A. Bogs: vocals, banjo & guitar, Bobby Antosca: bass, Tom Lake: drums/percussion, Bob Thorne: piano, accordion & other stuff, Zac Henzel: backing vocals, bass, Jill Pitman: backing vocals, Jose Delhart: electric guitar & lapsteel, Elisa Flynn: harmonium, backing vocals, .
Influences
Lisa Bogs, Mother Teresa, Howard Finster, Daniel Johnston, The Shaggs, Dock Boggs, Jose Delhart, John Madera, Timothy Dick, Monks, My Brightest Diamond, DM Stith, Ernesto Gomez, Mike Hickerson, Elisa Flynn, Rad Unicorn, The Wailing Wall, Phil Pierce, Girls Doing Embroidery.
Sounds Like
Naive indie folk with taxing lyrics, peculiar vocals and some small hillbilly inclinations.
The Museum of Disembodied Folk Art
Presents:
From the Bogs of Brooklyn
Bogs Visionary Orchestra
Representatives of the Celestial Land
Jesus Freaks for the New Millennium
Step right up Ladies & Gentlemen! Believers or not! Feel all the joy & despair of the American Gothic fairground! Be amazed by Sideshow Freaks! A Brood of Vipers! Whitewashed Tombs! Eccentric Performers! Medical Marvels & Mutants! Anatomical Oddities & Weird Appliances! See Optical illusions! Strange Tattoos & Piercings! Curios & Curiosities!
A. BOGS
Once Seen & Heard, Never to Be Forgotten!
He Makes Beautiful Things for God on His New Album:
MEAN OLD WORLD
Here are exquisite & realistic songs of Tragedy & Comedy expressed in glorious sound. A. Bogs believes in Grace, Justice, & Love, even when everything points to the contrary. He’s a bone-aching murder balladeer who can’t stop wearing a Gun. He left Vacation Bible School with Hank Williams whispering in his ears, & sees his world drowning in tears. Harmonicas mourn & lap steels weep as he walks around forlorn. Watch as a world-eating little worm wriggles around him. A. Bogs loves his beloved his lover his love. He sees Jesus in a fetus, he sees Jesus in fighters, dying people, & protesters. He sees Jesus in beggars, strangers, liars, & cheaters. Everything falls to pieces when he’s unemployed. Followed by a pale white rider & a beach-bleached prophet, he helps people on the street.
Members of the Maladroit Union:
Bobby Antosca & Art Baguer play bottom-feeder Bass;
Jill Pittman sings Angelic Backing Vocals;
Jose Delhart Motherplucks Lap Steel, Electric Guitar, Banjo, & Acoustic Guitar;
Elisa Flynn means no Harmonium;
Timothy Dick plays forward-moving Drums, Piano & Toy Piano;
Lydia Velichkovski plinks on the Piano;
Ernesto Gomez gets black & blue on the Harmonica;
Sean Hagerty soars on Violin & Electric Violin;
Kareem Goubran blows the trump of god;
Ero Gray: Soul claps & hits your cabeza with the Cabasa
IT’S THE MOST MAGNIFICENT PAGEANT
in the history of the colony!
Come as you are! Be forlorn again! Art is for folks!
press release by John Paul Madera
Article on BVO at TheHippodrome.org!
We believe ART IS FOR FOLKS,
that the PROCESS is EQUAL to the PRODUCT,
that EVERYONE is creative,
and EVERYONE has something to GIVE!
SOME WORDS FROM A. BOGS-
No one would deny being a consumer.
It's something we accept because it's so easy to do.
We consume music, movies, books and many, many other things.
Above being consumers we are creators.
We have the ability to bring things into being. For every ten books we read, we can write our own short story.
For every thirty songs we download we can hum our own tune.
We are more than consumer we are creators!
CREATE! DON'T JUST CONSUME!
If you look close you can see A. Bogs (in a blue suit) waving his hat on the left side of the tree!
Review of our song on Asthmatic Kitty's "Mews Too" compilation:
THE BLACK AND WHITE
But Mews Too most "purr"fect moment comes from new-comers Bogs Visionary Orchestra. Their song "Everybody's Broken" is vibrant and leaves me wonderstruck. This is what great comps are all about. Finding a gem you'd never hear otherwise.
VISIONARY POEM 1
I see your face,
many faces,
some with hope,
some without.
I listen to your tune
before you hum it,
and put words
to your melody.
I sing it,
and you sing with me.
HEAR THE CHEERS,
of many brothers and sisters,
who don't feel alone,
because you took the risk,
and sang out of tune! SOME PLACES TO FIND OUR MUSIC IN CD & MP3:
CDBABY "Maladroit Union"- http://cdbaby.com/cd/bogs2
PAYPLAY- http://payplay.fm/bogs2
CDBABY "Recession Special"- http://cdbaby.com/cd/bogs
PAYPLAY- http://payplay.fm/bogs
CDBABY- Courtier's Lament" (Swampbelly)"http://cdbaby.com/cd/swampbelly
PAYPLAY- http://payplay.fm/swampbelly
coming to rochester next week, you guys got any shows lined up between 2-12th october? looks like i'm missing the one this week @ boulder. see y'all soon!
I guess I would define it by using examples: The Beatles "Hey Jude", John Lennon "Imagine", Tom Waits "Martha", or "Over The Rainbow". There is also a murder ballad genre and Nick Cave has a great album of them appropriately titled "Murder Ballads".
