Frank Garvey : keyboards, vocals, guitar, drums, robots
Diana Rosa : vocals
Daniel Berkman : guitar, kora, keyboard, drums
Joan Loon : vocals
Anne Goldmann : vocals
Stefy : vocals
Steve Hart : vocals
Ronch Ambers : robots, projections
Dave Gursom : guitar, bass, banjo, vocals
Stuart Hall : performance
Legore the Magnificent : vocals
Linden : guitar, vocals, performance
Carl Pisaturo : robots
The LADIES Auxiliary of the JUNIOR DRAGONS of MYSTERY
featuring Wanda the Water Witch, P-Coq and DIA
And the Highly Sexually Sought-after CAN'T AFFORDIAN of the ACCORDIAN -
SPACECAT THOMAS
Influences
Jimi Hendrix
Leon Trotsky
Grateful Dead
Mr. Bungle
Captain Beefheart
Bertolt Brecht
Country Joe and the Fish
Iannis Xenakis
Harriet Tubman
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Ludwig von Beethoven
John Coltrane
Diane Arbus
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Fantomas
Charlie Kaufman
Frank Zappa
Barry Melton
Dead Can Dance
Henry Moore
Townes van Zandt
Harry Partch
Jefferson Airplane
John Coltrane
Sebastiao Salgado
Nikolai Tesla
Del McCoury
Tom Waits
Rosa Luxemburg
Mike Oldfield
David Lynch
Luis Bunuel
Sam Beckett
John Brown
Orson Welles
Michel Gondry
Herman Melville
Sam Shepard
Thomas Paine
Dante Alighieri
Joel Peter Witkin
Elvin Jones
Hieronymus Bosch
James Joyce
Francisco Goya
Auguste Rodin
Pablo Picasso
Charles Bukowski
Squarepusher
Art Blakey
Malcolm X
Che Guevara
Leonardo da Vinci
Buddy Rich
Sounds Like
the BIG BANG
formation of galaxies and planets
finally life, then humanity
love
and inevitable betrayal
OmniCircus Junkyard Cabaret and Robot Ensemble is a performing ensemble and film production company. It was founded in 1988 by composer-artist Frank Garvey. Our live shows integrate dark-industrial cabaret with life-sized surreal robotics and midi-controlled virtual-reality (VRpit) performers. Our movies run the gamut from music-video shorts to surreal documentaries to full-on feature length musical-drama such as our recently completed 3-hour film WALL of ASHES. OmniCircus' performing ensemble, DeusMachina, has a catalog of recordings on the Gate 6 label and the American Composer's Forum innova label.
The Robotic Ensemble of the OmniCircus is a mechanical red-light district, a troupe of mechanical beggars, hookers, junkies and street-preachers who appear in OmniCircus shows and engage in mysterious cyborg guerilla theater on the city streets.
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Greetings. I just wanted to thank you for your continued support and invite you to have a first listen on myspace to the tracks off the new EP "Monster & Minstrel" due out later this month. Bright stars to you! Ahmond
Recorded: live on March 16, 2003 at the Beta Lounge in San Francisco
In 1967, San Francisco’s Fifty Foot Hose were certainly one of the
innovators of a sound that took Psychedelia to new heights and was
captured on the band’s one record, Cauldron. They are a totally
unique hybrid—on one hand pulsating bay area acid rock, on the other,
fractured electronic freakery, becoming one whole cohesive being. The
sci-fi-ish video game-like artwork hinted at the sounds within, as did
the Limelight label’s pedigree for truly progressive sounds. Band
leader, Cork Marcheschi, used homemade electronic devices to create
crude and experimental soundscapes and instrumental compositions that
were sprinkled throughout the album.
Often starting shows with a swelling rumble that exploded into the
first song, they soon developed a rabid following on the SF scene,
though there was the occasional totally wrong gig, like when a
very-pregnant Nancy had to perform at a Catholic Girls’ school! Still,
the group wowed the crowds, performing with greats like Chuck Berry and
Fairport Convention.
Hi everybody, I recommend to check out this great tour, two solo acts from the well known Acid Mothers Temple and my OvO!
On tour on the West Coast!
KAWABATA MAKOTO & ?ALOS
West Coast tour 2009 thu 10/29 - Portland, OR @ Berbati's (w/ Earth, SubArachnoid Space)
fri 10/30 - Seattle, WA @ Dissonant Plane Records
sat 10/31 - Seattle, WA @ Rendezvous Jewelbox Theater (w/ Amber Asylum, Thrones, Sugar Skulls) mon 11/02 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Blue Lagoon
tue 11/03 - San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock (w/ 3 Leafs)
wed 11/04 - Los Angeles, CA @ Mountain Bar (w/ Exhausted Prayer)
thu 11/05 - Fresno, CA @ Tokyo Garden
sat 11/07 - Eureka, CA @ Jambalaya www.myspace.com/kawabatamakoto www.myspace.com/signorinaalos www.signorinaalos.com
www.last.fm/music/Kawabata+Makoto http://www.lastfm.it/music/%253FaloS?ac=%3FaloS Makoto Kawabata - "Acid Mother Temple"
Thanks for the ADD. We are happy to have you on your MySpace friendslist. We also have a regular website called: http://www.rewo-records.com where all reviews of the albums can be read, and albums can be bought.
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