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A whole stack of interesting stuff going on over there at Yoshi’s San Fran, including what appears to be three parts Bungle appearing on stage for the first time in almost a decade… Reconciliation? Reunion? Thank you Zorn!

“Native New Yorker and enfant terrible John Zorn has had very deep ties with San Francisco since his first visit here in 1974. His yearly visits have deepened his connection with local musicians and venues and many of his closest collaborators still live right here in the Bay Area.

This special three night series showcases him performing with many of San Francisco’s best musicians in improvisational units, and includes the world premiere performance of his popular tribute to the Bay area ALHAMBRA LOVE SONGS, his first ever duo concert with California’s Guru extraordinaire Terry Riley and of course his legendary game piece COBRA, featuring an all-star Bay Area lineup.”

Cobra is

fred frith guitar

trey spruance guitar

scott amendola drums

kenny wollesen drums

william winant perc

rob burger piano

dave slusser keys

mike patton vox, electronics

chris brown  electronics

david rosenboom electronics

timb harris violin

joan jeanrenaud cello

mark dresser   bass

trevor dunn  bass

john zorn prompter

photo credit: fixwhatusee

On June 19 Mike Patton returned to the  Holland Festival to perform Luciano Berio’s Laborintus II. Thanks to the MP Chile community we now have download links to a DVD version of the show:

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 (megaupload)

Photo c/o smogra

I haven’t come across this before in my travels, apologies if it is old news. You can download a ‘DVD’ of the 2007 Mike Patton and Christian Fennesz show in Switzerland. Patton Archivo has all the info and download links.

In a recent interview over at Consequence of Sound, Kid Koala has confirmed that the next Lovage album, the follow up to 2001′s Music to Make Love to your old Lady by, has been recorded and is only waiting on Jennifer (Charles) and Mike Patton to finish it off:

“The Lovage music is done for the most part but we’re just waiting for Mike and Jennifer to get together and write again. But I had so much fun on that tour. I hope they finish it soon (laughs).  Dan the Automator is part of it as well, of course. But I haven’t heard any new Peeping Tom stuff yet.”

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Triple J, an Australian ‘alt’ radio station this morning aired a recent interview with Mike Patton from his San Fran home.

Interesting points that came from the interview include:

• He is about to complete a film score for an italian movie called “The Solitude of Prime Numbers”
• The Nevermen project with doseone and TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe should be due at the end of the year. He describes the project as a ‘vocal trio’
• He has a new Fantomas album bubbling away in the back of his mind
• Duane Denison is hard at work writing music for the new Tomahawk album

Download the interview here

Yet another excellent Mike Patton article has recently been released to the world. Now it’s the quietus’ turn:

“In a sense, baiting and teasing that audience became a part of his project, even a motivating factor. ‘I’ve certainly done things like that in the past,’ he says, ‘in some of the earlier bands – and it wasn’t just me! We would make musical choices like, oh yeah, this’ll really fuck ‘em up!’”

Check it

Hat-tip to JimT for the heads up.

There have been a couple of new Mike Patton interviews appearing here and there recently with lots of juicy new info, specifically on the future of Fantomas, Tomahawk and Faith No More. Check em out:

Metal Sucks

On Fantomas:

“I just need to write a new record for these guys. They’re just sitting around waiting for me. That’s the status. Very simple. I’ve just gotta, you know, do it. That’s (Fantomas) an important one to me. It’s close to my heart. I don’t wanna take it for granted.”

On Faith No More

“It just happened. I think it was a reconciliation of sorts. We’ve been offered to reform many, many times over the last ten years. At some point, we all realized, ‘Hey, what’s the problem here? Should we do this? Will the music stand up?’  That was a big question. So, we rehearsed to kinda figure out whether it would stand up or not. And it did. And here we are.”

On future Zorn Collaborations:

“Zorn’s written another Moonchild record that I gotta go out to New York and sing on it. In fact, I should be doing it right now.”

On Tomahawk:

“Yeah, yeah. But it’s not my project so… It’s Duane [Denison]’s project. He’s written a bunch of new tunes and he actually just sent me a CD the other day. It’s, like, acoustic guitar and metronome… We’re a long ways off, but yeah, I think there will be more music. Why not?”

The Skinny

On Mondo Cane:

“I knew I would interpret these pieces aggressively – but I didn’t want to murder them, because there has to be an element of respect there and to really just commit some kind of a crime in the name of nostalgia would not be cool… I wouldn’t sleep so well.”

On the future of Faith No More:

“I would venture a guess that this is going to be it, but hey – this is what our focus is now – once this is all over, maybe we’ll sit around, have a laugh and talk about the future. But right now I think it’s way too early to say.”

On future projects:

“I’m working on another score, for an Italian film which should be out later in the year. Mondo Cane is doing a tour in Europe in July, believe it or not, it’s a hell of a time to put it together but we’re going to be over there for around a month.”

Hat tip to Patton Archivo

Just in time to pimp that new Mondo Cane album, Ipecac have released the latest Mike Patton promo photos:

(Click for full size 10MB+ images at ipecac.)

Does this explain it?