Timb Harris (violin/trumpet) Jason Schimmel (guitar/banjo/keyboards/vocals) Tim Smolens (upright and electric bass/vocals) Kevin Kmetz (Tsugaru Shamisen/guitar/keyboards) Adam Stacey (accordion/keyboards/clavinet)
and Lee Smith (drums/percussion)
"Making the Palace DVD has been Estradasphere's most fulfilling artistic collaboration thus
far. We all felt collectively energized to challenge peoples definition of: "band," "live show," "album," and "movie." In our view these are all unnecessary distinctions. Our
response has been to constantly push for higher standards in musicianship, production, and storytelling.
The DVD is finally coming out Oct. 2nd and we just moved to Seattle to start a new multimedia
recording studio/performance space.
We're looking forward to meeting lots of classical, jazz, and folk musicians for use in future large ensemble recordings from Estradasphere and side projects. We are sitting on a lot of great recordings for future release and are planning a new show and hitting the road later this year opening for Amanda Palmer from the Dresden Dolls. "
videos from Palace of Mirrors Live DVD Smuggled MutationUnicorns & RainbowsWar Dance for Wooden Indians
Sounds Like
a Psychedelic-Sci-fi... Gypsy-Metal-Jazz... Epic-Cinema-Thon
Estradasphere's "Palace of Mirrors Live" (2007 DVD) marks their second release since signing with The End Records in 2006. The Palace DVD's cinematic music and imagery connote a narrative that cuts across time, space, and genre. The line between cinema and album have been freshly blurred...
"Palace of Mirrors Live" is a psychedelic-sci-fi-gypsy-metal-jazz epic performed by the six
musicians of Estradasphere, a live-cinema projectionist, and an innovative visual team. As the themes of the music associate with the enigmatic video projections, a dynamic film
is created in which the members of Estradasphere are both the characters and the soundtrack orchestra. The mind melting Palace feature is counterbalanced by an entire
opening set of 60's foreign/domestic film music, cartoon and bebop jazz, anachronistic Classical music interpretations, channeling of a non-existant American truck commercial,
classic Estradasphere Gypsy Metal, and 50's Gospel favorites. Among the interpreted
composers are Raymond Scott, Nino Rota, Frederic Chopin, Camille Saint-Saëns, Bud
Powell, Sam Cooke, and Bernard Herrmann.
Estradasphere's diverse instrumental and stylistic palette enables them to execute a vast array of orchestrations and even forge entirely new genres such as "Bulgarian Surf," "Romanian Gypsy-Metal," and "Spaghetti Eastern." After forming in Santa Cruz, California
in 1999, Estradasphere's first three studio albums were released on Trey Spruance's (Mr.
Bungle) Mimicry Records. Members of Estradasphere have also recorded and performed
with Spruance's current project, Secret Chiefs 3. Estradasphere's four studio albums, three
live concert DVD's, six international tours, and ongoing "psychedelic-cinema-thon" concerts
have earned them a loyal and growing following worldwide.
Nooirax Producciones y Feiticeira.org te traen de nuevo la gran experiencia de ver en directo a la increible e inusual banda SECRET CHIEFS 3, comandados por Trey Spruance ex-miembro de Mr. Bungle y Faith No More.
Despues de su primera visita el pasado Septiembre, la banda de San Francisco vuelve con una nueva formación y un nuevo set list para presentar un show asombroso y único que no defraudará a nadie.
El nuevo show estará dividido en tres partes. Una parte incial centrada en el surf rock, otra segunda parte ambientada en su parte mas tradicional y étnica; y por último, una selección de grandes éxitos y clásicos de la banda. Además estarán presentando su último disco, que ha sido editado bajo una de las siete formaciones que existen dentro de Secret Chiefs 3: Traditionalists.
Además, en Madrid les acompañarán la banda local Tinnitia, grandes defensores del sonido Mr. Bungle y Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, quienes preparan la grabación de su primer disco y nos presentarán algunos de sus nuevos temas.
¿Estais preparados para SECRET CHIEFS 3? Si su actuación el pasado Septiembre en la sala Ritmo y Compás fue abrumadora, esta vez no será para menos!
i wish i could go back in time and see u guys when u came to asheville. I can't believe u played at bobos of all places. that place is full of posers and pretentious assholes. they don't even have a stage. but alas i wish i hadn't missed it :(
Hi there! Just a tiny message to say I love you (without deseases....) and you changed my musical growing forever... Thanks a lot for this, I will never be grateful enough... I hope I will see you here, in France one day or another! Enjoy, bye from a french guy. ++
'Smuggled Mutations' rocks (love your bass player, accordionist and violin- ok, all of you then!) I thought you had dubbed over Taraf, but then saw a video of you playing live... hats off to you my cyber friends!
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