The genre-bending musical menagerie known as Wighat was born in early 2006 to singer/frontperson Rubi Cuautle and drummer P. I. Navarro. Guitarist Josh Cochran, bassist Chris Blaisc, and multi-instrumentalists David Fountain and Dave Daniels round out the eclectic line-up. Wighat strives to make each of their compositions as collaborative as possible in order to come up with new sounds and song structures. Their live shows build upon an electric tension between harmony and dissonance, and this energy has steadily drawn larger and larger audiences. Wighat is currently recording their debut release at Wonder Root with Rob Gal.
A few entries from P.I. Peruke's forthcoming encyclopedic historical treatise 10,000 Steps Toward a New and Improved You: The Secret Order of the Wighat: ____________________________________________________________
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2200 BCE: Mesopotamia--First wighat constructed for King "Great King" Elulu of Mesopotamia whose natural hair had been chewed off by the King of a rival power. This wighat was constructed out of rare mosses imported from distant lands and was topped off by the king's personal emblem of a crown made of bird's nest and eggs. ____________________________________________________________
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1800 BCE: Egypt--Presumably bald pharoah (name unknown) was buried with a collection of over 1000 wighats made of gold, jewels, papyrus, and what is believed to have been pubic hair.
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1917 CE: Finland--Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov "Lenin" fled to Finland and wore a wighat to disguise his well-shaped but prominent bald head after taking part in a a failed bolshevik uprising.
