Lettuce / Visigoth / Monster: Strings and Phonemes and Boxed Beats
Gore Be Grym: Morphemes and Bangings
Peyote Slinger: Strings and Keys and Phonemes
M. Hersch / H.B.: Accordian, Strings, Drones, and Percussionisms
Owen Brady: Strings, Bangings, Wishes and Wushes
- others to be added -
The Origami Gangster Orchestra:
Inspired by the Opal Ovals and mainstream pop-punk bands, the Picked Pockets also invite strangers, guests, and nonplussed persons to interact and aid each performance.
Past and Present Appearances by:
Galvinatronic H
Grilled Cheese
Fur-row-shus
Angenious
Influences
Booze, hammerings, pop music, the written word, the spoken word, humming, fribbling, nigglers.
Musical Influences Include but Are Not Limited to: Animal Collective, Liars, The Vulgar Bulgars, The Mountain Goats, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Moldy Peaches, Norfolk and Western, DeVotchKa, Godspeed!, A Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band, The Microphones, Mount Eerie, Thanksgiving, OOIOO, Set Fire to Flames, The Boredoms, The Books, Vague Angels, Islands, The Unicorns, Devendra Banhart, Radiohead
Sounds Like
It’s a gathering of insects in winter their old wings have long molted away damned to a life of servile bondage enslaved upon the land where they hatched (a carapace colony of stoic American laborers)—insects who get together click flap buzz but in different dialects expressing wants through physical mating dances cues. It’s the dizzied whirlwind of the Inferno’s carnal tenants dotted with euphonic tremolo and the accordion’s hopeful breathes sincerely believe in nada future: or any purpose in its respirations. It's catharsis in a crowded market where the only goods one buys are harmonic minors or pentatonic cornucopias to be shared among other less fortunate villagers—happiness is sheathing the great unwashed palms with goods dispersed like hydrogen hybrids in monsoon season over the famished and thirsty. It’s an oligarchy of selfish actors an endless cavalcade of toothy understudies for Warhol’s Steinbeck’s Lenny (not caring about the rabbits or their fur or their symbolic gravity—embellishing their resume for the stamps and cords dragging like chain off an Israeli passport) but really the resume is requisite for the collective unconsciness’s indoctrination ceremony over Troy. We are an outlet for anyone who wants to scream taboo profanity and expose themselves with the hope of discovering anything besides certain banalities found (like crushed receipts) by operating within the status-quo. We break mirrors and read Blake. Also, we like I IV V’s.
Originally formed in a five minute span in a very grim room. Based in Bristol, Rhode Island at Roger Williams University. Members come from the Greater Providence Area; the Greater Newport Area; Gorham, Maine; Connecticut; and North Carolina. Previously most Picked Pocket members were a part of the late and great Opal Ovals. Many other side projects exist, including the Fribbling Nigglers, a hip-hop / tribal-chant offshoot of the Picked Pockets.
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