Bio:

Totter Todd means "Death Dead" in German, if you say it correctly. Totter Todd (www.myspace.com/tottertodd) presently bases his international touring out of the San Francisco area. Totter Todd's newest project is TOTTER Co-produced by Totter Todd and Cochrane Mcmillian, is a unique project that utilizes the skills, talent, and inspiration of these two artists and others to create a musical experience like no other. Whether performing in intimate settings as a solo or duo act, or teaming up with others for spectacular theatrical events, TOTTER is a musical experience not to be missed. TOTTER is currently teaming up with BAD UNKL SISTA (www.badunklsista.com), a performance, costuming, and installation piece ensemble steeped in the Japanese art of BUTOH and more. Butoh inspired movements, costumes, and live video play while TOTTER interacts with sound, movement, and costumes, creating a theatrical and musical event for all the senses. Totter Todd has performed, composed for, produced, arranged, engineered, and/or recorded with such acts as: a new project produced by Dr.ISRAEL which includes BERNIE WORELL (P-Funk/Parliament), BILL LASWELL (TABLA BEAT SCIENCE/PRAXIS/METHOD OF DEFIANCE), and DR.KNOW (BAD BRAINS); STREISAND AND ONASSIS (A project with the legendary Big Mama Fitzgerald where Streisand (Totter) sings melodically as Onassis (Big Mama) dies a slow death in a posh New York hotel room)(saxophone/flute http://home.earthlink.net/~bigmamafitzgerald/index.html); TOTTER TODD AND THE WELL TEMPERED PLAYERS (vocals/ saxophone/flute/writing/arranging/engineering www.myspace.com/thewelltemperedplayers); KATAKO AND THE CONGO VIBES (saxophone/vocals Zaire and Germany); the infamous FERAL (guitar/vocals/producing); KEVENS (saxphone/vocals/flute/synthisyzers www.kevens.com); HEAVYWEIGHT DUB CHAMPION (www.championnation.net), THE MANDALA OLIVE PROJECT (composing/scoring/sound design/live performance), THE CAPTAIN'S PANTS SHOW (composing/scoring/sound design/live performance/lead acting); TIFFANY PFIEFER (saxophone/flute/arranging www.myspace.comtiffanypfiefer); and TOTTER (vocals/guitar/saxophone/synth/composing/arranging)www.myspace.com/tottermusic). He has shared the stage with: KRS ONE, Tricky, DJ Spooky, Alpha Blondie, Souls of Mischief, Steel Pulse, Jimmy Cliff, Gregory Isaacs, Lords of Acid, Boukman Experyans, H.R. of Bad Brains,Lee "Scratch" Perry, Luciano, Andrew Tosh, Dr.Israel, Long Beach Dub All Stars, J Boogie Dubtronic Science, Ziggy Marley, Sly and Robbie, Stanton Warrior, Mark Farina, Micheal Franti and Spearhead, Toots and the Maytals, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Blackeyed Peas, Michael Rose, The Pharcyde, Dub Syndicate, Space Girl, Majek Fashek, Mad Professor, Burning Spear, The Skatalites, Pato Banton, Les Claypool, The Last Emperor, Ozomatli, Sinead O'Conner, Don Carlos, Lee Combs, DB, Aphrodite, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Living Legends, The Roots, Sound Tribe Sector Nine, Eek-A-Mouse, Zap-Mama, Bassnectar, Lyrics Born, Culture, Third World, Katako, Charlie Hunter, Wailing Souls, Steve Kimock, Sean Paul, Anthony B, Bluetech, Damian Marley, Rabbit in the Moon, Sasha and Digweed, and The Chemical Brothers. Totter Todd regularly tours internationally with the trip-hop dubtronica outfit HEAVYWEIGHT DUB CHAMPION, of which he has been a member of since 1998, as well as THE WELL TEMPERED PLAYERS, TOTTER, and KEVENS. Totter Todd has worked on four releases under HDCs (CHAMPION NATION RECORDINGS). ~Survival Guide for the End of Time ~Rise, which features KRS-ONE, Killah Priest of the WU-TANG CLAN, dub legend DR.ISRAEL, APOSTLE, and STERO-LION. ~APOSTLE, the solo album for the Bay Area/Denver hip-hop artist and~Dub Sessions Vol.1 an instrumental HDC album. He self-released "COMPULSION'S WIDOWS" by THE WELL TEMPERED PLAYERS. He is featured on up-coming releases from TIFFANY PFEIFER, KEVENS, and a project with BILL LASWELL, BERNIE WORELL, and DR.KNOW produced by Dr. ISRAEL. . ..

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Member Since:

March 19, 2006

Members:

Totter Todd-voice, producing, programming, guitar, bass, synths, sax, flute. When with The Well Tempered Players other players include, Jeb Eagle Bows-violin. Reverend James Calvin Thompson-upright bass, Ryan Jalbert-guitar. and Alan Ward and/or Andrew Lindstrom-kit drums. When with HDC - Resurrector, Patch, Jillian Ann, Stero-Lion, Apostle, Dr.Israel. When with TOTTER - Cochrane Mcmillan.

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