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Frantic Turtle

Frantic Punk Poetry!!

About Me

Frantic Turtle merges poetry, music, and performance into philosophically viral mixtures like existentialist dancehall, punk-prayer, and toasted jazz poetry. We're into strictly avant expression - the over-fed language of the urban god-piece. And jumpy grooves on the background to keep your ids dancing.

Check out THE FRANTIC PLAYLIST on youtube!

This piece is called Bar Yochai. It's from 09/24/2007 Mima'amakim show @ the Bowery Poetry club, footage courtesy of Ian Elimeliah:

And here's our jam with Rashanim. Courtesy of Abe, the true lamed-vavnik.

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Music:

Member Since: 5/2/2006
Band Members: Jake Marmer (vocals), Kas (bass/drama), Elly Geldwerth (drums), Anthony Plekhov (guitar), Seth Lieberman (sax/clarinet), Yosef Goldman (percussion/backing vocals) and sometimes/ once upon a time: Jessie Reagen (cello), Jeremy Stein (flute), Chaya Glaser (backing vocals), David Keesey (guitar).
Influences: Talking Heads, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, Anton Chekhov, Jack Kerouac, Dead Kennedys, Jim Carrol, Gil Scott-Heron, Langston Hughes, Tom Waits, Pere Ubu, Woody Allen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Burning Spear.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Studio Track! Yah! And Oct 24th show

Mixmaster Anthony P. aka our distinguished guitarist finished remixing Bar Yochai, which is up here on myspace for all of yrs pleasures. Our first studio track! Feeling like a joyous slimy newborn Tur...
Posted by Frantic Turtle on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:11:00 PST

Show on Tue Sep 25th @ the Parkside Lounge

Dear Frantic Friends,What apple is more applacious than New York and what honey is sweeter than Frantic Turtle's liquefied-pollen / thick-drip of funk-punk-poetry? You're most cordially invited to our...
Posted by Frantic Turtle on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:08:00 PST

Mini-Serenade and Other Updates

Hey friends, The Turtle been hiding out a bit but that's just cause we are hard at work on the demo. We do got shows coming up though - Sep 25th and Oct 24rd. We'll be back as turtle-wild as ever. He...
Posted by Frantic Turtle on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:38:00 PST

The show on July 15th!! Come!

New Frantic show coming up! Sun July 15th at the Bowery Poetry Club. We're opening for the all-star collaboration of Basya Schechter (Pharaoh's Daughter), Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Jon Madof (Rashanim), a...
Posted by Frantic Turtle on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:34:00 PST

The Low-Down on Our June 12th Show

Hey Friends! On Tue Jun 12th we're doing a Frantic celebration at the Parkside Lounge (317 Houston b/n Ave B & C) at 9pm. We're celebrating the celebrities: Kas the bassist and Anthony the guitari...
Posted by Frantic Turtle on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:31:00 PST

Frantically on May 17th

Dear Frantic Friends,   Do you know what Frank London said when his band Klezmatics received a Grammy this year? "Thanks for this, but I always wanted to play with Frantic Turtle."    ...
Posted by Frantic Turtle on Tue, 01 May 2007 08:18:00 PST

Stone Me Tonic

Yeah of course, I too mourn the closing of the Tonic. Home to the truly experimental music, so many memories of fantastic life-changing shows. I was there last Monday to hear Steve...
Posted by Frantic Turtle on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:28:00 PST

Frank London Excitement!!!

Word!! Frank London just confirmed - we'll be opening for his band on May 17th. Frank's Klezmatics won a long-deserved Grammy this year. Many pple will agree that Klezmatics are the band responsible f...
Posted by Frantic Turtle on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:21:00 PST

Modulating Tongues

Uh!! Ha! Another Frantic show is coming up!! Thu March 8th, 7.30pm @ the Bowery Poetry Club. This time we're honored to share the bill with Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, a fantastic Israeli jazz vocalist. Her...
Posted by Frantic Turtle on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:02:00 PST

The show on Thu Feb 8th

Friends! The next Frantic show is really soon - Thu Feb 8th, 7.30pm at the Bowery Poetry Club. This one is called "Dialectics of Distortion", we'll be digging into all sorts of distortions of art &...
Posted by Frantic Turtle on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:03:00 PST