Gatherman Productions: BIO'S
SENTINEL
Sentinel began as a musical side project on a four track recorder, between Dennis Bestafka and Tarabud. Tarabud's vocal abilities & Dennis' musical vision, made for beginning of this etherial combination. Living at the time in Long Beach, California was the seed for some sunny - seaside - dream pop.
In 2000, after only a year of performing as a band, Dennis acted upon a long time personal ambition and enlisted in the U.S. Army Airborne Infantry, seeing it through the War in Iraq and returning home safely. Throughout this time, living on opposite coasts, Dennis & Tarabud wrote music for Sentinel through the mail, by internet, and on occasion meeting to lay down new tracks. It seemed the project was unstoppable and much of this work can be experienced on "The Singles" album, a deeply emotionally haunting compilation, released 2005.
Fall of 2003, Dennis returned to San Francisco, to rekindle the Sentinel project with Tarabud, and new found local musicians, Jenna Tiano, and David Serotkin joined the group. Sentinel now resides under the umbrella of Gatherman Productions releasing their first full length, self titled, studio recording, 2004. The “Sequels and Hunches E.P.” was music created and inspired, while living in the beautiful Bay Area, released summer 2007. The video for "All Her Ways" & "Into the Night" were filmed on location of the Bay and surrounding hills.
Currently the band released "Kites Without Strings" (May 2008). You can preview 3 songs from this album in MUSIC section.
GATHER
GATHER: is a 12 year old, ongoing, indie-rock project. Gather has included many different members throughout the years, but has primarily been fronted by Dennis Bestafka on Vocals and Guitar. Other members have included Brandon Laws, Jon Ellis, Jessie Rowe, and David Johnson. There have been two new singles recorded this year, titled, "something from nothing" and "memory". They can be previewed in the music section of this website.
TARABUD
This is an indie-folk solo project for vocalist of Sentinel. Having taught herself guitar and bass, she came a long way in a very short period of time composing her music. Music was a natural extension of her poetry writing. Her claim to fame are the simple guitar chords, sometimes keyboard compositions that transport her delicate vocals, stories of pain, love, and loneliness to the listener. She has only recently been composing, but has evolved her own unique style of folk and truth-like lullabyes. She is also eccletic; returning to her roots in her Spanish song 'Misterio'. Gatherman Productions finished recording her latest debut album Demons, released in 2006 on www.Cdbaby.com! Be sure to check out the latest tune "Alaska" toward her future album Wandering Landscapes.
SLOVAKI AUDIO
Slovaki Audio is Den's solo, ambient, guitar loop project. It is inspired by the great loopers such as Robert Fripp, David Torn, Brian Eno and Michael Rothmeyer. All loop samples are built live, with inovative sounds and soloing over the top. Expect lots of reverb, delay/echo, and mood.
GATHERMAN AUDIO
Gatherman Audio is Den's Film and Game soundtrack service. In the event that you are working with a tight budget, but imagine a big budget audio mood for your project, contact Dennis by email. You can hear sample medleys in the MUSIC section of this site!