Last night I saw Sleepytime Gorilla Museum for the first time & was completely astounded. These guys are amazing in an incredibly bizzare way. Think Bjork, Frank Zappa, Mr. Bungle, & The Blue Man group with a Cirque Du Solei experimental dancer - throw them all in a box & bam, you have Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. If you are wondering what relations this may have with Bunglearmy - Trey Spruance recently signed them on his own label Mimicry Records. Carla Kihlstedt, violinist & partial lead vocalist of SGM also contributed her strings to the Mr. Bungle album California.
Take the time to check them out www.sleepytimegorillamuseum.com You won't be sorry.
I just joined this community and wanted to say hello. I am currently in Houston Tx due to evacuating New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina. I have gotten to read a few of the posts and plan on reading more later. But work calls and I have to get back on track drafting up a letter.
Unhip Records has released a 3″ CD and a 5″ vinyl split of a new Fantômas song and a new Melt Banana song.
Fantômas SideThe amazing split between FANTôMAS and MELT-BANANA is finally ready. Some copies have already ended up on e-bay (copies that were originally sold at the recent Fantômas european shows), but please don’t pay ridiculous prices for it and buy directly from us because there’s no need to worry that the record will sell-out anytime soon (also because it hasn’t been sent to distributors yet). And we haven’t started to sell it mailorder either, mainly because we’ve been (and will be) around the country for festivals so the mailorder will be resumed on Monday September 5th. Sincere apologies to all the people who have ordered the record, please have some more patience and you’ll get it!! Also to those who sent e-mails while I was on vacation, you’ll get your answer asap. We’ll be also accepting paypal payments from now on. The records are all hand-made (this is also why it took us a while to have them all packaged) and comes in 2 formats: the vinyl is a 5 inch while the cd is square-shaped and the diagonal of the square is three inches long.
Melt Banana SideNeedless to say they’re incredibly neat to look at and to be held in your hands, which should be enough of a reason to go out and get it. The split single contains two brand new exclusive songs. Fantômas (who are Mike Patton, King Buzzo, Trevor Dunn and Dave Lombardo for those living under a rock) go crazy on their “Animali In Calore Surriscaldati Con Ipertermia Genitale” (animals in heat overheated with genital hyperthermia), while Japan’s noisecore legends Melt-Banana gave us the wonderful “Cat In Red”. The artwork was drawn by Igort, a friend of ours who also happens to be one of the most talented artists in the world of comics. Check out his website www.igort.com , he’s also responsible for the Unhip Records logo.
Ok i saw the earlier post and i am going to try and include as many of the Bungle spin off's/side projects that i can possibly remember, here we go:
Patton:
Moonraker - various members overtime, kind of improv stuff, Buckethead played on it
w/ john Zorn (New York City Jazzbo gone hardcore, then back to jazz and jewish music)
Naked City (Voice) - Live only Masada (Voice/Samples) Hemophiliac (Voice/samples) AMAZING..get this recording (Tzadik Records)
Patton has done loads of apearances with zorn including multiple apearance throughtout the tzadik "Great Jewish Music" series (including ennio morricone and Marc Bolan*) *first ever fantomas track Chariot Choogle
Patton is a bit of an apearance whore, he has appeared on to name a few, Ray Paci's Corleone, Sepultura albums, Bjork's Medulla album.
House of Dicipline - Live only except one single with bob osertag, kind of strange loops and gayness
Phono Sanjo - Pattons worst ever project, really bad
Perfect Victim - only ever did 1 show, bootlegs are foating about though
Feedback Etudes - Patton noise fest, mic and volume manipulation stuff, good
Weird Little Boy - PAtton and Trey's worst ever recording together (with zorn and friends)...even they hate it
Fantomas - Patton's best current band, if you havent heard them you are a fool
Tomahawk - Jesus Lizard but poppier, i like em, many fans dont
Patton vs Executioners - half of this record is really good, but half is not
Kaada/Patton - amazing, especially if you love Kaada as well
Peeping Tom - this will probably never happen, and if it does it will probably suck
Dillenger Escape Plan - excellent avant metal record, patton on top form
theres more but i cant remember them right now...
Trey Spruance
Three Doctors Band - kind of jokey bar band, really funny
Zip Code Rapists - another funny band that the 3 docs spun off from
Faxed head - Brilliant Disabled Metal, GET THESE RECORDS!!
Noddingturd Fan - Trey's solo project turned band w/ Trev Dunn
Plainfield - AMAZING punk a billy rock, jello Biafra was in them for a while
Forms - basically a solo project again but played live by :
Secret Chiefs 3 - Basically the best thing on earth, a masterpiece of modern music, and my favourite band along with bungle, Fantomas and Messer Chups all the albums are amazing get them all
Millers High Life - really obscure trey solo thing, released web of mimicry track on compilation
Crafty Ladies - kind of weird, releases a "Crafty Ladies Christmas" 7"
Scourge - had original Bungle drummer, kind of lame metal
theres a bunch of live only stuff as well including the Bon Larvis band, The hammers of eternity and Los Parisitos
man this is taking ages sorry
Dunn:
WAAAAAY TOO MANY BANDS ... ask me another time
Danny:
Dieslehead - poppy stuff, very cool
Glitch - aussie experimental band CHECK THESE GUYS
Barefoot Hocky Goalie - rock opera's!!
he has a new band too but i cannae remember their name
Bar: (pronounced Bear)
appears on Secret Chiefs, and hammers of eternity...he is in a new band as well (maybe the same one actually) but is pretty lazy
FUUUUUCK that took ages! I missed a few, and i will add Trevors stuff in tomorrow when i have a couple of hours spare...hope it was educational
If anyone here checks the Kaada official site regularly or has Caca Volante bookmarked, you probably heard about the footage from a Kaada/Patton show. I noticed that some folks were able to view the videos and others, like myself, were unable. Does anybody know why that is? For the people who the videos loaded for: How were they, and do you know of any alternative sources?
These gorgeous photographs on the site have me quite eager to view these. What does everybody think of the Kaada/Patton band anyway? I'm speechless at how beautiful the music is, and I have no idea what other fans think of it.
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