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Released: Sep 12, 2012
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PUFF UP THE VOLUME

TALIBAM!
From New York City
Matt Mottel: synthesizer, voice, electronics
Kevin Shea: drums, voice, electronics
email: talibambam@gmail.com
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On September 12, 2012 Critical Heights released our uninhibited pop/noschoolrap album Puff Up The Volume -- come see us perform it live on May 11th 2013 at All Tomorrows Parties festival in Camber Sands England.


RECORDINGS

  • ..Peeesseye Talibam! - s/t..
    PEEESSEYE + TALIBAM! - s/t     CD + 2xLP w/gatefold (released as a continuous mix CD with no breaks by Invada Records, and as a double LP w/gatefold plus 18 minute bonus track by Smeraldina-Rima Records 2010). Jaime Fennelly (electronics) Chris Forsyth (guitar) Matt Mottel (synthesizer) Kevin Shea (drums) Fritz Welch (drums/electronics/voice).

  • ..TALIBAM! – Cosmoplitude 7″ (released by ESP Disk’ in collaboration with Electric Cowbell Records 2010)..
    TALIBAM! - Cosmoplitude     7" (released by ESP Disk' in collaboration with Electric Cowbell Records 2010). Matt Mottel (synthesizer/voice) Kevin Shea (drums/voice). It's an hours worth of WFMU's eclectic programming distilled down into a three minute 7" (7inches.blogspot.com)

  • ..TALIBAM! WITH ALAN WILKINSON - Dem Ol39 Apple Pie Melodies..
    TALIBAM! WITH ALAN WILKINSON - Dem Ol' Apple Pie Melodies     LP (Bo' Weavil Recordings 2010). Matt Mottel (synthesizer) Kevin Shea (drums) Alan Wilkinson (saxophone).

  • ..TALIBAM! + NE TRAVAILLEZ JAMAIS – split 7″ (Musica per ORgani Caldi Records 2010)..
    TALIBAM! + NE TRAVAILLEZ JAMAIS     - split 7" (Musica per ORgani Caldi Records 2010). The Talibam! song, entitled Sex Chopper, features Matt Mottel (synthesizer/voice) and Kevin Shea (drums/voice).

  • ..Talibam! - Boogie In The Breeze Blocks..
    TALIBAM! - Boogie In The Breeze Blocks     CD (ESP Disk' Records 2009). Matt Mottel (synthesizer/voice) and Kevin Shea (drums/voice) w/guests Tim Dahl, Moppa Elliott, Michael Evans, Peter Evans, Chris Forsyth, Jon Irabagon, Danielle Kuhlmann, Sam Kulik, Robbie Lee, Anders Nillson, Mike Pride, and Jeremy Wilms.

  • ..TALIBAM! DANIEL CARTER - The New Nixon Tapes LP (Roaratorio Records)..
    TALIBAM! & DANIEL CARTER - The New Nixon Tapes     LP (Roaratorio Records). Matt Mottel (synthesizer) Kevin Shea (drums) Daniel Carter (horns) w/guest Ed Bear (feedbacksophone).

  • ..TALIBAM! / Sloppy Seconds / Monosodic / F.M.G - 2XC20 cassette..
    TALIBAM! / Sloppy Seconds / Monosodic / F.M.G     - 2XC20 cassette (Moist Lips Records). The Talibam! song features Matt Mottel (synthesizer) and Kevin Shea (drums) and was recorded live in Tilburg Netherlands.

  • ..TALIBAM! - Chewy Needs His Meat C40 cassette (Stop Scratching Records 2008)..
    TALIBAM! - Chewy Needs His Meat     C40 cassette (Stop Scratching Records 2008). Matt Mottel (synthesizer) Kevin Shea (drums) w/guest Ed Bear (feedbacksophone).

  • ..TALIBAM! - Live + Live = ? C60 cassette (No=Fi Recordings 2008)..
    TALIBAM! - Live + Live = ?     C60 cassette (No=Fi Recordings 2008). Matt Mottel (synthesizer) Kevin Shea (drums).

  • ..TALIBAM! But God Created Woman - split 7 (Holidays Records 2008)..
    TALIBAM! & But God Created Woman     - split 7" (Holidays Records 2008). The Talibam! song, entitled In The Name Of Love, features Matt Mottel (synthesizer) and Kevin Shea (drums) w/guests Anders Nilsson (guitar) Jeremy Wilms (guitar) Ed Bear (feedbacksophone) Mike Pride (vocals).

  • ..TALIBAM! Jealousy Party - split 10 (Released by Wallace Records as part of their PhonoMetak series 2008)..
    TALIBAM! & Jealousy Party     - split 10" (Released by Wallace Records as part of their PhonoMetak series 2008). The Talibam! song, entitled Set In A Wilderness Of Cosmetic Conclusions, features Matt Mottel (synthesizer) and Kevin Shea (drums/percussion/vocals).

