
recorded on new material released through Saddle Creek Records. He has
recorded and toured with Omaha-based band Icky Blossoms and LA based group Media Jeweler. He
has performed at many large
national festivals including Bonaroo, Governor’s Ball, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits,
Sasquatch, Fuck Yeah Fest, Beach Goth, Electric Forest, Wakarusa, and others.
In 2016,
Graham
collaborated with Elena Araoz on a production of her original work Plastic Drastic at the
historic Rose Theater in Omaha, NE contributing live performance and original composition.
He again collaborated with Araoz on the 2016 production of Hillary Bettis’ Alligator
produced by New Georges and The Sol Project for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk
Award for
Outstanding Music in a Play along with collaborators Daniel Ocanto and Sean Smith. He
provided an original soundtrack to Nik (Lovely, Still)
and
Kat Fackler's experimental film One Day, One Month, One Year.
He is a proficient vocalist,
guitarist, bassist, keyboardist and electronic music programmer, tomato grower,
Kate Bush karaoke impersonator, and band mommy :)