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Porpoise Corpus

"Album out now - no lower than 4 stars so far."

About Me

Hello there,
We have an ALBUM OUT NOW. You can buy it for the modest sum of £10.99 with free shipping worldwide from here...
http://www.jazzcds.co.uk/artist_id_959/cd_id_1220
Right. I’m fed up of being modest. Everyone who’s reviewed us we’re amazing. A number of our fans rate us as their very favourite band, and our gigs the best they have ever seen. We have been tipped as "Big in 2008" in two major publications at the end of last year, and our last reviewer tipped us for a mercury nomination, so I feel I have the right to say, with little fear of contradiction, we are quite good.
Therefore, if you are a promoter, you’re reading this, and you like us too, PLEASE BOOK US, as all of us have little time to annoy you with unsolicited phone calls. We have gone down equally well on rock stages at open air festivals as we have at jazz clubs, and punters aren’t as frightened of us as you might think.
Here are some other facts about us. I’ll be brief...
We were WINNERS of the PETER WHITTINGHAM AWARD for cutting edge jazz in 2006.
We have been working extensively with the visual artists Dandelion and Burdock (www.dandelion-burdock.com), on extended, interactive, especially commissioned works.
You can check out what else Dave O’Brien, Guy Wood (wampa), Jonthan Bratoeff and Tom Challenger are up to if you check out their pages in "my top friends"
The designer of the Porpoise Corpus logo and album artwork was Robert Shuttleworth, who changes his profile name weekly, but can be found as friend number 2 on the list below.
Our reviews can be seen in the blogs section above. Here are some other less relevant quotations:
"If man’s hands had grown as flukes, the moral might run, he would still be a philosopher, but he would not have the devastating power to wreak his thought on the body of the world. Instead, he would have lived and wandered like the porpoise, his home the currents and winds and oceans; intelligent, but forever only an awed and curious observer of unknown wreckage falling through the blue lights of eternity."
- Net Profit, by Michael J Becker and Shelby Sampson
"Epics," said Hagbard. "They’re mad for epics. They have their whole story for the past forty thousand years in epic form. No books, no writing - how could they handle pens with their fins, you know? All memorization. Which is why they favor poetry. And their poems are marvelous, but you must spend years studying their language before you know that. Our computer turns their works into doggerel. It’s the best it can do. When I have the time, I’ll add some circuits that can really translate poetry from one language to another. When the Porpoise Corpus is translated into human languages, it will advance our culture by centuries or more. It will be as if we’d discovered the works of a whole race of Shakespeares that had been writing for forty millennia."
"On the other hand," said Howard, "your civilizations may be demoralized by culture shock."
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Thanks for stopping by!

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Music:

Member Since: 7/10/2006
Band Website: porpoisecorpus.com
Band Members: Dave "the Dolphin" O'Brien - Keys,
Tom "the Walrus" Ward - Saxes,
Tom "the Fish-Cake" Challenger - Saxes,
Jonathan "the Turtle" Bratoeff - Guitar strings,
Spencer "the Seal" Brown - Basses
Guy "the Starfish" Wood - Drums,

Influences: Jazz, 70's fusion, M-Base, Funk, Heavy Rock and whatever else they can get their fins into.
Record Label: F-IRE Presents...
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Check out this event: Porpoise Mini-tour: This Sunday 30th & Monday 31st

Hosted By: Porpoise Corpus When: 30 Mar 2008, 21:00Where: Sun:Charlie Wright’s. Mon:Con CellarSun:45 Pitfield St,N1.Mon:42 St.Pancras Way,CamdenLondon, London and South East|66 londonUnited King...
Posted by Porpoise Corpus on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:24:00 PST

Our best review yet.

Unfortunately, the law-makers of sod (aka the Iluminati) dictate that our best review will never be published as the man who wrote it - the venerable Ian Mann - was sacked from his job with&...
Posted by Porpoise Corpus on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:36:00 PST

Evening Standard’s "Big in 2008".

BIG IN 2008-PORPOISE CORPUS Amid a throng of incoherent groups operating in that uncharted area where jazz rubs shoulders with punk, rock, free-improv and electronica, Porpoise Corpus stand out like b...
Posted by Porpoise Corpus on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:00:00 PST

****Album reveiw in jazzwise Dec 2007

"A strikingly original debut from keyboardist Dave O'Brien, Porpoise Corpus is among the most intriguing Britjazz albums I've heard all year. The band's fusion of raucous punk fusion, complex, electri...
Posted by Porpoise Corpus on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:54:00 PST

Another nice album review ****

Here's one from the Manchester Evening News.... Alan Brownlee 16/11/2007 **** AMBITIOUS and adventurous jazz of dazzling variety, the fare ranges from buoyant fusion (The Seventh Trip), to haunting lo...
Posted by Porpoise Corpus on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:30:00 PST

A brief review in Jazzwise "News"

Porpoise Corpus, a group led by award winning pianist Dave O'Brien (pictured), launched its debut eponymously titled CD for the F-IRE label this week and performed at London's Vortex club in Dalston l...
Posted by Porpoise Corpus on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:41:00 PST

Album Launch Review in the Evening Standard ****

"They have a daffy name and all look incredibly young, but Porpoise Corpus make seriously good music. Their debut album contains many impressive moments and last night they sounded even better. A sext...
Posted by Porpoise Corpus on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:39:00 PST

Our first album review.

This is from Chris Parker of the Vortex website giving the jazz point of view.  Thanks to him. - "This eponymous debut album from the sextet Porpoise Corpus (their name comes from the fictio...
Posted by Porpoise Corpus on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:52:00 PST

Album to be released on "F-IRE Presents" on November 5th

Remember, remember.  After much shilly-shallying and dilly-dallying a contract with F-IRE records and a release date for our first and self titled album we recorded last year has been confir...
Posted by Porpoise Corpus on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:20:00 PST

New track above.

I got a bit bored of the un-mixed reverb-drenched Neveredending Part 1, and put up the nice dry mixed Neverending Part 2. I hope you enjoy. Dolph.
Posted by Porpoise Corpus on Sun, 27 May 2007 12:03:00 PST