Music:
Member Since: 5/24/2006
Band Members: Soon, SOON the world will know. And then who will laugh? Who will laugh???!!!.
Influences: Jimmie Rodgers, Arthur Machen, Harry Partch, Hank, Petunia, Stompin' Tom, Adana, Selim Sessler, Scruggs, The Slits, Hogscraper, Capleton, Cutty Ranks, The Magic Band, Arvo Part, the song "Africa" by Toto, the Chaldaean Oracles, Johnny Cash, Waits, Bix, The Situationists, Jelly Roll Morton, Robert Johnson, that amazing, unnamed 78 version of Riders in the Sky I found in a Melbourne junkyard sale, Leadbelly, E.R. Dodds, Bobby Hutcherson, Dada, Andrew Hill and that whole 60's abstract but still hard bop Blue Note sound, Rumi, Muhyidin Ibn al-'Arabi, P.E., B.D.P., Mulattu Astatke, Prince Far I, Vachel Lindsay, Iamblichus, Martin Denny, Yma Sumac, the Monks, Sun Ra (of course), Prince Far I, Igor Stravinsky, & then some.
Sounds Like: The absquatulation of a tortoise on a Sturmey-Archer-3-speed-equipped Italian Pedalmaster in a Fortean frog-rainstorm.
Record Label: Picnic Prawn
Type of Label: Major