Cf 5UU's, Motor Totemist Guild, Present

U TOTEM: U TOTEM (1990)
-One nail draws another
-Two looks at one end
-Dance of the awkward
-Both  your houses
-Yellow umbrella gallery
-The judas goat
-Vagabonds home

Sanjay Kumar: piano, elec keyb,sitar
David Kerman: drums, percu, tapes
Eric Johnson: bassoon, contrabassoon, soprano sax
Emily Hay: voice, flute, piccolo
James Grigsby: guit, bass, vibraphone, tapes
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Kaoru, Howard SHepard, Maria Moran, Becky Heninger, Herb Diamant, Curt WIlson, Greg Conway, Georgia Grigsby, Rod Poole, Daev Lizmi, Miriam Meyer
Engineers: Curt Wilson, Bob Drake

Inspiré des thèmes les plus tordus de l'école Canterbury, ce groupe de Totemists reprend le Rock In Opposition là où  Henry Cow l'avait laissé ( U Totem est en fait la réunion de Motor Totemist Guild et 5UU's). Breaks surprises, mélodies-fanfares succédants à d'inquiétants passages glauques et malsains, chant hautain et décalé, rythmes cassés...c'est très fort et c'est heureusement encore densément rock  ! Incontournable pour qui se délecte dans la complexité...

U TOTEM:participation à UNSETTLED SCORES (1995)
-Carousel, dedicated to Hugh (Patrice Meyer du Hugh Hopper's band/ Hugh Hopper )

Sanjay Kumar: keyboards
David Kerman: percu
Eric Johnson-Tamai: bassoon
Emily Hay: flute, voice
James Grigsby: bass guit

U TOTEM:STRANGE ATTRACTORS (1995)
-No mo ippon
-Daikon Batake
-Ginger tea
-Another june sky
-kARUCHA Shokku
-January sky
-Purple smoke
-Tipps
-Agent white fox
-Chen's gate
-Postacard
-Redskin
-Another ginger tea

Sanjay Kumar: keyb
David Kerman: drums, percu
Eric Johnson-Tamai: bassoon
Emily Hay: voice, flute, piccolo
James Grigsby: guit, bass