Cf U Totem, 5UU's

La réunion de 5UU's et MTG donnera U Totem (cf.leur section). Ceux qui se sentent l'âme d'aventuriers en matière de musique peuvent déjà essayer le plus " progressif ", c'est à dire 5UU's, ou le plus contemporain, c'est à dire U Totem. Ensuite ils peuvent vouloir aller plus loin et écouter MTG... mais qu'ils ne s'attendent surtout pas à reconnaître quelque chose d'identifiable: c'est bel et bien une musique extra-terrestre !

MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD: ARCHIVE ONE (CD, 1996):
INFRA DIG (1984)
-Edison games
-Aunt Iodine
-Get angry
-Mute tape process
-The totem motorist
-Humus maskaself
-Stares in steps
-Insular phantastikos
-Lap over chop over ring
-In sackcloth and ashes

James Grigsby: compo, guit, bass, Chapman stick, keyb, trumpet, vibraphone, percu, voice, loops and splices
Becky Heninger: cello
Lynn Johnston: clarinets, saxophones
Christine Clements: clarinet, saxophones, piano, percu, voice, vocoder
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Iris Alberts: voc
Nigel Bladen: drums
David Brown: guit
Thomas Dodge: xylophone, drums, percu, alto sax, keyb, loops
David Goodman: piano
Stuart Hathaway: guit
Billy Paul: synth, guit
Eric trauss: drums, percu, vibraphone, tenor sax

CONTACT WITH VEILS (1986)
-Unterm rad
-Nigh
-A mixture og guise
-Felis Felicific
-Cuneiform

James Grigsby: compo, guit, bass, Chapman stick, keyb, trumpet, vibraphone, percu, voice, loops and splices
Becky Heninger: cello
Lynn Johnston: clarinets, saxophones
Christine Clements: clarinet, saxophones, piano, percu, voice, vocoder
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Ken Ando: manuscript
Jeff Falkner: bass viol
Kraig Grady: percu
David Kerman: drums, percu
Winston Smith: the wheel
Maw Win: voc

5 UU's with the MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD: ELEMENTS (1986)
-Ignominies
-Imperfections
-Resentments
-Acknowledgements
-Elements
-In life's hands
-The artist
-Causes of merit
-The futility of oneness

Jon Beck: bass
David Kerman: drums, keyb, guit
Curt Wilson: voc
Greg Conway: guit
Sanjay Kumar: keyb
and the MTG:
James Grigsby: bass, keyb, guit, vibes, snake flute, trumpet
Emily Hay: flute
Becky Heininger: cello
Lynn Johnston: woddwinds
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Ken Ando: guit
Gene Carl: piano
Eric Johnson: bassoon
Chuk Turner: keyb

THE RASCAL REPORTERS: HAPPY ACCIDENTS (1988):
Weigh in on the way-out:
-Pilgrim's pride
-The Chalky substance variations
-Karen's Chalky pilgrim
Trucks:
-Thunderstruck
-Moonstruck

Steve Gore: keyb, elec guit, bass, melodica, drum set, percu, voice
Steve Kretzmer: keyb, melodica, elec guit, bass, drum set, percu
GUESTS:
Didkovsky: guit (from DOCTOR NERVE)
Steve Feigenbaum: guit
Lecy Fredo: violin
James Grigby: percu (from MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD)
Dave Kerman: percu (from 5UU's)
Paul Kretzmer: bass
Dave Newhouse: flûte, sax (from THE MUFFINS)
Guy Segers: bass (from UNIVERS ZERO)

MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD: ARCHIVE TWO (CD, 1997)

MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD: CITY OF MIRRORS (1999)
-Tower of London
-Scarfnet
-Narcotic Lollipop
-Prudes vs libertines
-Bixby slough
-Blood in the tower

Emily Hay: voc, flute
Curt Wilson: voc
Vinny Golia: clar, sax
Lynn Johnston: clar, sax
Eric Johnston-Tamai: bassoon
Jeff Kaiser: trumpet
George McMullen: trombone
Jerry Wheeler: trombone
Bridget Convey: piano, synth
Jeremy Keller: guit
Brad Dutz: marimba, vibraphone
Hannes Giger: contrabass
Joseph Berardi: drums
David Kerman: drums (1,6), percu
James Grigsby: computer, surrogate baton

Wouah ! Un big band au service des folies curieuses computorisées de sieur Grigsby ?! Notez que 3 des mocreaux dépassent le quart d'heure et que "Bixby" est enregsitré live (si: ils l'ont fait). Musique indomptable par excellence, il semble qu'on ne puisse jamais la connaître par coeur ! Compositions "so british", en hommage au style Canterbury mais beaucoup plus complexes et déroutantes. Jamais agressif, toujours surprenant !

MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD: ALL AMERICA CITY (2000)
(Music from the soundtrack of the motion picture YU GAKUSEI)
-The blue lantern
-Close shot of attache case
-Stardust mobile estates
-Parachute kids
-Friendly liquors
-Hostess with whipped cream cannister
-Shocks hardware
-Exterior dilapidated shack
-Ron's barbary coast
-Strip mall with gas station and Izakaya
-Nader's furniture
-Ron's barbary coast nude
-Edge of the cliff
-Hinoki
-Donut king
-Obese mice
-Town motel
-DJ Tiki Torch
-Sandy Vitale dance studio
-Chapatsu girls
-Amaterasu
-Yamatonadeshiko
-From Reiko's P.OV.

Bridget Convey: piano
Rod Poole: ac guit
Hannes Giger: contrabass
David Kerman: drums
James Grigsby: comptuters, samplers, compo, etc...
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THE UNWITTING ACCOMPLICES
Lynn Johnston: sax
Tom Watson: feedback
Belinda Cheng: air and water
Sanjay Kumar: sardar
Kaori Grigsby: voice
Luigi Futi: sketchbook