Trash Orchestra

Bio:

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www.trashorchestra.org

Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra is a performance and marching percussion band, whose instruments are composed exclusively of recycled and reclaimed materials, focused on anarchist and anti-authoritarian struggles and mutual support for groups making radical social change.





We make percussion on tuned cans, hubcaps and barrels, drums, pieces of sheet metal, and homemade oddities. We are a bone-shaking recycled orchestra – a sonic force of fiery resistance!

We appear invited and uninvited at protests and celebrations, furors and frackuses, anywhere there's a need to make a ruckus, to shout out and help right injustice, suffering, and oppression, to make a big noise to celebrate our victories and our losses.

If you are full of rebellious insolence and music in your heart, we want you to be part of the band. Bring your courage, your passion, your righteous anger. Bring your instruments, recycled or otherwise.

Trash Orchestra website with music, photos, performance schedule, bloggedy blog, etc: www.trashorchestra.org

Assorted interests: drumming, percussion, recycling, rummaging at the dump, junk yards, drinking whiskey, smoking cigars, driving beater cars, stealing 55 gal barrels, dumpster diving, dumpster playing, building instruments, making music, playing with the rhythms, playing gamelan, electronic geekery, campfires, punks, creative anarchy, working in collective groups, resisting authority, fighting tyranny, blurring the line between work and play ..

Member Since:

July 09, 2007

Members:

Elrod - canstrument, snare, whistle, scrap a-go-go
Gus - wrenchaphone, big blue drum
Angel Baby - hubcap, pylaphone
Lynn - steel pan, snare, green bin
Alhueche - wine bottles, big blue drum
Saska - pot lid hi-hat, bass kick pedal
Kimihiko Fresh - canstrament, junk trumpet
Corky - saw, wheel barrel, green meanie

as well as dozens of other great players including Buba, Gertrude, Hector, Cynthia, Blane, Mimi, and Triana

Influences:

Infernal Noise Brigade, Stomp, Tom Waits, Samba, James Brown, punk, drumlines, Rage Against the Machine, Indonesian Gamelan, taiko, hardcore, the military drum bands of our youth, and dozens of other awesome radical marching bands.

Sounds Like:

Barely modulated chaos, a peasant uprising, an angry group of protesters coming for you, a drum jam at the dump

Record Label:

Fuck corporate music. We do this for love.