Mad Hatter, March Hare, dormouse, alice, cheshire cat, mock turtle, gryhpon, walrus & carpenter, oysters & the beastiary of jabberwocky.
Influences
lewis carroll, classic rock, psychedelia, hip hop, japanese theatre, glam rock, international maggott theatre, spaz, katabatik, the vulcan, muppets, beatles, jefferson airplane, digital underground, disney, svankmeyer, mushrooms, insects, animals & mythological beasts.
Sounds Like
listen to the mp3s, it should sound at least something like that, though it may sound different at the show due to the level of worldliness of the storyteller.
culminated from an early love of the writings of Lewis Carroll (who was also a favorite literature of my household), into a rock opera which features his effect on popular music & some of the poetry from the book set to music of my own device.
it's first performancefirst show was january 27, 2004 @ Van Kleef's in Oakland. It was quite a production inluding the queen's concert, tea party trio, suitcase puppet show of walrus & carpenter and the jabberwock monstermasks. twas a mad evening of fun.
the next was a one man show for an intimate audience of close friends.
it's third year running was the mad tea party with a book & c.d. to accompany.
the 4th year is set to be in co-operation with the lucid dream lounge. here was my original Idea :I'ts a glam rock opera, Spacey sci-fi, I like ziggy style, and kabuki japanese cats, bunraku, noh theatre. this is a description of a young lewis caroll, in some fanciful asian opium den, being served and having the hallucination that he watered down to create alice's adventures in wonderland. focusing on the bestiary of "Jabberwok", the white rabbit, the tea party, and a god-like presence of the cheshire (cat).
seeking performers, puppet craft, and hosts for this would bee epic of psychedelic performance art.
follow thee white rabbit...
the set so far
red queen (an original)
white rabbit(+new verses)
beautiful soup
lobster quadrille
the voice of the lobster
the walrus & the carpenter (to music)
I am the walrus (mutant version)
the humpty song (mix of humpty dance with parts of eggman & the original poem)
jabberwocky(grunge version & surrealist electronic version)
to all tomorrows parties
the inverse set also features some surprizes from the collective of songwriters (the likes of the hobo gobbelins, sourmash hug band & accordion plague)
http://Cheshire-rockopera.tribe.net
determined to produce this piece year after year as long as I am able & some what supported by my peers.
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Please let me introduce about my new track, “The Amata (Visions in the Sky)”. Amata means “Many” in Japanese, and “Eternity” in Thai language.
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・This track freely changes the tempo, like BPM 170 → 40 → 190 → (stacks 2 or 4) → 170 → 40.
・The main melody(4/4 rythum) is like classic music's one, but the low part(3/4 rythum) is like jazz-pop's one.
・In the latter half, this track becomes spacy, like 80's progressive hard rock・・・but I only used a piano sound. It will show you what are "visions". Raindrops, comets, clouds・・・Every image will be right.
Please let me take your spaces
・・・I made a new track called "A Order in Ripples".
・Finally this track reachs "Chopin meets Hard Rock", with only piano & drums.
・I used 3/4 time & 7/8 time besides 4/4 time in this track, but I tried not to be a show-off man
・・・so maybe you don't notice.
・This track starts with 170 BPM, but it slowly accelerates & finally it reachs over 220 BPM.
・This track contains two exact oppsites・・・one is very complicated but another is very simple.
・This track is very short, only 2.07 minutes.
・The name of this track briefly means its characteristic. At the end of this track, the order comes out. What's "A Order in Ripples"? You will easilly find the answer.
Maybe it rouses Bashou's famous Haiku, "Fulu-ike ya (古池や) …".
Let me know your impressions if you have time ('x')ﾉｼ
Hey, it has been a long time since I saw you last.
I uploaded a new track, the master take of "Alexander". I changed plays of the base & a piano solo. The letter is the section of my favorite(BPM is about 174).
