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.
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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."
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Get Edmund Welles notation (parts/sheet music) for Tooth & Claw,
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Old 2008 news: (Spring 2008) Signal to Noise feature article
July 2008 Opening Night Concert at the International Clarinet Convention 2008
Opening slot on short CA tour with SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM July 6-10, 2008
New 2009 news:
ALL HALLOW'S REED, Big show on October 30, 2009 at Old First Church in SF
Lots of videos on the youtubes of us these days, varied various live shows.
Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet's Friend Space (Top 20)
Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet has 2302 friends.
Impulsive Art’s second release is coming late this October and it’s an extraordinary Compilation Album, dedicated to experimental-electronic music.
“Thesis” features tracks by some of the best artists in the scene, including Andrey Kiritchenko, Mad EP, Keef Baker, Spyweirdos, Larvae, Mobthrow, Atmogat e.t.c.
A Preview of "Thesis", is now available in our myspace player and at: www.impulart.com
Abstractive Noise "Mind Corrupter" EP net-release (cc) [IAd001]
Abstractive Noise, an experimental / music project of Panagiotis Pagonis, offers Impulsive Art the debut release of the new creative common net-releases [IAd001] series.
Experimenting with algorithmic composition and mathematic probabilities, Mind Corrupter build up an extraordinary glitchy, "random", bizarre, broken rhythmical complexity.
Peculiar Pretzelmadness descends on San Francisco Tuesday night at Hemlock Tavern. Stomping and hollering with old and true comrades in arms, Deathat and Corpus Collasum! $7!
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.
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