  • ..TALIBAM! Wasteland Jazz Unit - split LP (released by Thor39s Rubber Hammer Records as part of their Ecstatic Duo series)..
    TALIBAM! & Wasteland Jazz Unit     - split LP (released by Thor's Rubber Hammer Records as part of their Ecstatic Duo series 2008). The Talibam! song, entitled Geometric Mophometrics of P.P.P.P.P. McNasticals, features Matt Mottel (synthesizer) and Kevin Shea (drums/vocals).

  • ..TALIBAM! – Buns And Gutter CD (Gaffer Records 2007)..
    TALIBAM! - Buns And Gutter     CD (Gaffer Records GR012, 2007). Matt Mottel (synthesizer) Kevin Shea (drums) w/guests Jeremy Wilms (guitar) and Ed Bear (feedbacksophone).

  • TALIBAM! - Power And Terror CDr (re-release of Hungry Hungry Heispheres by Kitty Play Records). Matt Mottel (synthesizer) Kevin Shea (drums) w/guest Ed Bear (feedbacksophone).

  • ..TALIBAM! – Live At Tonic NYC CDr (Blackest Rainbow 2007)..
    TALIBAM! - Live At Tonic NYC     CDr (Limited to 100 hand-numbered hand-made copies. Blackest Rainbow 2007). Matt Mottel (synthesizer) Kevin Shea (drums) with guest Ed Bear (feedbacksophone).

  • ..Talibam! - Ordination Of The Globetrotting Conscripts..
    TALIBAM! - Ordination Of The Globetrotting Conscripts     CD (Azul Discografica Records azd06). Matt Mottel (synthesizer/voice) and Kevin Shea (drums/voice) w/guests Moppa Elliott, Michael Evans, Peter Evans, Jon Irabagon, Sam Kulik, Robbie Lee, Cooper-Moore, Anders Nillson, Ed Bear and Jeremy Wilms.

  • ..TALIBAM! – The Excusable Earthling LP (Pendu Sound Records 2007)..
    TALIBAM! - The Excusable Earthling     LP (Pendu Sound Records 2007). Matt Mottel (synthesizer) Kevin Shea (drums) w/guest Ed Bear (feedbacksophone).

  • ..TALIBAM! / Le Harmacy – Split Cassette Tape C30 (Limited to 50 copies, MT5 TAPES! 2007)..
    TALIBAM! / Le Harmacy     - Split Cassette Tape C30 (Limited to 50 copies, MT5 TAPES! MT500001 2007). Matt Mottel (synthesizer) Kevin Shea (drums) w/guest Ed Bear (feedbacksophone).

  • ..TALIBAM! – Hungry Hungry Hemispheres live on WUOG CDr (Fair School 2006)..
    TALIBAM! - Hungry Hungry Hemispheres live on WUOG CDr (Fair School 2006). Matt Mottel (synthesizer) Kevin Shea (drums) w/guest Ed Bear (feedbacksophone).

  • ..V/A – Getting Rid Of The Glue LP (Pendu Sound 2006)..
    V/A - Getting Rid Of The Glue     LP (w/DIRTY CHURCHES | SPIN-17 | K.P. | BIG A little a | FESSENDEN | EAGER MEEK | MIALESSOT W/ DANIEL CARTER & OLD GHOST | MARIA CHAVEZ | TALIBAM! | EXCEPTER, Pendu Sound, PSR-0016 2006). This comp features a Talibam! song performed by Matt Mottel (synthesizer) Kevin Shea (drums) w/guest Ed Bear (feedbacksophone).

  • ..V/A- Less Self Is More Self Tarantula Hill Benefit 2xCD (Ecstatic Peace 2006)..
    V/A- Less Self Is More Self Tarantula Hill Benefit     2xCD (Ecstatic Peace E#107 2006). This comp features a Talibam! song, entitled You Grandpa!, performed by Matt Mottel (synthesizer) Kevin Shea (drums) w/guest Ed Bear (feedbacksophone).

  • ..TALIBAM! – s/t CDr (Evolving Ear Records 2005)..
    TALIBAM! - s/t     CDr (Evolving Ear Records EE13cdr evolvingear.com 2005) Matt Mottel (synthesizer) Kevin Shea (drums) w/guest Ed Bear (feedbacksophone)




    • Thanks to everyone who has supported our music!     ..

