Smokey Hallyday - Guitars, Vocals, Space and Time Manipulation.
Artimus Maximus - Percussion, Harness, Soup.
Arlo Proust - Keyboards, Ruminations
Nigel Brandwort - Bass Guitar, Bubble and Squeak.
Influences
The Planets by Gustav Holst.
A seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. The Planets is the most-performed composition by an English composer.
The elaborate score of The Planets produces unusual, complex sounds by using some unique instruments and multiples of instruments in the large orchestra (like Mahler's Sixth of 1906), such as three oboes, three bassoons, two piccolos, two harps, bass oboe, two timpani players, glockenspiel, celesta, xylophone, tubular bells, and organ.
Sounds Like
Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di in avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo et in ajudha et in cadhuna cosa, si cum om per dreit son fradra salvar dift, in o quid il me altresi fazet, et ab Ludher nul plaid numquam prindrai, qui, meon vol, cist meon fradre Karle in damno sit.
Born in the swirling maelstrom of the Psychedelic 60's and further warped and twisted by the British Progressive Art-Rock movements of the 70's, Chocolate Overcoat was utterly left behind in the ensuing Disco-Punk-Rave-Post New-Wave-Glam Metal-Grunge-Goth-College-Shoe Gazer-Jam Band scare of the 80's, 90's and early 00's, but has re-emerged to fill a perceived need in today's twee singer-songwriter high-colonic induced blandness for a more challenging, desultory exploration.
