Melding death-metal vocals, formal musical training and noise galore, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum enjoys playing with the notion of what is musical. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, along with having arguably the best name in music, is known for its monstrous but pretty music, like the soundtrack to a troubled dream.
Carla Kihlstedt of the bands Tin Hat Trio and Two Foot Yard plays violin and sings in the Museum, and rounding out the exhibit are Frank Grau on drums and Moe Staiano on percussion. Appearing on the one hand to be a post-modern Apocalyptic Cult, Sleepytime Gorilla Musem delight in setting folksy allegorical tales of auto-genocide and the species-wide doom we all face to. The pair were partners in Idiot Flesh, a group known for huge theatrical shows that among other things featured simulated onstage decapitations and adult puppet shows.įrykdahl leads the Museum with scary voice and guitar, and the rest of the band plays a huge array of largely homemade or treated instruments. Sleepytime must be heard to begin to be truly understood, but here goes a modest attempt:Īn art supergroup of sorts, San Francisco's Sleepytime Gorilla Museum features core members Nils Frykdahl and Dan Rathbun. That's my idea of heaven.Cheer up, kiddies, the circus is in town.Īrt-rock freaks Sleepytime Gorilla Museum are coming, with their "this is what it might sound like to have an enjoyable seizure" sound.
"I just live for the actual rehearsal process - pushing and pulling in a room with people. "The way we hash things out is very hands on, and I love that," said Kihlstedt. The collaborative spirit is evident in "Last Human Being," a project with dancer Shinichi Momo Koga that is being made into a short art film that will be previewed during this weekend's performance. Ideas are experimented with very easily." "Everyone is writing songs, and everyone speaks the traditional technical languages of music. "The current group has the best communication dynamic ever," said Rathbun, who engineers and mixes SGM recordings, plays bass and has built such original instruments as the Electric Pancreas and the Percussion Guitar. But the sound is organic to the group rather than calculatedly ironic or postmodern. The music is thorny, with rhythmic shifts that recall prog progenitors King Crimson and Yes, and intricately ornamented with glockenspiel, autoharp, Tibetan bells and dozens of other instruments. An art supergroup of sorts, San Franciscos Sleepytime Gorilla Museum features core members Nils Frykdahl and Dan Rathbun. One of San Francisco's strangest homes just hit the market.3 Bay Area restaurants make New York Times America's best restaurants list.Horoscope for Tuesday, 9/20/22 by Christopher Renstrom.Horoscope for Wednesday, 9/21/22 by Christopher Renstrom.Tech workers at Compass laid off due to housing market slowdown.Part of California's Highway 1 closed, shelter-in-place issued for Moss Landing.San Francisco residents, tourists already seem sick of Dreamforce.Those qualities now characterize SGM, which, after several personnel shifts now includes percussionist Michael Mellender and Kihlstedt's husband, drummer-percussionist Matthias Bossi. Oakland experimental hard rock music video KrankTVLike this video Come see hundreds more at - the Net's biggest home for metal, death, grind, t.
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"Here was this music that was entirely rigorous, full of detail, really visceral, had real brains behind it and was entirely entertaining," she said of Idiot Flesh. She was looking to find a new musical identity in a non-classical idiom that would give her as much joy as playing Bartok string quartets. Kihlstedt, who also plays violin and sings in Tin Hat and 2 Foot Yard, teamed with Frykdahl and Rathbun in 1999 after watching a set by their famously theatrical band Idiot Flesh. "But if you dig to what's underneath," she said, "even the humor is very serious." Kihlstedt granted that there's a lot of humor in the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum aesthetic, which owes its name to an obscure early 20th century futurist/Dadaist project, includes outlandish costumes and makeup, and features Kihlstedt's whisper-to-a-scream singing and Frykdahl's operatic, often-ghoulish Tom Waits-channeling-Darth Vader vocals.
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