Cornelius Boots, Jonathan Russell, Aaron Novik, Jeff Anderle
Influences
Melt-Banana---Tool---Laurie Anderson---John Cage---David Lynch---Ed Wood---the Borneo Horns---Jimmy Scott---Emperor---Fishbone---Miles Davis---Eric Dolphy---Pink Floyd---Eddie Harris---Wendy Carlos---Primus---Spinal Tap---Andy Kaufmann---Black Sabbath---Journey---Sepultura---Tom Waits---Praxis---Syd Barrett---Cream, Pearl Jam, Pearl Bailey, Bailey's Irish Cream---Steve Reich---Bethlehem---James Brown---Sly---Beethoven---The Pixies---Fats Waller---Ian Anderson, Ian Underwood & Uncle Meat, plus Don Van Vliet---Angelo Badalamenti---Bernard Herrman---Screamin Jay Hawkins---Kwai Chang Caine---Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel---Josquin de Prez---David Bowie---Mork & Mindy---Bruce Lee---Chaka Khan---Attila---Bill Shatner---Stevie Wonder---Shaolin Kung Fu---Rasputin---Rasputina---Quetzalcoatl---Yoshinobu Taniguchi & Michael Chikuzen Gould---Sanchez Brothers---RL Burnside & Junior Kimbrough---magnesium & Faun Tumnus
Sounds Like
Black Sabbath, Howlin Wolf, Wendy Carlos, and Roger Waters on four bass clarinets (this means 5 octaves on a big reed) heavy riffs, precision, vibrational combinatoriality. The Law of Octaves will be satisfied.
The world’s only composing group of four bass clarinetists, Edmund Welles are purveyors of Heavy Chamber Music. Combining equal parts from jazz, classical, and rock, guided by the deep sonority and expressive range of the bass clarinet. Muzak for conspiracy theorists, songs of Lunacy & Purpose. Neo-gothic subterranean pseudo-new music and de-jazzed riff rock. This kind of "style" list can be challenging (i.e annoying) to read, I know, but the sound of this group is, as objectively as possible, very hard to describe using conventional terms and genres.
It’s a lot of bass clarinet, it’s heavy and driving, dense yet accessible.
The debut album, Agrippa’s 3 Books, was released in August 2005. A3B was inspired by occult philosophy and heavy metal music; the sound production was done by sound alchemist Oz Fritz (Bill Laswell, Tom Waits, Primus) and the deluxe packaging was done by Theresa Wong (graphic designer, [s]avant cellist, amplified bicycle performer).
The new album is out now and it has 12 originals on it, assisted in the audio by Myles Boisen and with the paintings on the covers by Chako Chan.
--> CDBABY LINK for EDMUND WELLES: Agrippa’s 3 Books -->
CD Baby says:"Never have you heard the clarinet take on so much attitude, so much angst, so much personality. Mixing in styles and approaches from contemporary classical writing to jazz to just good old rock ’n roll licks, Edmund Welles’s album, "Agrippa’s 3 Books," wins the award for capturing the most imagination and making the most out of one instrument family. Just listen."
-------> CDBABY LINK for EDMUND WELLES: Tooth & Claw--->
Pick up the latest issue of Signal to Noise to read more about us (Spring 2008)
Just added to summer dates: Opening Night Concert at the International Clarinet Convention 2008
Opening slot on short CA tour with SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM July 6-10, 2008
While our band website is being redone by Clint Thorne, take some time off and float
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Hi, I'm pleased to announce that "Toughts of Rabbits Are Rabbits" album is finally OUT and it's available on iTunes at a very special price. Just click on the image here below to be redirected on iTunes:
Our first album "King of the Universe " is available on Brennus website! YESSSSS! A fucking metal album ! Enjoy yourself and get on with it ! http://www.brennus-music.com/boutique
Hey……… Thanks for being our friend over the years…... We're about to release in a few weeks our new 5th CD….”SIGNS” Have a preview listen and a look at our new myspace face lift for the promo for it..... The Streamliners sending you some good vibes for 2009.
Ah, you guys are so amazing. Bass clarinet will always be my favorite of all the instruments I play - I hope someday to be involved in a group similar to this.
Hey guys! It was great to see you play those last two nights; you are all truly amazing. And again I must say that it was truly an honor to play with you all. Thank you for that. Maybe we can do that again on other tunes when you come down here again or if I find myself in the bay area. It was really a great experience for me.
Oh, and I'll be sure to let y'all know when I someday finally get a new horn...I NEED A LOW C!!!
Alright, you convinced me. I'm going to take the train up there to San Francisco, see you guys at this years Switchboard Music Festival, and somehow figure out where to sleep without paying money for it.
Or just not sleep, and slowly integrate myself with the city itself until I shed my humanity entirely and become some kind of communal organism/building type of entity.
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