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Porpoise Corpus
Progressive / Jazz / Experimental

"Album out now - no lower than 4 stars so far."



London
United Kingdom

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Last Login:  7/15/2009
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   Porpoise Corpus: General Info
Member Since7/10/2006
Band Websitewww.porpoisecorpus.com
Band MembersDave "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,
InfluencesJazz, 70's fusion, M-Base, Funk, Heavy Rock and whatever else they can get their fins into.
Record LabelF-IRE Presents...
Type of LabelIndie


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   About Porpoise Corpus
Hello there,

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

Thanks for stopping by!

 


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Raul Monsalve





Jul 8 2009 1:38 AM





Moose Factory





Jul 6 2009 10:44 AM

Thanks for playing last night everyone! It was a great event thanks to your efforts.
Raul Monsalve





Jun 9 2009 2:35 PM


Passing Clouds





Jun 3 2009 11:34 AM

jazz @ Charlie Wrights International





May 28 2009 1:12 PM


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.
Linley Marthe and Francis Lassus
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

The Texas Chainsaw Orchestra


Online Now!


May 19 2009 1:44 PM

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



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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

plus guest performers:
Joe Black
Betsy Rose 


www. texaschainsaw. co. uk



Raul Monsalve





Apr 8 2009 11:30 PM

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
Ben MacDonald





Mar 29 2009 11:09 AM

Feckin great music guys!!!
Jimmy Norden





Mar 25 2009 2:15 AM

cheers man! must have had some serious time on my hands compiling that influences list!! got to sort this myspace thing out.
how you doing?
Moose Factory





Mar 9 2009 3:12 PM

Here’s the very first Moose Factory Podcast:

You can subscribe to it here: Subscribe
Please have a listen, download it, and leave comments.

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Moose Factory





Mar 2 2009 8:31 PM

Metamorphic and Normal Gimbel FREE!!! on Wednesday, March 4 at the Pangea Project, 72 Stamford Hill from 8pm.
Cheers!
Moose Factory





Feb 28 2009 12:58 PM

Sorry if image is squished by myspace!

£5 in advance from here

Rohan Theatre Band - If Tom Waits was a 19th century central European wandering minstrel

Avatars - Down and dirty pyschobilly

Teeth - Crazy electro-punk

Trevor Watts +





Feb 26 2009 3:54 PM

Hi there - I'm 'Jazz Musician of the Day' (..don't mean to blow my own horn www. allaboutjazz. com Hope you are well, Trev x
jazz @ Charlie Wrights International





Feb 9 2009 2:42 PM

THIS WEEK---11th,12th & 13th of February at Charlie Wright's International.
Only European dates!


CHRIS DAVE TRIO (U.S.A.
)


chris dave


featuring


CHRIS "Daddy" DAVE (Mos Def, Erykah Badu, Robert Glasper)


FOLEY (Miles Davis, Bootsy Collins, Prince)


and special guest


AMIT CHATTERJEE (Joe Zawinul, Carlos Santana, Dave Liebman)


Tickets from www. ticketweb. co. uk or from the venue.

Moose Factory





Feb 8 2009 1:36 PM

....................
Syd Arthur





Feb 6 2009 3:41 PM



Syd x
Janette Mason





Jan 19 2009 1:30 AM

You’re invited…

ALIEN LEFT HAND

The eagerly awaited follow up to
Din and Tonic


By Janette Mason.


CD LAUNCH

Wednesday, 28 January 2009 7:30PM
606 Club
90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10
www. 606club. co. uk
+44 (0)20 7352 5953

The Janette Mason Trio - with an acoustic lineup featuring Asaf Sirkis on Drums and Dudley Phillips on Bass, plus special guests. Not to be missed!!

(Look…I know it’s a Wednesday night…come straight from work and have a few drinks. It would be great to see you!!)

Happy New Year!!!!

Janette

Med ALH CD Cover

Click HERE for more info or to purchase.

Alien Left Hand -- What the critics say:

"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

CD Available 26 January 2009
Moose Factory





Jan 13 2009 4:56 PM


REMEMBER!! Click on this and it's only £5!!

Syd Arthur





Nov 19 2008 12:50 PM

Furthur Weekender (Animated) Syd x
jazz @ Charlie Wrights International





Nov 13 2008 1:20 AM

2x Grammy Award winner

Horacio "El Negro" Hernández

and his band ITALUBA playing two exclusive gigs at Charlie Wright's

on Sat 15th and Sun 16th of Nov as part of London Jazz Festival.

Horacio El Negro Hernandezs ITALUBA playing on Nov 15 and 16th,2008

Horacio Hernandez has worked with McCoy Tyner and guitar icon Santana, yet he's revered for his ability to play four different rhythms at once in virtually any style.

YOU ARE WELCOME!
Moose Factory





Nov 6 2008 11:53 AM

Macha Gharibian





Aug 19 2008 6:05 PM

Hey David,
Very sincerily, I Love Warp Speed... Great music here.
It was a great pleasure to meet you in oslo, I wish I could see you again in paris or London, we keep in touch.
Batchigs from Paris
The Old Dance School





Aug 8 2008 1:51 AM

Hello! The Old Dance School here.
Just stopping by to thank you for your friendship and to let you know about our lovely, brand new website and our debut studio album Based On A True Story.
It's just been released and is available right now - stop by theolddanceschool. com to pick up your copy, hear preview tracks and much more.

"...If you haven't heard how great they are yet, you will.
"

- Joe Broughton [The Albion Band, Folk Ensemble, Dempsey/Broughton, Feast of Fiddles]

Best wishes,

The Old Dance School

Ink and Light





Jul 18 2008 10:16 PM

It's treat time again at Ink and Light!

Bad Science at the comm:UNITY night, Komedia, Brighton



Bad Science's page


And Samsara from a little earlier in the evening



Samsara's page

Hope you enjoy. Come and join us on you tube
www. youtube. com/inkandlight

Or visit our myspace for a whole load of videos, photos and artwork.
INK AND LIGHT

Whole Schebang





Jul 10 2008 9:53 AM

Thanks. Enjoying your (tortoisey)sound.
love whole schebang
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