Founding members Jason Berry and Michael de la Cuesta began the musical heresy known as Vacuum Tree Head in the autumn of 1989, collaborating with some 142 musicians over these years (every vacuum tree head performance would be known to have a different line up as well as new roster of songs) to the point where most vth members couldn't even keep track themselves. vacuum tree head became an unstoppable shapeshifting monstrosity from performing with a ballet troupe to doing single 42'-42" song suite drone zone minwarp known as tar hai wizard (an homage to artist moebius) to tape editing and cut-up collage style mayhem (aum carve etude "h" ) to klezmer-flamenco freak outs to prog-punk fusion with spanish lyrics sung in a cambodian pop style (coal vig and bakuretsu fukio) to electric-12 tone chamber jazz ragas ("13" and the nancy luna suite) to covering a song for a sun ra tribute and anything else that got in the way.
Inner Ear Brigade is a collective band of musicians who seek to write tunes that transport you to the outer reaches of the Universe, that stretch the boundaries of perception, and I forgot the last thing, but if you show up to see them live you will remember what Im talking about, dig? The songs are one part rock and one part jazz, but not quite the virtuosic masturbation of fusion. Twisting odd meters and harmonies drive the songs towards and original sound. Doug Port - drums Max Stoffegren - keys Bill Wolter - guitar Rob Fix - bass.
The Assdroids exist as Pisces Motherfucker on guitar/vox and Big Daddy Mugglestone on drums/vox. Together they burn the bridge between breakcore and ecstatic jazz, spilling the gap that divides the Boredoms from Merzbow. This first release demonstrates the power of bad computer intellect mixed with too much beer and lack of sex. Mix in some jarbled world music samples and Richard Pryor, and the result is something that DRAG Magazine hailed as: “Lightning Bolt teamed up with an army of computerized insects for an after-school beating of the Blood Bros.”
Cost: $6-10