Vector images and album artwork by the lovely and semi-talented Kat.
Previous members whom you will encounter when listening to Renfield music here and elsewhere include Brett Banducci on viola, Samantha Blake on alto and tenor saxaphone, Dorian Cheah on electric violin, Brian Collingsworth on electric guitar, Lisa Edelman on trumpet and Oliver May on bass trombone. Jeret Ochi aka ZUGAROBO has been our illustrator, designer, and webmaster for many years and continues to shock and amaze. Thank you, each and every one of you. We love you all.
Influences
Frank Zappa, Fishbone, Mr. Bungle, Rush, Primus, Cab Calloway, Tom Waits, (Mystic Knights of the) Oingo Boingo, Cramps, Gogol Bordello, System of a Down, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Dead Kennedys, John Zorn, Leigh Bowery, Bjork, The Police, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Fela Kuti, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Double D Nose, David Bowie, Gene Rayburn, Guy Smiley, Steranko, Tool, Thomas Dolby, A Perfect Circle, Blue Meanies, Prince, Ted Knight, Harry Houdini, Mike Caro, PT Barnum, Geoff Edwards, ancient Persian mathematicians, Lloyd Kaufman, Andy Kaufman, Batman
Renfield is an alliance of musical daredevils who have dedicated their art to your eventual entertainment. Operating in and around Los Angeles since 1995, Renfield has watched culture ossify as the stars go out one by one and only the jazzcore remain. A calcified underbelly has been cultured by one too many squirms through the dirt and now these fatal fantasists bear no weaknesses. Born of and for the stage, Renfield exhorts you to join us at a live performance as the digital medium can only carry a fraction of the frenzy that is manufactured to manipulate your soul.
For your viewing pleasure, the "Take it Away" video directed by Ezra Buzzington:
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We hope you're doing fine and want to let you know that there're some updates on our page :)
Feel free to listen to "Synaptogenesis" and "Enter Dystopia", taken from our latest album “X to the Power of Ten”! You’ll also find a little Making Off and there’s new merch available!!!
We are very proud to announce, that Monocular s "Water Shape EP" is available at your favorite Online-Store now.
Containing the single "Water Shape" from the forthcoming album "Somewhere On The Line" (April 03, 2009 VierSieben Records/Alive) and three non-album tracks ("Consequence", "To Admire The Life", "Ravenclaw"), it is definitely a must have for all fans of filigree and athmospheric electrosounds.
Where bands like Lamb or Frou Frou left a gap in the late 90s and early 21st century, Monocular redefined the sound and set new standards in developing their complex music by connecting charismatic vocals with entrancing soundscapes.
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