Member Since: 23/10/2006
Band Members: Benjamin Morrison, Pablo Kebab, sometimes other people, sometimes computers, lots of broken instruments.
Influences: Hard rubbish collections, the texture of comic book paper, strange instrument combinations, creepy organ tones, minor chords, old crusty sounding recordings, brass music, Melvins, Tchaikovsky, Firewitch, Carl Stalling, Raymond Scott, Stories, The Birthday Party, Lewis Carol, Duke Ellington, Mingus, Monk, Ravel, Cigarettes, Saint-Saens 3rd Symphony, Bernard Herrmann, Wojciech Kilar, Beach Boys, Martin Denny, old dixie, blues & Negro spirituals, Vada, Gamelan music, Colours, Faure’s Requiem, the sound of Machines and other mechanical inventions, Bungle’s Disco Volante album, Children’s Nursery Rhyme Picture Books, Cornelius, Dead Kennedy’s, the stranglers, Joel Ritchie, music boxes and other charming small ornaments usually found in op shops, black & white films, people & elements of humanity that are full of shit, Chopin, Max Fleischer Colour Classics, great friends and Melbourne musicians whom I love and am lucky to work with and learn from, Penny, midis, mum, Louise and dad’s ghost, etc.
Sounds Like:
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'A million wacky cartoon characters
are swarming around in my head like bees.
And they’re laughing at me. And eating
each other' - some dude Matt on Symphony no.1www.crommo.wordpress.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
'Wow that sucked' - one of my videos reviewed by random you tube user
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Maybe like a Satanic Yann Tiersen
Type of Label: Major