CLAMBO a.k.a Paul Feitzinger-- Clarinet, Drums, Percussion, Circuit Bending, Accordion, Laptop, Synthesizer, Electronic Devices, Production, Programming, Rubber Chickens;
PULCINELLA a.k.a Colin Sanderson-- Guitar, Tapes, Laptop, Percussion, Analogue Synthesizer, Electric Harp, Thai Mouth Organ, Turntables, Electronic Devices, Ventriloquism Dummies;
***GUEST COLLABORATORS***
Hope Bowers-- Pecussion;
Joe Gleixner-- Turntables, Percussion;
Dave Kadden-- Oboe;
Chris Czubay-- Cello;
Shane Lessa-- Video
Influences
Gong, No-Neck Blues Band, Wolf Eyes, Tony Conrad, Magma, Don Caballero, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Faust, Pauline Oliveros, My Cat Is An Alien, Residents, Acid Mothers Temple, Pink Floyd, Terry Riley, Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, John Zorn, Smegma, Sun Ra, Can, Ennio Morricone, Ikue Mori, Henry Cow, Parliment-Funkadelic, KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT, Plastic People of The Universe, Arthur Brown, Boredoms. Performance Art: Paul McCarthy, Fluxus, Futurism, Dada, Alfred Jarry, Richard Foreman, schlocky b-movies, The Kipper Kids, Carolee Schneemann.
Sounds Like
"The world is really made of love, according to Paul Feitzinger and Colin Sanderson, the two clowns behind the experimental psychedelic musical freakshow called Manburger Surgical. But you would never know it from listening to their patently absurd, skull-fucking super-blend of computer glitches, warped digital hysteria and carefully manipulated ventriloquism. The tricks in this Brooklyn group's satchel of lunatic sound(s) provokes something more than romantic idealism, more than sappy emotion. And whatever that sensation is, whatever you want to name it, it kicks you in the eustachian tubes and bursts through your alimentary canal like the finest Punk of old.
These “songs” are an interconnected cornucopia of drones, blasts and spurious chatters from what can only be imagined as ankle-biting robotic court jesters fed up with their creators."--Kotori Magazine
Paul Feitzinger and Colin Sanderson were both students at Marymount Manhattan College where they met in a songwriting class in the fall of 2006. The two immediately felt a musical kinship and prided themselves on producing some of the weirder "songs" to come out of the class (e.g. Colin ended up writing a 11 minute socio-political satire entitled "Cheese Wars Parts 1 and 2" for his final project, and Paul constructed a piece out of the sound of computer glitches). Colin hooked Paul up with his friend Dave Kadden, and the three commenced a series of jam sessions over the course of a year that would prove to be the seeds to Manburger Surgical. When Dave left for a year long ethnomusicological sojourn to South East Asia, Paul and Colin decided to forge out on their own and form a proper band. The name Manburger Surgical comes from a surgical supply store named Marburger Surgical that Colin would pass by on the way to his guitar instructor's studio, which he consistently read wrong out of the corner of his eye. Since the fall of 2007, Paul and Colin have been working under that name, and have constructed and conceptualized a string of recordings and concerts which speak to their love of psychedelia, devil-may-care experimentalism, performance art, ventriloquism and puppetry, free improvisation, progressive rock, theater, and all around freaky good vibes.
Indeed last night was fun; we shall do again soon.
Manburger makes you question which cosmic realm you are in and everything you have learned hither-too the current moment and then you realize.... there is no current moment.
Is Ra Sol Ka "industrial-liminoid" or "primitivist-liminal"? The "liminal" state is characterized by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy. One's sense of identity dissolves to some extent, bringing about disorientation. Liminality is a period of transition where normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and behavior are relaxed - a situation which can lead to new perspectives.The Liminoid is considered an update of the concept of Liminality for societies after the Industrial Revolution, which are marked by the distinction of work and leisure. According to Victor Turner, the Liminoid is marked by communitas, a form of egalitarian community spirit, and can be considered an “institutional capsule or pocket which contains the future of social developments of societal change”. Based on these definitions, you might say that the music and art of RaSol Ka and my other band Pea are the result of "industrial-liminoid" activities/ rituals because we live in Escondido, CA.
But you might call it "primitivism-liminal" if you consider and combine the fact that we get "liminal" and our goal is to find a beautiful place where we will live and love outside of the "system". We'll have organicly grown superfoods and medicines (the best the world has to offer), create amazing handmade clothes, homes, furniture, musical instruments. We'll use clean free energy generators, solar, wind , water energy to power uplifting, educating, and healing technologies. We will have incredible teachers knowledgable in medicine,yoga, biology, Ayurveda, martial arts, physics, astronomy, mathematics, internal alchemy, philosophy, shamanism, physical therapy, painting, drawing, writing, singing, dancing, cooking, music, electrical engineering, gardening
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