Orange Tulip Conspiracy is back at it again with a full North American tour scheduled for this May. OTC features members of Secret Chiefs 3 and Estradasphere; including guitarist Jason Schimmel, longtime Estradasphere saxophone wizard John Whooley and madman drummer Lee Smith. Now with members from Seattle’s avant music scene this group will melt your face off. Coming to a city near you.

May 1- The Comet Tavern Seattle,WA
May 2- The Tonic Lounge Portland, OR
May 3- The Urban Lounge Salt Lake City, UT
May 4- Hi Dive Denver, CO
May 5- Knickerbockers Lincoln, NE
May 6- TBA Chicago, IL
May 7- TBA Buffalo, MA
May 8- TBA Boston, MA
May 9- The Studio at Webster Hall New York City, NY
May 10- TBA Philadelphia, PA
May 11- TBA Washington, DC
May 12- The Village Tavern Mount Pleasant, SC
May 13- Backstage Lounge Gainesville, FL
May 14- The Earl Atlanta,GA
May 15- Bo Bo Gallery Asheville, NC
May 16- Dragon’s Den New Orleans, LA
May 17- Rubber Gloves Denton, TX
May 18- Emo’s Austin, TX
May 19- Zeppelins Underground El Paso, TX
May 20- The Hut Tucson, AZ
May 21- Brick by Brick San Diego, CA
May 22- Knitting Factory Los Angeles, CA
May 23- Hotel Utah San Francisco, CA

www.orangetulipconspiracy.com
www.myspace.com/orangetulipconspiracy

“Hello friends,

Orange Tulip Conspiracy is planning a record release tour for May 2009. Below is the list of cities and dates we are trying to confirm. If you can help in any way please contact as soon as possible. We are trying to book a lot of this ourselves so any bands that would like to play with us in the following cities please contact ASAP.

Thanks for your support!”

May 1- Seattle, WA
May 2- Portland, OR
May 4- Denver or Boulder, CO
May 5- Omaha, NE
May 6- Chicago, IL
May 7- Buffalo, NY
May 8- Boston, MA
May 9- New York City, NY
May 10- Philadelphia, PA
May 11- Washington D.C.

May 12- Asheville, NC
May 13- Mt.
Pleasant, SC
May 14- Jacksonville, FL
May 15- Atlanta, GA
May 16- New Orleans, LA or Mobile, AL
May 17- Houston, TX
May 18 Austin, TX
May 19 El Paso, TX
May 20 Tucson, AZ
May 21 San Diego, CA
May 22 Los Angeles, CA
May 23 San Francisco, CA

hit em up through  www.myspace.com/estradasphere if you can help or want to play with them

Official release:

Orange Tulip Conspiracy
hello folks,

we figured we’d tip of those of you who are on the west coast of the United States to a tour you might want to check out. It’s Orange Tulip Conspiracy, which is Jason Schimmel’s (part time SC3 bassist and full time friend) project, who also have a CD out on Mimicry Recordings. We’ll let their press release take it from here, but check this stuff out: Jason’s music is great, and the people in his band are amazing — for some reason they didn’t list the bands they are playing with, but I know some of them are excellent: for example, they’re playing with the excellent Diminished Men in Seattle and Japanoise Elephants in SF. Look up who’s on the bill in your town.
Their press release:

Orange Tulip Conspiracy is heading out on tour to promote a brand new record. Commencing in Seattle and ending in San Francisco, the tour will have 8 shows running down the west coast of the United States. OTC will feature some new and old faces associated with the Estradasphere scene. The live incarnation will feature Jason Schimmel (guitar), John Whooley (sax, keys), Dan Robbins (upright and electric bass), Zach Cline (guitar), and Lee Smith (drums). Jason has played with John and Lee in Estradasphere, and Dan Robbins is an accomplished and highly sought-after bassist in his own right from the central coast of California.

11/15/08 @Sunset Tavern 7:00P (early show) Seattle, Washington
11/16/08 @Dante’s 9:00P Portland, Oregon
11/17/08 @Samurai Duck 10:00P Eugene, Oregon
11/18/08 @On the Y 9:00P Sacramento, California
11/19/08 @Moe’s Alley 9:00P Santa Cruz, California
11/20/08 @The Ruby Room 10:00P San Diego, California
11/21/08 @The Knitting Factory 8:00P Hollywood, California
11/22/08 @Hotel Utah 9:00P San Francisco, California

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=210005

Estradasphere (trio)
2007-12-02
Lamego, Portugal
Video
Video Codec MPEG2
Bitrate 4596 kbps
framerate 25 frames/s
format PAL
Aspect 16:9
resolution 720 x 576

