It's been some time since my last post... I really only like to post albums, I can't help but share. These two albums really take me somewhere else.. It's like the Octopus Project had disected part of my brain and maid some music! Perhaps, some of the best music I've heard all year..
Info:
The Octopus Project is an American indietronica band based in Austin, Texas. Its unique sound, blending pop and experimental elements, is a combination of digital and electronic sounds and noises (including drum machine, keyboard, synthesizers and other devices) and analog equipment (including guitars and live drums). Its music is mostly instrumental.
On April 30, 2006, the band played the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. They were offered the opportunity after a fan, unbeknownst to the band, entered them in a contest held by the festival on MySpace in which voters were to "nominate their favorite band for an open slot at the festival".[1][2]
In 2007, the Octopus Project supported underground hip-hop star Aesop Rock on his national tour.
Members
All members are known to switch instruments live (for instance, Josh Lambert playing drums while Toto Miranda plays guitar, or Yvonne Lambert playing guitar while Josh Lambert operates the electronics), but each member can be said to play a primary instrument.
Josh Lambert: guitar, bass, keyboards
Toto Miranda: drums, guitar, bass
Yvonne Lambert: samplers, keyboards, theremin, glockenspiel, guitar
Ryan Figg: guitar, bass, keyboards
[edit] Discography
Ryan Figg and Josh Lambert exchange guitars in the midst of a song in San Francisco, August 2008.[edit] Albums
Identification Parade (2002)
One Ten Hundred Thousand Million (2005)
Hello, Avalanche (2007)
[edit] Splits, remixes, singles and EPs
Christmas on Mars (EP, Soda Pop Productions, 1999)
Black Octopus Lipstick Project Foam Party (Peek-A-Boo Records, 2004)
The House of Apples and Eyeballs (Collaboration with Black Moth Super Rainbow, Graveface Records, 2006)
Wet Gold/Moon Boil (7" Peek-a-Boo records, 2007)
Golden Beds (EP, Peek-A-Boo Records, 2009)
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