The Severed Headmaster (Seth Horatio Buncombe): revolutionary poet, composer and performer, dealing mainly with vocals and Banjo. Buncombe is a poetic provocateur and a postmodern peasant.
Little Myth Epiphanymph (Martha Redivivus): mysterious multi-disciplinary artist, dealing with flute, the musical saw and various instruments. Redivivus is the duo's illustrator and a kaleidoscopic conceptualist.
Influences
That’s for us to know, and you to find out... But if you sorely need your namedropping, here’s a few names for you:
"Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf" (Albee/Nichols ), Daniel Johnston, Mike Sport Murphy, Philip Glass, John Jacob Niles, "Meshes of the Afternoon" (Deren), Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce ("Finnegans Wake" & "Ulysses"),Gyorgi Ligeti, Lars Von Trier, Scott Walker, e.e. Cummings, Peter Delaney,Arne Nordheim, Frida Kahlo, The Quay Brothers, Edward Gorey, Deerhoof, Thure Erik Lund,Microphones/Mount Eerie, Lindsay Anderson,Spike Jones, Patrick McCabe, Tom Lehrer, 16 Horsepower/Woven Hand, Kronos Quartet, Flann O’ Brien,Al Duvall, Maja Ratkje, Tiger Lillies, Gustav Mahler, "Un chien andalou" (Bunuel/Dali), Black Sabbath,Lewis Carroll, June Tabor, Lisa Dillan, Michael Mantler, "Koyaanisqatsi"(Reggio/Fricke), "Equus" (Shaeffer/Lumet), Tom Waits, "The Tenant" (Polanski), "Julien Donkey Boy" & "Gummo" (Korine),Alice Cooper,Dario Argento,Ed Wood,The Spook Of The Thirteenth Lock, George Worrall, Robbie Basho,Roy Smeck, David Lynch, Dylan Thomas, "The Unnameable" (Samuel Beckett).
Sounds Like
A special treat for you... the brand new song "Camp Blood - then and now" inspired by the friday the 13th series, recorded live in Hudson up-state New York, in the lovely Musica.
Thinguma*jigSaw's cover of "walking the cow" by daniel johnston - from (awakeinwhitechapel)
Thinguma*jigSaw's DEBUT ALBUM (awakeinwhitechapel)
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(awakeinwhitechapel)
1. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 2 - serpentsapple
2. who's laughing now?
3. burden of genius (for p. condon)
4. walking the cow (d. johnston)
5. my blood giggles
6. a solid severance
7. can I walk you home?
8. jumping jock flesh
9. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 3 -rest
10. thinguma*qatsi
11. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 4 - waltzofdeath
12. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 1 - redlightcockfight
13. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 5 - lullabyforleviathan
This album has been described as not only a masterpiece, but "a masterpiece and a half". It is produced by the eminent Nicky Coghlan, and it features twelve original compositions, one cover of Daniel Johnston's "walking the cow", and liner-notes by the legendary Mike "Sport" Murphy. Original artwork by Little Myth Epiphanymph.
The liner notes for (awakeinwhitechapel) - by Sport Murphy:
"Beg, borrow, or steal if you have to, but just make sure to get your hands on this amazing album. 10/10",
Thinguma*jigSaw "awakeinwhitechapel"
- Foxy Digitalis
"I have to say this is one of the most original and thoroughly enjoyable folk albums I’ve heard over the last year or so, it mangers to be tuneful, macabre, playful and inventive through-out...Certainly one of the albums of the year,that I can see myself playing in years to come.",
Thinguma*jigsaw - awakeinwhitechapel [Deserted Village - 2008] - MusiqueMachine
"(awakeinwhitechapel) is one of my favourite irish albums of all time...it cannot
help but jolt the first-time listener out of their cynical distanse...
a pair of psycho Norwegians obsessed with death", Album Swap - Analogue magazine, Ireland
"the record appears to have been made by mad children...It's a world where David Tibet and Tim Renner meet Dock Boggs in a damp cobbled lane under gaslight to drink absinthe and await the end of days."
2007 in Review (part 1) - Dwacres
"De donkere sinistere ondertoon van ‘Awakeinwhitechapel' heeft alles van doen met het onderwerp dat centraal staat: Jack The Ripper en de Whitechapel murders ",
Mysterieuze folk via Clear Spot - Folkforum
Some articles on Thinguma*jigSaw:
"Their music is deeply unsettling yet strangely comforting, instrumentally spare but musically rich",
NOR-WEIRD-IAN TUNES ARE THE 'THING'" - New York Post
"Musikken er myk og sparsommelig, tekstene fulle av død og fordervelse.",
There will be blood - Aftenposten, Oslopuls
"Den norske duoen Thinguma*jigSaw skal denne uken til Nederland for
å spille prestisjetunge konserter"
Thinguma*jigSaw til Europa." - Groove.no
"they have quickly become darlings of the underground scene"
Whatchamaycallitsaw - Hifipopcorn
Interviews with Thinguma*jigSaw:
"Their debut awakeinwhitechapel is one of the freshest, strange yet memorable takes on folk music your likely
to have every heard mixing together banjo, musically saw and flute."
