The Carnivaleros - a cheese fondue, a steaming plate of question marks, music for films yet to be made, beats-a-plenty, random mode changes, a delicious sauce, squeaky squeaks, skwonky skwonks, effervescent velvety panty movements, lost and found, a collared peccary melt, three floating cacti, tonal largesse, a thorn in the sock of the music industry...but mostly a band that knows how to swing, waltz and polka in the same breath.
"Starting off with a coolly creepy Waits-esque ramble on mid-West oddities and homeliness, Gary Mackender and crew initiate a very interesting collective of accordion-centered instrumentals and lyrically intriguing tunes. The Carnivaleros occupy that ghostly twilight niche manned by lurking gatherings of really good musicians who keep a tight lock on neighborhood familiarity and loose professionality by capturing a Saturday Night vibe and keeping it firmly stoked. Every track seems cut straight from dives, socials, backroom jams, and jes’-plain-folks get-togethers. Elsewhere in this corner of the musical universe, there’s a great longstanding (30+ years) bluesrock band, the Nighthawks, that has the trip down cold, not to mention a righteous hybrid TexMex rock-swing band, the Juke Jumpers, equally friendly. Anyone familiar with those ensembles should well know whereof I speak. The indies are probably the sole resort for such things, but they’re not often enough host to this high a degree of warmth, inventiveness, and strangely attractive mutations".
Mark S. Tucker, Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange.
The video below documents the final journey of a decaying organic sculpture piece that lasted a decade...1988-1998. Created by artist/musician Gary Mackender, the video features music from The Carnivaleros first CD "Step Right Up!".
I’ve had a few comments about the nature of using food in art perhaps being wasteful. This sculpture was part of a series of "junk food" sculptures I made in 1987-88 which were comments on the crap food being fed to us by corporations. The pizzas used in the piece were of the frozen variety that had no natural ingredients whatsoever. I also made an aquarium filled with Big Macs and had two or three swimmers floating across the surface. There was also an ammo box filled with L’il Debbie Snack Cakes. All pieces lasted about ten years, which tells ya something about the "food" used...thanks for the comment and eat your vegetables, fruit and nuts!
The Pizza Sink Saga
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Gina Lollobrigida
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Carnival Ride
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Die Was Cast
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GLOW 2007
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