Les Claypool: Of Fungi and Foe
Copy at Case Memorial Library
From the notes by Mr. Claypool: "Sometime back I was commissioned to write soundtrack music for two projects that promised to have quite a bit of very intense and unique imagery. One was for an interactive game about a meteor that hits Earth and brings intelligence to the mushrooms within the crash proximity and the other was about a three thousand pound wild boar that terrorizes the marijuana fields of Northern California. … This music became the foundation of the songs that fill this collection. With a few added tidbits and gypsy sauce. …"
Jeff Noise wrote in the New Haven Advocate: "Les Claypool is to this generation what Frank Zappa was to his … a tweaker of genre, a comic story-teller, and maestro of the odd composition. Why, it even sounds like Ruth Underwood on vibes … like Terrence McKenna producing a recording project between Tom Waits and Man Man along with the best bass lines you could hope for … oh, if only some deviant would book Les Claypool to open up a show on this Fleetwood Mac reunion tour! Imagine the apoplectic shock!" ("Stripwax," 4/9/09, p. 29).
From the notes by Mr. Claypool: "Sometime back I was commissioned to write soundtrack music for two projects that promised to have quite a bit of very intense and unique imagery. One was for an interactive game about a meteor that hits Earth and brings intelligence to the mushrooms within the crash proximity and the other was about a three thousand pound wild boar that terrorizes the marijuana fields of Northern California. … This music became the foundation of the songs that fill this collection. With a few added tidbits and gypsy sauce. …"
Jeff Noise wrote in the New Haven Advocate: "Les Claypool is to this generation what Frank Zappa was to his … a tweaker of genre, a comic story-teller, and maestro of the odd composition. Why, it even sounds like Ruth Underwood on vibes … like Terrence McKenna producing a recording project between Tom Waits and Man Man along with the best bass lines you could hope for … oh, if only some deviant would book Les Claypool to open up a show on this Fleetwood Mac reunion tour! Imagine the apoplectic shock!" ("Stripwax," 4/9/09, p. 29).
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