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Came across a couple of interesting interviews that I thought I would share:

www.self-titledmag.com/2008/02/27/qa-with-crudo-interview-by-andrew-parks (hat-tip to AJ @ MOTO)
synthesisradio.net/2008/02/21/mike-patton-february-2008 (hat-tip to Davania @ MOTO) Download the interview: http://www.synthesisradio.net/beats/patton.mp3

Tidbits from the synthersisradio audio interview:

• A soon to be released dvd of the fantomas melvins bigband
• A Summer release for the Mondo Cane album
• Mike performs most of the stuff for the A Perfect Place OST. He brought in a couple of percussionists and a couple of horn players but most was done with his keyboard and samples

Recent rumours regarding a possible album release or tour by Fantômas have been well and truely quashed by Andy of cv.org fame. Official word is that:

“there is no immediate Fantômas plans, and they expect any future plans to be at least 2 years out.  So don’t hold your breath for a 2008/2009 tour.”

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Mike Patton is to appear on another game, Turtle Rock Studio’s (now owned by Valve, creators of the Half Life series, Steam and the Source engine) multiplayer co-operative survival horror, Left 4 Dead. Based on the Source Engine, the game teams 4 players up against a horde of infected zombies.

Due for a release 30th September 2008.

The latest collaboration between Mike Patton and Dan the Automator, Crudo (described as “strange and bizarre R n’ B”) is to debut live at the Sasquatch Festival. No news on an album release date (rumoured 2009 release). The festival runs from the 24th to the 26th of May 2008.

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Mike will be voicing Nathan Spencer in the upcoming Capcom release, Bionic Commando, a remake of the 1988 NES game of the same name. There is still no release date as yet for the game.

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Mike Patton and Stian Carstensen play together at the Borealis Festival on the 26th Feb at Logen Teater Bergen.

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Announcement:

“ The official companion EP to Palace of Mirrors CD and DVD, available exclusively as a download from Lobefood. You wouldn’t necessarily be wrong in calling this a “Palace of Mirrors” leftovers bin. Perhaps for the hardcore Estradasphere fans only, the Pegasus Vault sheds further light on the Palace CD and DVD thematic material. At one point or another, everything on here was destined for the Palace CD. Despite the ‘cutting room floor’ nature, this really makes a great playing EP that works on it’s own. This also gives fans the ability to start making their own playlists of the complete Palace. In addition to the EP you will also get an extras folder of stuff that didn’t fit the flow of the EP. Over an hour of new tracks on this download brings the Palace Era officially to a close.
Audio trailer available at http://www.myspace.com/lobefood”

New Zealand rockers Shihad, a favourite of now defunct Faith No More, are preparing to release their 7th full length album entitled “Beautiful Machine”.

The album is due to hit the streets in April and the band is currently touring Australia on the back of the release of their latest single. The new single “One will hear the other” has hit radios and is quite a cool tune. Listen to it at their myspace.

Tour dates:

Feb 23 Caringbah Bizzos
Feb 26 Orange Ex-Services Club
Feb 27 Oxford Tavern
Feb 28 Capital Nightclub
Feb 29 Edge Hotel
Mar 1 Pretoria Hotel
Mar 2 Fowler’s Live
Mar 5 Hallam Hotel
Mar 6 Village Green Hotel
Mar 7 21st Century Nightclub
Mar 8 Ferntree Gully Hotel
Mar 9 Westernport Hotel – San Remo
Mar 12 Hoey Moey
Mar 13 Great Northern Hotel
Mar 16 The Sands Tavern

Mike lends his vocals to track 7 on the new yet to be released Praxis album – Profanation. The track is entitled “Larynx”.

The album also features Serj Tankian, Brain, Buckethead, Bernie Worrell , Bill Laswell, Otomo Yoshihide and a host of others. Download “larynx” here.

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