    BIO

    Brooklyn duo Talibam! Are previously known for their avant-jazz, experimental rock leanings, 'Puff Up the Volume' sees Talibam! Turning their considerable talents towards an album of synth-pop-infused, comedy-soaked 'No School' Rap. Having collectively been in bands with members of Battles, TV on the Radio and Grizzly Bear, Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea have joined 'Brooklyn's Finest' and made an album of hook riddled pop star bombast. 'Puff Up the Volume', is Talibam!'s '#NO SCHOOL' Rap debut. They like to say "if you went to rap school you wasted your money". This epic record is chock-full of party anthems and raw emotional verse, solidifying the duo as a skilled production team. Talibam!'s 'Puff Up the Volume' represents the outcome of poetic circumstance. Drummer Kevin Shea's big toe was crushed during a gong accident in 2009 forcing him to play bass drum with his left foot for the rest of a tour and the subsequent recording session engineered by Dirty Projector's touring sound engineer Etienne Foyer in Paris. The circumstance 'liberated' Talibam! From their previous ethos with drummer Kevin Shea bumping a BIG BEAT flavour alongside Matt Mottel's spicy Mini Moog mastery. Look out for the Talibam! #No School Rap Reports online and also their remix work of your favourite artist (maybe).

    WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT TALIBAM!

    "Talibam take that moment in 'Sister Ray' when John Cale decides to kick the shit out of Lou Reed as their starting point. They rock the shit out in every way imaginable: fury and fun, performance and presence. Talibam are a punk Coltrane, noise as affect - everybody in the audience is left smiling." - Drownedinsound.com

    "Their name-- taken from a New York Post headline celebrating American bombings in Afghanistan-- may be a joke, but their music is far from a punchline. Not that it's super-serious either: Most of Talibam!'s songs are rollicking, blood-pumping workouts that surely take a few cases of Red Bull to complete. But these guys have sharp skills and diverse ideas and can do a lot more than just sprint. Their music evokes the raucous party-noise of Hal Russell or the Sun Ra Arkestra, but also the agility of ensembles led by David Ware or William Parker. On top of that, Talibam! adds prog and math-rock flourishes akin to Don Caballero and Battles." - Mark Masters, Pitchfork Media

    "...Talibam! have created an eclectic, muscular rock/noise-inflected Improv all their own." "...things fall apart wonderfully...out of sheer exuberance and pure adrenalin pushing the musicians and the music up to and over the edge." "The energy level is worthy of Borbetomagus, but it spills out in all directions, from demented free noise polka to post-Prog funk chorale...The cumulative effect of it all is pretty mindblowing...Talibam! could well be the most exciting improv outfit you'll hear all year...this is more a point of no return than a point of departure...the view from the cliff top is magnificent." - Dan Warburton, Wire Magazine

    "Like the Sun City Girls before them, Talibam! are musical omnivores and uncanny telepaths. Collectively, they have digested everything from free-jazz, Americana and noise, to Afro-pop, garage and electroacoustic composition and connect the dots between these idioms to create spontaneous and vivid constellations of sound." - FORCED EXPOSURE

    "Lately I've been hearing the terms "skronk," "kronk," "krank," "crunk" and "krump." What do they mean? I don't know. I think this Talibam track is half crunk and half krank. Maybe half spunk and half skronk. It's my favorite song right now. I've been listening to it a lot while playing Word Whomp on my computer and paying my taxes online. For people like me who don't do drugs, I also recommend listening to this while watching QVC." - Marnie Stern (Kill Rock Stars) guest reviewer for PAPER THIN WALLS

    "...Talibam!'s songs fan out and strive to break free of idioms and constraints without losing their ear for beauty or the "natural;' as ballsy as their pan-stylistic maneuvering may be, it's never counterintuitive or forced." - (P Funk) TINY MIX TAPES

    "The music matches the mania of the packaging perfectly as the trio let loose a …blast of sonic sludge that gleefully destroys everything in it's path, as if on a mission." - Edwin Pouncey, WIRE MAGAZINE

    "Floating between free jazz and no wave, Talibam! conjures the holy ghosts of New York City's musical underground while providing a fresh, albeit sweaty, perspective on the politics of noise." - PRINTED MATTER

    Recent Reviews and Features: http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2009/08/14/agitated-atmosphere-talibam-boogie-in-the-breeze-blocks/ http://www.flyglobalmusic.com/fly/archives/europe_reviews/talibam_boogie_in_the_breeze_b.html http://pressairplay.espdisk.com/archives/4955 http://www.junkmedia.org/index.php?i=2543 http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2009/08/14/agitated-atmosphere-talibam-boogie-in-the-breeze-blocks/ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/arts/dance/07punk.html http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=33465 http://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5139 www.villagevoice.com/2009-03-04/music/viva-talibam/ http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Talibam?var_recherche=talibam! http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4135427 http://rottenmeats.blogspot.com/2008/10/jesus-and-magic-ghost-team-brick.html http://www.eventiesagre.it/Eventi_Musicali/21014407_TALIBAM+italian+tour+2008.html http://tinymixtapes.com/Suffering-Be-Gone-Rebirth-Commence http://counterfnord.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/september-17th-2008-talibam-rhys-chatham-zun-zun-egui-peeesseye-corridors-gala-drop/ http://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3781..

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