Artist: Estradasphere
Genre(s):
Indie
Rock
ROck: Alternative
Discography:
Palace of Mirrors
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Quadropus
Year: 2003
Tracks: 8
Silent Elk of Yesterday
Year: 2001
Tracks: 18
It's Understood
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Buck Fever
Year: 2001
Tracks: 16
Unmistakably derived from the genre-bending loins of data-based rockers Mr. Bungle and Secret Chiefs 3, Estradasphere respectfully lives up to the challenging musical aims of their wildly talented mentors. Tim Harris, violin and trumpet, Dave Murray, drums, Jason Schimmel, guitar and banjo, bassist Tim Smolens, and John Wooley, sax, met in the late '90s at the U.C.-Santa Cruz school of music, where they shared an interest in the tackiest aspects of pop culture and the to the highest degree excessive forms of music.
Their first record album, It's Understood, appeared with following to no commercial-grade fanfare in the leap of 2000 as the number one spillage on Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance's homespun label Mimicry Records. Their feverish ruffle of jazz, alloy, video recording game themes, and blue grass was eaten up by hard-core Mr. Bungle fans, merely went largely unnoticed elsewhere. With instrumentality resembling Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Estradasphere doesn't ever call forth immediate sonic comparisons to Mr. Bungle, merely their manic, short-attention-span philosophy of writing apparently does. Drawing on influences all over the musical spectrum, a great deal inside the same birdcall, Estradasphere amply demonstrates the breadth of their technical musical talent on a song-by-song basis. Although their first album doesn't certify the conciseness of Mr. Bungle or Secret Chiefs 3, it stretches out as an telling musical landscape for such a young set of musicians.
Accompanied onstage by a collecting of Bohemian artists, ranging from fire-breathers to book-readers, Estradasphere exudes an excess of vernal muscularity and creativity, which, with a decorous amount of packaging, could finally grant them a solid resistance following.
