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)
(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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Tickets SELLING FAST! £7 adv avaliable from (more on the door): wegottickets.com seetickets.com Ticketline Picadilly Records
Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
New free Herv digital album out now on Cock Rock Disco!
Hi there,
Just a quick note to let you know that I have a new free digital release out now on Cock Rock Disco if you would like to take a listen.
Heres what label owner Jason Forrest / Dj Donna Summer had to say!
Herv: "Not figuratively, but literally in love with Music..."
"Ireland's sexiest laptopper lands his latest mini-album on Cock Rock Disco! "Not figuratively, but literally in love with Music..." is a rave inspired experimental break-acid-core thrill ride of endless ideas and possibilities. Herv packs a lot into the 8 tracks; melodies evolve and twist, beats fracture and congeal and synths collide! It's exciting! But that's not all, it comes with 2 cd designs and a freakin A0 sized poster! Whoa! Can't beat the value in that!"
Oyez, oyez!
Once again in your extended network, Newer Not is proud to announce the digital release of its new album.
For the first time before your very eyes and ears, you will rediscover feelings you thought lost forever : excitement! anxiety! relief! nonchalance! thrill! return of the loved one!
Do not fear and have an ear for Newer Not, the band with a 20% bonus in soul. Free download and all-you-can-listen-to buffet.
Love,
Newer Not
The second part of the trilogy "The
Empty
Circle" by The Joy of Nature, entitled «Rastos de Sangue e fragmentos da
Tradição», has been now released by Ahnstern and it is available at The Joy of Nature's store.
In this second part a lot more instruments were used and more
musicians collaborated, like R. Coutinho, B. Ardo (Sangre Cavallum), Rui
Almeida (Massa Última), Triarca, Mara Neves and M.J.
Not only a reaction against the modern world, but
an alternative to this post-modern world.
Lasso (elastique) play at Sound Of Mu (Markveien 58, 0550 Oslo) this Sunday, October 4th. We're supporting indie-folk band The Burning Hell and Black Molly, both from Canada. With three acts playing and us probably on first, we could be starting as early as 8 p.m. I expect entry will cost around kr 50,-
Tuesday, October 6th, Lasso play their own concert at Månefisken Café (Sagveien 23A-5, 0459 Oslo). Between two waterfalls by Oslo’s river, Akerselva, lies the legendary Moonfish. That’s where Lasso go sunfishing. Entry is free. 9 p.m. should be a good time to come.
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show returns to the airwaves on Resonance 104.4 FM this Saturday 5th September between noon and 1.30pm. Today's broadcast is in conjunction with PESTIVAL * With contributions from the Mosquito expert Dr. James Logan, an essay from the author Tim Burrows (on the subject of insects in rock and pop), plus live music from the London based alt/art duo Plug, who will debut new insect related material especially written for Hello GoodBye.
* PESTIVAL is a festival celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect. Pestival 2009 runs from 3rd-6th September @ The Southbank Centre and is jam-packed with insect-inspired talks and debates, as well as comedy, music, walks, workshops, installations and experiments. For further information, please visit: http://pestival.org
