Dave "the Dolphin" O'Brien - Keys,
Tom "the Walrus" Ward - Saxes,
Tom "the Fish-Cake" Challenger - Saxes,
Jonathan "the Turtle" Bratoeff - Guitar strings,
Spencer "the Seal" Brown - Basses
Guy "the Starfish" Wood - Drums,
Etkilendikleri
Jazz, 70's fusion, M-Base, Funk, Heavy Rock and whatever else they can get their fins into.
We have an ALBUM OUT NOW. You can buy it for the modest sum of £10.99 with free shipping worldwide from here...
http://www.jazzcds.co.uk/artist_id_959/cd_id_1220
Right. I’m fed up of being modest. Everyone who’s reviewed us we’re amazing. A number of our fans rate us as their very favourite band, and our gigs the best they have ever seen. We have been tipped as "Big in 2008" in two major publications at the end of last year, and our last reviewer tipped us for a mercury nomination, so I feel I have the right to say, with little fear of contradiction, we are quite good.
Therefore, if you are a promoter, you’re reading this, and you like us too, PLEASE BOOK US, as all of us have little time to annoy you with unsolicited phone calls. We have gone down equally well on rock stages at open air festivals as we have at jazz clubs, and punters aren’t as frightened of us as you might think.
Here are some other facts about us. I’ll be brief...
We were WINNERS of the PETER WHITTINGHAM AWARD for cutting edge jazz in 2006.
We have been working extensively with the visual artists Dandelion and Burdock (www.dandelion-burdock.com), on extended, interactive, especially commissioned works.
You can check out what else Dave O’Brien, Guy Wood (wampa), Jonthan Bratoeff and Tom Challenger are up to if you check out their pages in "my top friends"
The designer of the Porpoise Corpus logo and album artwork was Robert Shuttleworth, who changes his profile name weekly, but can be found as friend number 2 on the list below.
Our reviews can be seen in the blogs section above. Here are some other less relevant quotations:
"If man’s hands had grown as flukes, the moral might run, he would still be a philosopher, but he would not have the devastating power to wreak his thought on the body of the world. Instead, he would have lived and wandered like the porpoise, his home the currents and winds and oceans; intelligent, but forever only an awed and curious observer of unknown wreckage falling through the blue lights of eternity."
- Net Profit, by Michael J Becker and Shelby Sampson
"Epics," said Hagbard. "They’re mad for epics. They have their whole story for the past forty thousand years in epic form. No books, no writing - how could they handle pens with their fins, you know? All memorization. Which is why they favor poetry. And their poems are marvelous, but you must spend years studying their language before you know that. Our computer turns their works into doggerel. It’s the best it can do. When I have the time, I’ll add some circuits that can really translate poetry from one language to another. When the Porpoise Corpus is translated into human languages, it will advance our culture by centuries or more. It will be as if we’d discovered the works of a whole race of Shakespeares that had been writing for forty millennia."
"On the other hand," said Howard, "your civilizations may be demoralized by culture shock."
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
"'Mr. Ears' sounds immense. Great solos, beautiful touch and wonderfully melodic...and the writing is brilliant." - Laurence Cottle
Hey! My world jazz fusion debut album 'Mr. Ears' is available to buy from TODAY! Just visit www.caimarlegarcia.com to purchase and for more information on the album and me!
The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show returns to the airwaves on Resonance 104.4 FM this Saturday 5th September between noon and 1.30pm. Today's broadcast is in conjunction with PESTIVAL * With contributions from the Mosquito expert Dr. James Logan, an essay from the author Tim Burrows (on the subject of insects in rock and pop), plus live music from the London based alt/art duo Plug, who will debut new insect related material especially written for Hello GoodBye.
* PESTIVAL is a festival celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect. Pestival 2009 runs from 3rd-6th September @ The Southbank Centre and is jam-packed with insect-inspired talks and debates, as well as comedy, music, walks, workshops, installations and experiments. For further information, please visit: http://pestival.org
4-7 of June - FINDAMORALE FESTIVAL 2009, HOXTON, LONDON.
with SUPER double bills from Paris on 5th and 6th of June featuring
1) - HADRIEN FERAUD (Bireli Lagrene, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea) and RUMEURS
2) - LINLEY MARTHE ( Joe Zawinul, Mino Cinelu, Dave Liebman, Trilok Gurtu, Richard Galliano) Project. You will have a rare chance to see these two bands on one night for the price of one!
Only at CHARLIE WRIGHT'S INTERNATIONAL (45 Pitfield Street, N1 6DA). For more info call 07918635328 or go www.myspace.com/charliewrights
Don’t miss out on the last Bad Juju Lounge before the summer! Hosted by the infamous Texas Chainsaw Orchestra: a 13 piece “Nightmare Before Christmas meets Rocky Horror Picture Show” spectacular! Saturday 23 May @ The Gaff, Holloway Rd, London
The Bad JuJu Lounge!
It's always a night to dismember!
Featuring: The Texas Chainsaw Orchestra and Des Deville (aka Des O’Connor-compere) .. With DJs El Nino DaveDisaster and special guests
I'm living in London at the moment... thanks for the comment bro, actually I was listening your music and found it really good, remembered me some things of Hatfield and the North, one of my favorites groups jeje... keep me posted about gigs... looking forward to see a live performance soon Hasta Luego Raul
"At last a follow up to Janette Mason's sparkling debut as leader. Alien Left Hand ....was well worth the wait…” Production **** Performance**** -- BBC Music Magazine
“…an album fizzing with fresh ideas and delights, an exhilarating musical journey .. with brilliantly original writing and inspired playing…” -- Helen Mayhew
"Every track from the rhythmic ‘NY Cab Ride’ and restless ‘4 Wheel Drive’ to the brooding ‘Mae’s Song’ has a terrific hook but it’s the way Mason switches tempo and moods that makes ALH great fun. " -- Diva Magazine