Volcano the Bear
Classic Erasmus Fusion
Beta-Lactam Ring 2006
01. Classic Erasmus Fusion
02. Did You Ever Feel Like Jesus?
03. The Merry Potter
04. Ong Pâté
05. Russian Milk
06. Baroque Sensation
07. Sharp as the Queens Teeth
08. Hey Judo
09. Baltic Minor
10. Lifetime
11. Classic Autumn Fusion
01. Hail the New Mephisto
02. The Last Song of Norway
03. Shadowfishing
04. My Favourite Tongues
05. Erasmus, the Queens Dentist
06. See Me Now
Best "sound collage" LP of century: Classic Erasmus Fusion.
Describing Volcano the Bear's music is about as difficult as identifying the instruments. The quartet's arsenal of gear is transcendant of time and space, culled from different cultures and different eras, from classically orchestral woodwinds (albeit sometimes just blowing through the mouthpiece) to African thumb piano, helicopter sounds, thunderstorm and rain and running water, medieval squeeze boxes, squeak toys, chirping or crying bird sounds, and Asian stringed things. While improvisation has been integral to the band's development, Volcano the Bear can always be counted on very cold-calculated and composed songs appearing on their official studio albums. Their arrangement is loose but never wanky or show-offey. Perhaps it's this lack of soloing and pretention that has kept them from appropriate recognition by some of the major experimental media in favor for a whole "free folk"/"weird rock"/"new weird America" obsession.
>> mihd (114mb) (d-_-b)Describing Volcano the Bear's music is about as difficult as identifying the instruments. The quartet's arsenal of gear is transcendant of time and space, culled from different cultures and different eras, from classically orchestral woodwinds (albeit sometimes just blowing through the mouthpiece) to African thumb piano, helicopter sounds, thunderstorm and rain and running water, medieval squeeze boxes, squeak toys, chirping or crying bird sounds, and Asian stringed things. While improvisation has been integral to the band's development, Volcano the Bear can always be counted on very cold-calculated and composed songs appearing on their official studio albums. Their arrangement is loose but never wanky or show-offey. Perhaps it's this lack of soloing and pretention that has kept them from appropriate recognition by some of the major experimental media in favor for a whole "free folk"/"weird rock"/"new weird America" obsession.
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what an excellent site you have here! i'm impressed. Lots of stuff i've never heard of, which sounds totally cool. Checkin' out volcano the bear and probably just about everything else you have. If you, or anyone reading this, care to correspond or talk shit about music or life or whatever, i can be contacted at j.sonicwarfare@gmail.com. Thanks again!
-sonicwarfare
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