Member Since: 8/29/2006
Band Website: glastonburymusic.org.uk/will/index.html
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Sadly, Invisible Opera is now no more...for the time being!
But...I am pleased to announce the arrival of the SPACE PIRATES, which is where my energies are currently focussed.
check this out!
Influences: Zappa, Todd Rundgren, Jeff Beck, Django, Allan Holdsworth, Can, the Soft machine/Caravan/Gong family, Santana, Curtis Mayfield, the Damned, Roy Wood, Traffic, Colosseum, Curved Air, Alquin etc etc
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Heres a Video experiment based on the seminal 'Invisible Opera' tune, 'Gravity'
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Sounds Like: "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."...........Hunter .S Thompson
Difficult to describe it myself....
So here's a review of the first album/demo..
"Why oh why? the subject matter of the Zappa-esque first track 'Now it's your turn' concentrates, somewhat unnecessarily it seems on Will's failings as a performer. It will make you laugh darkly, however. This track is given the additional edge of irony by Will's deadpan Waits style delivery interspersed with some brilliant flailing electric guitar.
'Smokeless' starts with a gently jazzy piano riff about the vagaries of running out of things to smoke, if I understood it right. It cuts to a rather beautiful Hillagey instrumental section with further demonstration of Will's prowess as psychedelic fretwangler.
'Shine' is a bit within-without-you with a bit of the pretenders after Chrissy got into Hare Krishna. One can't help feeling that it might all sound a little more punchy with a live kit drummer. The arabic instrumental works well here, however.
'Euphonious Junk' seems to be back to Will's perceptions of his own musical ineptitude. Great groove, more fine guitar work, "and a dodgy voice is all the more revealing", you said it.
'Discrepancies' - I just don't want to go into it now, ok? a bit of a blippy house production here with Will's ambient drawlings over the top. Then a bit of extended Invisible Clockwork Band style instrumental improvisation. Apart from the excalibur FM jingles which give this release an air of surrealism all of their own, the album ends with 'Guitarsis' more clockwork band guitar workouts with a touch of Zappa.
This CD is a great introduction to the world of Will Greenwood, although it has more of the feel of a long demo than a proper album.
We want more..."
Tim Hall
(This Album, as well as 'Lament to a Space Pirate', is still available, for a small concession, from this very website...)
Cool
http://www.glastonburymusic.org.
uk/
Record Label: Indelible Marker....
Type of Label: None