Album Notes

Motion Sickness - 1999: "Scott's latest is a bizarre concept piece called Motion Sickness and all twenty-one tunes could have been recorded on one track (and would have if this was the seventies). Motion Sickness picks up where Scott's previous disc HellBox Mood Rings left off.... taking the listener on a sonic voyage that is at times disturbing, but always understandable... This disc is a true voyage in and of itself and Helland provides a beautifully nightmarish travelogue for us all..." VMag March 2000

"...listen with your head-phones on and your room nice and dim, embark on an audio journey that will guide you into visual landscapes of your own creation."

About Scott Helland:
Scott Helland is an American-born punk-veteran guitarist of Czech and Portuguese descent whose been writing, recording and performing music since the 80's. He has over 25 recordings out including 7 solo CDs and as of 2010 4 CDs with his duo The Gypsy Nomads aka Frenchy and the Punk.

The Gypsy Nomads features French-born British artist/dancer Samantha Stephenson on vocals, percussion and drums and Helland on guitar, drums, and live guitar loops. Touring extensively year round they perform at festivals, theatres, conventions, clubs and cafes and can be heard on independent radio in the US and Europe.

In the eighties and nineties, Helland played bass guitar with the bombastic Western MA hardcore punk bands Deep Wound, (which included Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis and Lou Barlow,) and Outpatients (with his brother Vis Helland). Both bands released critically acclaimed underground recordings that still sell today to punk record collectors and aficionados of the hardcore music scene here in the U.S, Asia and Europe. Both bands have also been chronicled in the recent books American Hardcore; A Tribal History, Choosing Death; The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grind Core and F***ed Up and Photocopied; Art of the Punk Movement. Deep Wound is also listed in the Encyclopedia of Punk.

The Gypsy Nomads aka Frenchy and the Punk discography:
Happy Madness (2010)
At the Carnival Eclectique (2008)
Eternal Summer (2008)
Thread & Stone (2007)

Scott Helland solo CDs:
Catapult (2006)
Brocade (2004)
Earthbound (2002)
Space Age Trancelogy (2000)
Motion Sickness (1999)
Hellbox Mood Rings (1996)