Audio
Codec MPEG-1 Layer 2
224 kb/s CBR
01 The Return
02 unknown
03 unknown
04 unknown Ennio Morricone
05 unknown (from Vertigo)
06 Mekapses Yitonisa
07 Bring It on Home to Me (Sam Cooke cover)
08 Butcher’s Tale (Zombies cover)
09 The Bourbon Theater (From Jason Schimmel’s solo album Orange Tulip Conspiracy)
10 Dapper Bandits
11 Smuggled Mutation
12 Hunger Strike
13 Mean old World (Sam Cooke cover)
14 Hunger Strike cont.
encore
15 unknown
16 a bit of Q and A

Timb Harris – Violin
Jason Schimmel – Guitar/vox
Tim Smolens – Bass/vox

Info:

One of the very few European performances as a trio. Kind of an “unplugged” or acoustic style show. The audio is great and I’ve never seen any trio material in either audio or video form. Filmed by Gui of the band ThanatoschizO. ThanatoschizO’s new album features Timb Harris.

photo credit: shandrew

Official Announcement:

“Hello Friends,

As many of might or might not know I have started a new band called Orange Tulip Conspiracy. I am proud to announce that we are going to be doing a west coast tour from November 14-22 in support of our debut record which has been recently released on Web of Mimicry. The tour is going to feature Jason Schimmel (guitar,keys), John Whooley (sax), Dan Robbins (bass), Zach Cline (guitar, keys) and Lee Smith (drums).

Currently this is our tour:

Friday Nov 14- Seattle, WA @ The Josephine
Saturday Nov 15- Seattle, WA @ Rendezvous
Sunday Nov 16- Portland, OR TBA
Monday Nov 17- Eugene, OR TBA
Tuesday Nov 18- Arcata or Sacramento, CA TBA
Wednesday Nov 19- Petaluma, CA TBA
Thursday Nov 20- Santa Cruz, CA @ Moe’s Alley
Friday Nov 21- Los Angeles, CA @ The Knitting Factory
Saturday Nov 22- San Francisco, CA TBA

As you can see there are a lot of cities where we are having trouble finding venues to play at (wherever it says TBA). If any of you have bands in these cities or would just like to help us book some gigs that would be a huge assistance. Please contact me here at Estradasphere’s myspace or become friends with Orange Tulip Conspiracy and contact me there (OTC is on Top 8). Also if you live around the cities I have listed we are open to playing other places as well.

This tour is going to be very exciting because this will be the first time in many years that John Whooley (original sax player of Estradasphere) and I will have the chance to perform live together. I am also proud to introduce Dan Robbins, whose name you might recognize on the Palace of Mirrors album, a long time friend and truly one of the best bay area bass players. OTC will also feature Zach Cline, an incredible guitarist from the seattle scene. This tour is a bit of a fusion between new Estradasphere members and old ones, plus some new faces. So please come and tell your friends about this.
If you need more information all of the dates will be posted on our myspace page: myspace/orangetulipconspiracy

So thank you all for your continued support and alliance. We hope to see many of you there and promise to make each evening a truly memorable experience with undisclosed surprises.

Thanks,
Jason Schimmel”

myspace/orangetulipconspiracy

Official Announcement:

“Five years in the making, Orange Tulip Conspiracy is finally here. A band that Jason Schimmel (Estradasphere, Secret Chiefs 3) formed and has been composing and producing for with the help of over a dozen amazing musicians from the L.A., Bay Area and Seattle music scenes. The album has been released through the label Web of Mimicry and is available right now. Please check out Orange Tulip Conspiracy’s self- titled debut album featuring heavily produced tracks and densely packed orchestrations. Taking the listener on a journey through an extremely eclectic musical mind Orange Tulip Conspiracy is a must have release of 2008.
So please go to webofmimicry. com for more information and to order the record. You can also pick up the record at the Secret Chiefs 3 merch booth on their current U.S. tour.”

Buy through Web of Mimicry

Official announcement:

“Hello Friends,

We are going to be playing the Rothbury Music Festival with Amanda Palmer from July 3rd-6th. We will be playing throughout the weekend doing our own show as well as a set with Amanda in The Establishment Circus Tent at the festival.

If there are any of you that could assist us with a ride (in a van or a vehicle big enough for 4 people and some guitars) from Chicago on either the evening of July 3rd or the morning of the 4th and also back to Chicago on the morning of the 6th please contact us ASAP. We also need a guitar amplifier (preferably a fender twin) a bass amp, and a four piece drum set for the festival as well.

So if any of you that would like to go the festival for free in return for
driving/providing us with gear that would be amazing. We also could pay for these things as well but our budget is limited.

So please let us know if your are interested in hanging with us for a weekend and helping us out . We will be in serious debt to your utter generosity. Contact us here at MySpace if you are interested.

Thank you all for your continued support of our mission!

See you there!

Estradasphere”

Via rapidshare:

http://darkbattm14-videos.blogspot.com/2008/04/estradasphere-live-at-moe-alley-santa.html

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”