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KETMAN

MONKEY'S IN THE HEN HOUSE, RELY ON THE ROOSTER

About Me

The word Ketman comes from the title of a chapter in Czeslaw Milosz's book The Captive Mind. Recommended reading on some sound ideas. With jangling and jagged tunes, Ketman as band has been trying to peel the paint since forming at the beginning of 2003's long winter. We've got dissonant, acrobatic and frantic songs, shirking off the straightjackets. Inspired by robots praising the sun to shards of slop pop and interstellar surf. Now get to work, you!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/7/2005
Band Website: ketman.net
Band Members: Eric Penna-Sonic booms and history lessons, Joseph Marrett-Gnarled roots and snake charming, Mora Precarious-Oil drum trapeze sets to make the octopi jealous
Influences: shouting at the TV news, haphazard catastrophe drafting, interstellar destinations and hopes for abduction, the chemicals that compose us and the skin of our teeth, Come and See, long walks, charting the exploration of sea and space, Muhammed Ali, Czeslaw Milosz, captivated minds, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, Kentucky Bourbon and Polish Vodka
Sounds Like: chemists fighting in a bulldozer factory. loud dobrze.
Record Label: Lifted and Gifted Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Boston Phoenix - Boston Metro - Boston Herald

    Hello all!Three new write ups coming into this new year.----We're featured in the Boston Herald today. you can see it here: http://news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/general/...
Posted by KETMAN on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:45:00 PST

New Interview + MP3of The week Boston Phoenix

A couple new press niblets for ya'lls.... the kind folks at Idle Hands Art have just posted on their website (http://www.idlehandsart.com/) an interview with us. Those kids are building something cool...
Posted by KETMAN on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:41:00 PST

new song

    people..."chapter four"  is a new song from our EP golden fiction. check it out and prepare for july 12ththank you
Posted by KETMAN on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:20:00 PST

NEW EP and TOUR details!!!

hello people.It may appear we've been very quiet but we tracked a 14 song full length in February after our last tour. We're deciding what to do with it for the moment. While we figured that all out, ...
Posted by KETMAN on Thu, 24 May 2007 07:11:00 PST

weekly dig feature

hello everyone... We're rounding the corner and preparing for our grand finale residency show this tuesday before a short  break while we buy a van and prepare for  the esperanto east coast ...
Posted by KETMAN on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:04:00 PST

esperanto in the phoenix

Sarah Tomlinson wrote about our new EP today in the Phoenix: "Indie-rock trio KETMAN will wrap up a 12-date California tour in time to celebrate their new self-recorded six-song EP, Esperanto, with a...
Posted by KETMAN on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:45:00 PST

final stretch...

We've had a good run here on the west coast and we prepare for our last three shows. Steven Seagal and his band thunderbox played in town last night but we missed it since we had a show at a converted...
Posted by KETMAN on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:24:00 PST

esperanto! - Metro Interview - Globe Quick Pick

Our new EP esperanto is done! We have it with us here in California where we begin our west coast tour tonight in Redding. We've added two new songs to our profile as a preview.Esperanto was recorded ...
Posted by KETMAN on Wed, 24 May 2006 01:42:00 PST

New Noise review

This is in the February Issue of the noise: KETMAN Lifted and Gifted Productions Dobrze 7 songs  This disc starts off in a mess of catatonic disarray that lures you into a sonic...
Posted by KETMAN on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 04:07:00 PST

What's up magazine review

Hey all, this is the review in What's up magazine. There's a review in the noise too which we'll Get up here soon. KETMAN  Dobrze There's a joke that goes: Sonic Youth, Weezer, The Foo Fighters and...
Posted by KETMAN on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:57:00 PST