Folk Murder & Mayhem - MusiqueMachine
"Does that make any sense? Well -does it have to? And is anything purely funny or vicious?",
Interview with Thinguma*jigSaw - Ratatosk Online
"...you can stretch out just one foot away from Scandinavian duo Thinguma*JigSaw
whilst they give a mesmerising, unamplified performance on the saw, banjo and
breath-powered keyboard",
End of the Road Festival - best fest of 2008? - Time Out, London
"Alle som så Thinguma*jigSaw på Torgerstuen på Tøyen i midten av mai kan skrive under på at duoen driver med ting få om noen andre i landet er i nærheten av å matche, gjennom hva de selv har døpt splatter-folk."
Torgerstuen - Plan B
"Maar het meest intieme moment van het festival werd bereikt toen het duo met banjo en dwarsfluit midden in het publiek gingen staan",
Motel Mozaique: de eerste recensies - Eclectro.nl
"With their invented style, they combine elements of folk and avante garde music with horror movie sensibilities." Hello Goodbye Show - resonancefm.com
This irresistible, revolutionary folk-duo will tickle your brain and nourish your heart;
Two elusive, exeptional, pivotal personalities - cunningly spinning a web of flamboyant brouhahas within the idiom of their own device: charming, clever, generous, sinister splatterfolk.
Splatterfolk combines elements of traditional Irish/British/American folk with contemporary art music, and spices it up with lyrical and musical components usually associated with horrorfilms, experimental theatre and modernistic poetry. There is also an abundance of filmatic and popcultural references. It's the new revolution within the folk music - scene of today, and you will find no finer exponents of this subversive art than Thinguma*jigSaw. Sensual and subversive - that..s us!
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Hi Thinguma*jigSaw, I Draw Slow are playing The Cobblestone, Smithfield in Dublin on Wednesday 24th June, supported by the amazing Thomas Kitt. Doors are at 8.30 and admission is €10, a small price to pay to see the citys two premier acoustic acts don't you agree? On the off chance you disagree, come down on wednesday next to the Cobblestone, Smithfield Dublin and we'd be happy to discuss it.
Først: Tusen hjertelig takk for noen utrolig inspirerende konserter!
Sååå... ville jeg bare tipse dere om en liten ting:
Tjohooooooo! vi spiller endelig i Oslo igjen(hører til sjeldenhetene, dagen før spiller vi i Moss, ta turen en av dagene)!! Detta blir nok siste konsert med vår kjære bassreim, Anne Marthe, som skal flytte til Larvik.
VI SPARER IKKE PÅ KRUTTET! Kom og del en hæærlich helaften med hårtørkerråkk og oss i Maudlin Minx FREDAG 19. Juni på Verkstedet i Oslo (eller cafè Brandstrup 18. juni i Moss)
Svarte Greiner (Deaf Center/Miasmah/Type) explores deep into a dark, mysterious and disturbing universe. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Earth, Volcano the Bear, David Darling & Deathprod, the music is draped in Lynchian mysticism and horror film cinematics. "The music of Svarte Greiner is practically perfect. It's like that sound in our heads we've been imagining for ages but had never actually heard." - Type Records.
The Sight Below (Rafael Anton Irisarri/Miasmah/Immune) draws as much on modern genre progenitors like Brian Eno, Robin Guthrie and My Bloody Valentine as it does from the more historic traditions in neo-classicism from Erik Satie and Olivier Messiaen. His album Glider has appeared on Thom Yorke's radar in making the Radiohead's lynchpin's top ten playlist.
His debut album Navigare soon to feature on the Miasmah label, Simon Scott (former Slowdive) is set to be a household name in conceptual music. Simon is the former Slowdive drummer, co-producer of Televise, producer of Seavault, and owner of KESH Recordings label.
Saturday 06/06/2009 21:30 at Sound Of Mu, Markveien 58, Oslo Cost: A fistful o’ nothin’!
Lasso (elastique) contribute to the festivities during Musikkfest Oslo. According to their website, we’re on at 8 p.m. in Markveien, but the plan is to play inside at Sound Of Mu at 9.30. You heard it straight from the horse’s mouth!
hey guy and girl! i had a great time last sunday... you can find an entry about the show at my music blog: http://ammuse.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/thingumajigsaw-at-musica/
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