Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys

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Walter Sickert & the ARmy of BRoken TOys are a musical alchemy, fingering the rabbit hole of performance art. With their toys and voices they create a Death-Folk, SteamCrunk, Organic-Industrial experience.

Please email us with any sort of request! info@armyoftoys.com

!!!Casualty Menagerie the EP from WALTER SICKERT & THE ARMY OF BROKEN TOYS

is AVAILABLE NOW just clicky click my dears and be eaten by giant plastic squids and sung to by escaped murdering Labrats!!!



EPK: http://www.sonicbids.com/WalterSickertandTheArmyofBrokenToys

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Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys are touring throughout the world. Their music has appeared on international and American radio as well as in independent films and on television.

"We take the listener on a journey through the horrible, through mountains of noise and seas of emotion we take them to see the WIRETOOTH creatures that live in the forests of love, betrayal, longing and hate and the audience can relate every step of the way"-W.S

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"Musically sophisticated and immensely talented, wildly unusual and diverse in material and presentation, a Dada-esque circus carnival run amuck, and just plain good ‘not-always-so-clean’ fun." - Boston Survival Guide - 2010

"Really, any fan of the Velvet Underground, the Dresden Dolls, or those haunted merry-go-rounds that turn up in horror movies shouldn't miss Walter and the Toys, who elegantly merge the essence of all three" Globe

"There is a curious blend of mischief and morbidity in Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys, as the duo of Sickert and Edrie are called. They garnish their ominous doom-folk with the theatricality of a demonic circus troupe. Past performances have included storytellers, fire-eaters, glass-eaters, contortionists and, of course, Edrie's broken toy army." Boston Herald 2009

"Holy Damn this is so good...if Jim Morrison is walking the afterworld, he surely must audition for this band. And I shall be the one to tell him to!" - (Mike Loce) The Noise -OCT, 2006-issue 265

"Walter Sickert the Army of Broken Toys is about performance art as much as it is music" - Boston Herald 2009

"Something like Nine Inch Nails, horror movie soundtracks, and two radio stations that have their frequencies crossed." - BOSTON GLOBE January-9th-2007

"Their performance confounds the mind as much as it delights the senses." - (Nancy Neon) THE NOISE 2007

"Even the dreamy ambient numbers like "Sacrilege" dip into more nightmarish territory as Sickert's vocals, which are nearly always distorted, ebb and flow under the beauty." Ham radio static, reverb drenched piano, sinister synth line and Sickert's sidekick Edrie's creepy vocals make for a kind of Goth folk ride." - (Jon Nolan) THE WIRE 11 October 2006

"Turn and face the strange. Sickert has a real gift as a multi-instrumentalist and singer and he journeys into dark and eclectic material on his debut disc." - Maneating Lemur 2006

"Taken as a whole, the 13 track CD is epic poetry exploring the black pit of human despair. ...the sweet cooing of Edrie is the perfect haunting echo to Walter's murderous howl. Soul-crushing heartbreak never sounded so good." - (Lexi Kahn) Low Budget Super Hero 2007

"The duo behind the din manage to create a sound-scape that could pass for Lewis Carol's nightmares or an opium-soaked daydream." - (Jack)www.liarsociety.com 0ct-10-07

"Sickert and Edrie are hunkering down for another RPM Challenge on the heels of completing a new studio album, which they hope to release this summer. One of the songs they originally recorded for the 2009 RPM Challenge made it onto their latest disc. That song, called “Off with Her Head,” was recorded live last February with audience participation and is now their most commonly requested tune." - The Wire - Interview for 5th Annual RPM Challenge 2010


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Member Since:

June 17, 2005

Members:

Walter Sickert - Vox, Piano, Guitar
Edrie - Vox, accordion, xylophone, Broken Toys
Rachel Jayson - Viola, Violin, Cello

jojo the Burlesque Poetess - MC, Poet, Uke


Meff - Guitar, Drums, bubbles, mustache, css
TJ Horn - Drums
Mike Leggio - Stand-up Bass
Madelaine Ripley - Violin
Kevin Corzett - Clarinet, Sax, Cigtar

& you and me our Giant Squid our Circus Bear 5 dead hookers & Mitre Square!!!

--- Band Bunnies ---
(live performance artists who sometimes join the fray on instrument or body)

Mali Sastri - Vocals, Piano
Katrina Galore - Dancer, talent wrangler, goddess
Kama Lord - Lady
Martin Owens - Gent
Amy Roeder - card bunny
Natasha Sorokin - nested doll bunny
Ben Parsons - Marionette
Irina Peligrad - Marionette
Al - Marionette
e. Stephen Hedge Clippers
Nate GreenSlit - Drums
Daniel Schubmehl - Drums
Tony Leva - Standup Bass
Paul Dilly - Stanup Bass
Eli Higgins - Mental Patient
Kelsey Jarboe - Accordion, Voice, Piano, bunny
Stephanie Ramirez - Plastic Lady
Ted Read - circuit bent bunny
Mitchel Ahern - Electric Crutch
Odd Child Upraising - Juggling, contortion
---the Lab Rat Players---

(talented musicians who donated fingers and minds to "Causality Menagerie")

Melodica-Basso, Various kitchen utensils, sequencing on "No Room" "Pale Horse" & "ROTR" by Lainey Shulbaum (Steamy Bohemians)

Cello on "No Room" "Pale Horse" & "ROTR" by Val Thompson (Goli, Fluttr Effect)

Violin "No Room" "Pale Horse" & "ROTR" by Myq kaplan

Violin and 2nd female vocals on "Viktagrapgh" by Heather Kuhn

"No Room" "Pale Horse" & "ROTR"

Arranged produced recorded engineered and mixed by Lainey Shulbaum with extra sticky thanks to Scott Dakota for creative recording and mixing wisdom.
"VIktagrapgh", "Carnal Carnivale" recorded and arranged by Walter Sickert available @ CDbaby , iTunes and rabbit holes everywhere!!!

Influences:

LIES, Jack the Ripper, William S. Burroughs, SAINT DALI, ocean, Antiques, Bjork, Abusive Childhoods, Alister Crowley, The Coconut Grove Fire, Rasputina, The Cure, Mono, SAINT LOSS, Tarot Cards, Taxidermy, fishing jiggers, Le Theatre de Grand Guignol, Portishead, Hellraiser 2, Titus, The Begotten, Jhonny Cash, The Divine Comedy, Paradise lost, SAINT POE, Mustache wax, Throbbing Gristle, Dolls, Hoop Skirts, SAINT DEATH, windups, Amsterdam, YeahYeahYeahs, Skinny Puppy, Diamanda Galas, VCR instructions, Anton LaVey, Alice in Wonderland, Clinic, the stop animation film "Alice", Jan Svankmajer, The Silver Smoke of Dreams.

Sounds Like:

a chorus of wiretooth animals and rotting wood

Record Label:

WIREFOREST