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Disco Volante (CD)

By: Mr. Bungle (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Disco Volante (CD) Album By Mr. Bungle (Artist)
1   Everyone I Went To High School With Is Dead
2   Chemical Marriage
3   Carry Stress In The Jaw
4   Desert Search For Techno Allah
5   Violenza Domestica
6   After School Special
7   Phlegmatics
8   Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz
9   The Bends: Man Overboard / The Drowning Flute / Aqua Swing / Follow The Bubbles / Duet For Guitar And Oxygen Tank / Nerve Damage / Screaming Bends / Panic In Blue / Love On The Event Horizon / Re-Entry
10   Backstrokin'
11   Platypus
12   Merry Go Bye Bye
 

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Review

Q (4/96, p.100) - 2 Stars - Average - "...A tad anarchic Zappa, a touch devilish David Lynch, Disco Volante is not for the aurally fragile, but it may offer a smile to the more hardy avant-garde listener..."
Melody Maker (1/27/96, p.35) - "...inhabits that Majorly grey area where high-art blurs into high-noodling....akin to getting lost in a sprawling, dimly lit and dilapidated mansion. By the end of it, you're stumbling into rooms even the owners don't go in any more..."

Title Note

Mr. Bungle: Mike Patton (vocals, organ, ocarina, sound effects); Trey "Uncooked Meat Prior To State Vector Collapse" Spruance (guitar, organ, keyboards, electronics, sound effects); Theo (E-flat reeds); Clinton McKinnon (clarinet, tenor saxophone, keyboards, drums); Trevor Roy Dunn (bass); I Quit (woodblock).

Additional personnel: Lisandro Adrover (bandoneon); Graham Connah (piano); William Winant (cymbals, bongos, tablas, kanjira, sistrums, Jew's harp, percussion, xylophone, glockenspiel).

Recorded at Brilliant Studios, Hyde Street Studios, Coast Recorders and Shotwell Bomb Factory, San Francisco; Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland, California.

Taking cues from Frank Zappa, Carl Stalling and John Zorn, and dabbling in styles as disparate as lounge, death-metal and downtown jazz, Mr. Bungle create a schizophrenic sound unlike any '90s major-label band save for The Boredoms. Yet where The Boredoms approach their music from two specific sources (free jazz and punk), Mr. Bungle easily triple or quadruple that figure when listing their influences. As with other genre-bending progressive music, the obvious question is do they pull it off?

On DISCO VOLANTE, they do quite nicely, thank you. Whether it is on the Middle East-inflected "Desert Search For Techno Allah," or on complex pieces like "The Bends," Mr. Bungle use hypnotic sounds, jarring noise and tight playing to convey their drug-soaked and semi-insane point of view to the world. The juxtaposition of styles works well--both from track to track (the extra heavy "Everyone I Went To School With Is Dead" is followed by the lounge jazz number, "Chemical Marriage") and within a single song ("Merry Go Bye Bye" leaps from a '50's rock sing-along to death-metal meltdown). Lyrically, Mr. Bungle piece together as many strange images as they do musically--"Carry Stress In The Jaw" quotes extensively from Edgar Allen Poe, while "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz" seems to be written in a language all its own.

Tough to listen to but rewarding, Mr. Bungle place themselves alongside groups like The Melvins, Praxis and Naked City, all trying to push the sonic envelope further out.

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