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Cicada Omega

a transcendential junkyard blues experiment

About Me

Welcome friends, cousins, spirits, and strangers alike. I am here to tell you this IS the real deal. This is Cicada Omega, the last of the Plague of Locust upon ya. This is home made from the things YOU have thrown away. This is the second coming of the old South. And this WILL move you.
Cicada Omega, from the Land Between the Lakes, the Dark and Bloody ground of old Kaintuck. So I say, GET UP! and hear the old country call'n. Hear the soul, gospel, and electrified, transcendental junk yard blues a crying. And friends when I say junk... I am talking "suit-case, electrified" Bass (see pics) played by a man with smoke'n fingers and a lost soul. I'm talk'n a "resolectric" guitar made from a suitcase, and I'm talk'n about a percussionist that plays old car parts. Can you hear me?
This is Cicada Omega, southern harmony set a fire with voodoo rhythm sparked by the word of God. So STAND UP! and prepare the way. For this is a juke joint revival that you can shake your ass to. This is Cicada Omega, the Four Horseman from the blue moon state. Cicada Omega, psychedelic snake handlers for a new age. Cicada Omega, the whisky drinking, tongue tie'n, hard rock'n, rhythm and blues band from the hillsides of Kentucky.
Like I said before, my brothers, and sisters, this IS the real deal, so deal yourself in. Can I get an Ah Men!
"THESE BONES" - Our new album, out now !!!
REVIEWS:
Rick Saunders- "Beware! Cicada Omega brings that dirty Kentucky hill holler boogie to DBF by way of their adopted town of Portland, Oregon. Fully strapped with banjos, suitcase bass, guitars, drums and car parts percussion, and snake calling voices shoutin’ hard to their heavens and earth, both, to call up Dock Boggs, John Lee, The Wolf, Ali Farka, Funkadelic, R.L. and Junior. Wanna bet they can do it?"
Willamette Week - "What sells the entire album is how ugly it sounds. It's like his axe was strung with copper telephone wire. And the vocals sound as if Winfield were tied to the mast of a ship, railing at the waves of sound crashing over him with Beefheartian fury"
Eclectic Groovies - " Cicada Omega performs exuberant renditions of traditional gospel and blues songs such as "Ring Like Gold and "This Time Another Year" that sound like they were taken straight from the field recordings of Alan Lomax. "
The Mercury - " If our town was one of juke joints and wooden shacks with stages protected by chicken wire, then Cicada Omega would be the house band. The local rapscallions make bluesy low-fi country that has all the urgency of a call to battle, but still clutches enough subtlety to make their latest, These Bones, a delightful journey into some junkyard soul. "

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/31/2005
Band Website: cicadaomega.com
Band Members:

Salim Sundiata- kitchenware-percussion,vocals

Rev. B. D. Winfield- resolectric suitcase, vocals, banjo, snake handling, guitar

Daniyel Hicks- suit-case bass, vocals

Dave Rue- drums, percussion

Influences: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Black Sabbath, Captain Beefheart, Howlin' Wolf, , Doo Rag, Kurt Elling, Doc. Boggs, Booker T. & the MGS, JR. Kimbrough, Califone, Dr. John, Sun Ra, Hank Williams, R.L. Burnside, John Fahey, Ali Farka, John Lee Hooker, Morphine, Holy Ghost, Ornette Coleman, Tom Waits, Funkadelic, The Staple Singers, The Big Spider Tribe, The Wagg, Crazy Horse, Bourbon, Fried Chicken and all things Kentucky
Get the full low down at- http://www.realdeepblues.blogspot.com/

Sounds Like: A southern grease fire from another planet.
Record Label: none
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Here We Come, Cicada Dog Day Tour 2008

  On the subject of Cicadas - Cicadas live in temperate to tropical climates where they are among the most widely recognized of all insects, mainly due to their large size and remarkable acousti...
Posted by Cicada Omega on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:54:00 PST

Thank you Thank you...CD Release Party

 I just wanted to say thanks to everyone that came out and helped us release our disk at Dante's on 6-6-08. Yall made it a rowdy kick in the ass for us. And Man....Sassparilla and, Bark Hide and...
Posted by Cicada Omega on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:50:00 PST

Murder in the Mountains Tour, Montana July 2008

Here is a little heads up for anyone in the area of Montana in July... We will be there to thanks to a little thing called Murder in the Mountains, Check it out... Section 08 Productions Proudly Pres...
Posted by Cicada Omega on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:44:00 PST

!!! Deep Blues Fest 2008 !!!

  What can I say that has not been said, This will be the most kick ass event of the year and with a line up like this how can you go wrong, so come one and all far and wide. And Don't...
Posted by Cicada Omega on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:53:00 PST

words from Nine Bullets

Check out this -  a little something from Nine Bullets-   Today's lesson: Don't judge a band by its name. If I said, "Man, you should check out Cicada Omega" and left it at that, you woul...
Posted by Cicada Omega on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:02:00 PST

The Good Word, see what they said

Just in case you missed the good stuff Amy wrote about us.... here it is Willamette Week   BY AMY MCCULLOUGH | amccullough at wweek dot com [July 18th, 2007] [JUNKYARD BLUES] "Did you get saved...
Posted by Cicada Omega on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:12:00 PST

"When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do,

"When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to ...
Posted by Cicada Omega on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 05:59:00 PST