| Member Since | 11/15/2005 | | Band Website | monktail.com | | Band Members | Ensembles Include:
NON GRATA, Special O.P.S., Deal's Number, Shit Orange Horsey, Floss, Johnny + the Primordial Poo, Reptet, Kamigakari, Rusty Nail, The Crazy Halloween Band, Weiss + OPS, The Perfunctory Resonance Band, Flops, Sir Julius Pudding & the Cabbage Foundation, The Wookie Dump Shootout, The Excogitants, tp, Hunt & Peck, Jesus & The Bobcats, Doubletime Lubrication, Open | | Influences | we're generally under them:
AACM, Little Walter, Fela Kuti, L. Subramaniam, George Crumb, William Parker, Captain Beefheart, Luciano Berio, Charles Gayle, Elvis Costello, Gyorgy Ligeti, Sun Ra, Jali Nyama Suso, Fishbone, Tom Waits, Dillinger Escape Plan, Sun City Girls, Andrew Hill, Henry Cowell, The Minutemen, Luigi Nono, AMM, P-Funk, Dick Dale, Ali Akbar Khan, Mingus, Test, Iron Maiden, King Sunny Ade, George Antheil, Cecil Taylor, Morton Feldman, Bird, Bad Brains, FZ, Globe Unity Orchestra, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Albert Ayler, Bob Dylan, Anthony Braxton, Black Sabbath, Alfred Schnittke, Frank Sinatra, Wesley Willis, John Cage, John Zorn, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash | | Sounds Like | cutting your own hair. There are about 20 of us now, cut from every swath of the American musical quilt, and we dont really play jazz, but channel surf through whatever genre or context fits a performance. We're a chamber orchestra that plays jazz, a jazz band that plays metal, a metal band that plays country, a country band that plays funk, a funk band that plays punk, a punk band that plays music, musicians having a good time. Basically, we're the retarded children of art music and were running with scissors. | | Record Label | Monktail Records | | Type of Label | Indie |
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The Monktail Creative Music Concern is a collective of composers, musicians and artists based in Seattle, WA who thrive on the atypical and exigent; the real weirdo stuff.
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