Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is a band (or perhaps a performance ensemble) that was formed in 1999 in Oakland, CA.
Performance & Stage Persona
The band tours frequently. They have played often in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles Area, but also have travelled the U.S. via tour bus.Live performances have featured puppet shows, pseudo-scientific scholarly presentations, and performances by members of the Butoh group [inkBoat].
The band uses many homemade devices as instruments, such as the viking row-boat. Rathbun plays a custom-made (perhaps self-made?) stringed bass instrument which uses piano strings and is perhaps 7 feet long; it is played with two sticks: one in the left hand generally used as a fret, another in the right hand striking the strings. Mellender's percussion instruments consist of restaurant kitchen equipment, trash can lids, and other "found" metal objects, in addition to traditional percussion instruments.
Their music can be categorized as avant-prog or avant-rock, but is also categorized as "uncategorizable". This may be the most accurate category for their music.
As of January 2006, the band has signed to The End Records and plans to release a new album on the label in March 2007. A reissue of the first album Grand Opening and Closing with two previously unreleased tracks is also in the works.
Discography
- (2001) Grand Opening and Closing
- (2003) Live
- (2004) Of Natural History
- (2005) The Face DVD with Shinichi Momo Koga(DVD)
Related Projects
- The Book of Knots: Bossi; 2004
- *Kihlstedt appears on one cut.
- * Arclight Records AR05
- Charming Hostess: Frykdahl, Rathbun, Kihlstedt; "Charming Hostess: Big Band" (1998?)
- Faun Fables:' Frykdahl; 1999-current
- Idiot Flesh: Fryldahl, Rathbun; 1985-1999
- Immersion Composition Society: Mellender (co-founder), Rathbun, Kihlstedt, Bossi; 2001 - Present
- inkBoat: Frykdahl, Rathbun;
- MOE!KESTRA!: Staiano; 1997 - current
- Skeleton Key: Bossi; date?
- Species Being: Grau;
- Thin Pillow: by David Shamrock; 2004
- *Kihlstedt appears on two cuts
- *Includes alternate arrangement of "Ambugaton", performed by SGM on "Grand Opening And Closing"
- Thinking Plague: Shamrock;
- Tin Hat Trio: Kihlstedt; 2000-2004
- Two Foot Yard: Kihlstedt; 2005-current
External links
- [Sleepytime Gorilla Museum] official web site
- [Charming Hostess] official web site
- [Faun Fables] official web site
- [Moe! Staiano] official web site
- [Tin Hat Trio] official web site
- [Immersion Composition Society] official web site
- [inkBoat] official web site
- [Thinking Plague official web site] and [Thinking Plague on Cuneiform Records]
- [Ambugaton!] Live photographs of SGM covering 2002 and 2003 by David J. Grossman
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