miRthkon "Snack(s)" is now available!

[Lebofsky]

People of earth! The newest miRthkon album "Snack(s)" is now available for CD purchase directly from us at any of our current European tour dates, and upon our return to the US at the end of September. Until then you can also hear it/download it at bandcamp:

http://mirthkon.bandcamp.com/album/snack-s

It's an epic journey through time and space and mud and sweat and fear and loathing and love and rage. A reflection on the grotesque cycle of life.

Thank you for listening,

- Matt

[adewolf]

Another excellent release. I will be getting this. Thanks!

[PeterG]

Love it! That is Fugging brilliant!!! Reminds me at various times of all of the following: Old Fruit (UK), Monsoon Bassoon (UK), Map (UK), Pinhead Nation (UK), Fugazi (US), Godley & Creme (L period), Cardiacs (UK), Frank Zappa (Hot Rats/Burnt Weeny period), Pigment Vehicle (Kanadia), Stars in Battledress (UK), and North Sea Radio Orchestra

I shall be purchasing but where/how can I purchase an actual CD?

Listen to these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzlTOWrad6M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vK0hr1B5l0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK-Ias4XZ_Y

[NogbadTheBad]

Yay!! Will pick up in France at RIO.

[It's only me!]

Anxiously waiting for my Kickstarter-funded copy.

[TCC]

GRRREATTT!!.


PeterG wrote:
"Listen to these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzlTOWrad6M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vK0hr1B5l0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK-Ias4XZ_Y "

Tankx Pete!.

Regards.

[Just Eric]

Aw man I am disappointed ..... opened this thread looking for some miRthkon Bits, miRthkon Mix, Cheesy miRthkons, or S'miRthkons.

[tallliman]

Enjoyed that version of Fairies Wear Boots. Where will the CD be available from (to the UK)?

[Scrotum Scissor]

Sounds very interesting. Loved the first one.

[PeterG]

And THIS!!!!!

PEH - Snobs! Listen out for the PF riff and the Cardiacs section 1.40 to 1.50.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF_99Tyl7nc

[PeterG]

Here are P.E.H in all their glory in their alien masks and hi-vis vests

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwSsSBOQQmI

[Steve F.]

wayside music will have physical cds in 12-20 days.

[Polypet]

more toe-tappers from you, Wally and company, i see. always going the top ten route, eh Matt?

my personal favourite there is Eat a Bag of DiX. a perfectly normal piece of music

also Hapax Legomana - some quite lovely moments in there, man. nicely done

best of luck with this release,

Kim

[Peanut Buddha]

Don't you boys know any nice songs?

[No Pride]

Been listening for the past half hour while browsing PE threads. I know it's not the best way to listen, but even so, I thought it was great! Though I can identify some "might be" influences, I think you guys definitely have a distinctive style of your own. Love the thick textures, cluster harmonies and the blend of saxes and guitars; kudos!

[Jefferson James]

Listening thru now -- holy cervix, Batman. Brutiful (brutal/beautiful).

[thedunno]

Rave review on the German baby-blaue seiten. It is also picked as 'tip-of-the-month"
http://www.babyblaue-seiten.de/album_13725.html#oben

Anxiously awaiting my kickstart copy :-)

[zombywoof]

Wow. This record is totally killer. That's all there is to it...

[NogbadTheBad]

Very very impressed, love it.

[AndyB]

Love it! That is Fugging brilliant!!! Reminds me at various times of all of the following: Old Fruit (UK), Monsoon Bassoon (UK), Map (UK), Pinhead Nation (UK), Fugazi (US), Godley & Creme (L period), Cardiacs (UK), Frank Zappa (Hot Rats/Burnt Weeny period), Pigment Vehicle (Kanadia), Stars in Battledress (UK), and North Sea Radio Orchestra

You just mentioned most of my favourite bands there! Including Pigment Vehicle - I didn't think anyone had heard of them!

[boilk]

Definitely a great release. Been spending a lot of time with it, and I like it better than the first. Seems a bit heavier, and although still unique and original, a little more focused, and direct than the first one. One of the best of 2013, in my book.

neil

[man-erg]

A great record indeed. Didn't expect to hear an arrangement of Barber's Nocturne (!), but beautifully done. I think there's a rich vein to mine for composition-oriented rock bands to create arrangements of compositions by "classical" composers of the early-mid 20th century. Sometimes that music hangs better on a rock band framework than orchestral instruments.

[chalkpie]

A great record indeed. Didn't expect to hear an arrangement of Barber's Nocturne (!), but beautifully done. I think there's a rich vein to mine for composition-oriented rock bands to create arrangements of compositions by "classical" composers of the early-mid 20th century. Sometimes that music hangs better on a rock band framework than orchestral instruments.

Depends on which composers you're talking about I think. Stuff like DSCH, Prokofiev, Bartok, Stravinsky, Schoenberg would translate beautifully, but other music like Sibelius, Ligeti, Debussy, Mahler, Lutoslawski, etc. that is so textural, colorful, and masterfully orchestrated could sound thin and severely watered-down, and possibly just shitty. Zappa was the master at this thing, but went a million other places besides this concept, whereas Denis and Trigeaux were also masters but were more conservative in the overall vision to stay within this "framework". Zappa used to say AAAFNRAA.

[chalkpie]

Here is one that is BEGGING for a chamber rock gig

[chalkpie]

Wow. This record is totally killer. That's all there is to it...

Yeah, BTW! This album is completely stellar, jawdropping, etc. etc.