John Madera: vocals, guitars, bass, percussion, and odd noises
Jeff Bloom: drums
Kareem Goubran: bass
Influences
Spinning the dial of the Radiohead, the Talking Heads pour some Cream into a Buckethead. Jimi screams about his Bad Brains then coughs up a Fishbone in Living Colour. A Public Enemy spreads Pearl Jam on some Stones rolling into Muddy Waters. The Police are called and frisk the Innocent Criminals. Doctor Funkenstein and Doctor Feelgood talk about The Cure for Jane’s Addiction because she still runs to her Chemical Brothers. Stepping on the shoulders of Beatles they still sink in Quicksand. Sonic Youth plant the Roots in the Soundgarden. She draws A Perfect Circle with her Nine Inch Nails. Eating Red Hot Chili Peppers while Smashing Pumpkins he shouts, “Faith No More! Let’s Return to Forever!” and “Go ask Alice In Chains for a song of freedom!” Al Green tells Otis Redding that he’s feeling Kind Of Blue. Then James Brown paints it black. Watching David Lynch At The Drive-in he Rages Against The System of a Down. They argue whether to Let It Be or Let It Bleed. Opening the Doors of the Temple of the Dog he finds the Last Poets swimming in Muddy Waters. She consults the Weather Report and thinks aloud, “Looks like Love and Rockets in the air.” He shakes his head and says, “the answer my friend is Blowing In The Wind.” He climbs a Tower of Power then calls the Tribal Tech to check The Meters. Tom Waits while Bill Withers. Neil Young says he hopes he dies before he gets old. She kisses his Flaming Lips. He watches her Ghost Dog take Giant Steps and whispers, “Instant Karma’s going to get you” then reaches Nirvana. In Bermuda, under a Marquee Moon, she reflects on her love triangle with Squarepusher and A Perfect Circle and turns on the Television on the Radiohead. On the next Black Sabbath he writes a Song of Despair but on Sunday Bloody Sunday says Nevermind.
Sounds Like
Record Label
"The bottle I'm in has no label." -Capt. Beefheart
MOTHER FLUX formed in New York City as a rock power trio by songwriter and guitarist John Madera with three goals in mind. First, to create energetic music fusing rock, funk, and noise. Second, to hit all the dives with songs, extended improvisations, and poetry that bordered on invocations of holy spirits. And finally, release an album of original music that rocks the head and shakes the rump. In January 2007, Mother Flux releases their first full-length album entitled: Divine Day Formula.
Mother Flux’s music easily fits in shuffle play with the likes of The Eels, Rainer Maria, Sparta, and Built To Spill along with the Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Jane’s Addiction, and the Smashing Pumpkins, while segueing seamlessly into Godzilla rock like Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath. They serve a mixed drink of Seattle grudge music, Sixties freakflag flying, heart-on-sleeve ballads, New York Noise, and machines making love.
Award-winning poet John Madera’s credits include playing with John Legend’s keyboardist Chris Rob, D’Angelo’s touring guitarist Jef Lee Johnson, Dub Trio's Stu Brooks, My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden, Wheatus' Gerard Hoffmann, Bogs Visionary Orchestra’s Alex Talavera, Poet Sage Rader, Dub Affair and Noirkestra’s Benoir, Victor Wooten's drummers J.D. Blair and Derico Watson, and Indian classical music violinist Ganesh Prasad. John is equally adept at guitar, voice, bass, and drums and counts Prince, Stevie Wonder, and Dave Grohl as multi-instrumentalist paragons. His soloing is an amalgam of the caterwaul shrieks of Vernon Reid and Sonny Sharrock, the layered terraces of Mahavishu Orchestra’s John McLaughlin, and the searing blues of Jimi Hendrix, or at least he thinks so. A schoolteacher from the West Coast, who moonlights as a rockabilly punk, said John's vocals sound like a cross between the Dead Kennedy's Jello Biafra and Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker. Huh? Must be that excessive melisma thing going on.
Mother Flux's cd Divine Day Formula is available now at cdbaby.com.
MOTHER FLUX: Divine Day Formula
Like a soul ripped from its body, transforming into a thousand fireflies, disappearing into the clouds, then falling down as raindrops or...Rock and Roll: You know, the avalanche kind.
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