It’s the party end of the year (well it was when I started this post) and it’s time for the first ever inaugural Stubbadub top 10 albums of the year list!
Even without any significant contributions from Mike Patton this year, which can be directly attributed to a certain reunion tour, there have been many great Stubbadub related releases to tickle our ear drums.
So lets get started. Counting down from 10 to 1:
10. Zu – Carboniferous (Mike Patton) - Italian metallers Zu released their latest album Carboniferous via Mike Patton‘s label Ipecac Recordings. Mike appears on a couple of tracks (Soulympics and Orc) along with Buzz from the Melvins (Chthonian).
09. Shrinebuilder – Self Titled (Dale Crover) - Featuring Dale Crover of The Melvins fame on drums and Neurosis frontman Scott Kelly on Guitar, Shrinebuilder released their stoner fueled debut album in October.
07. Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine – The Audacity of Hype (Billy Gould) – The latest installment from outspoken ex-Dead Kennedys’ vocalist, Eric Reed Boucher aka Jello Biafra is a kick in the sack from start to finish. The album features Billy Gould on bass and one has to assume that he would have toured with the band if he hadn’t been side tracked by the recent reformation of Faith No More. Hopefully he can make the next tour (and they bring it to Australia )
06. Chuck Mosley and the VUA – Will Rap over Hard Rock for Food (Chuck Mosley) – It’s been a while since Chuck released anything of significance, but it was worth the wait. A good album over all and the rework of Faith No More‘s We Care a Lot (Featuring special guest Mr Roddy Bottum on keys) is very interesting and worth grabbing the album for alone.
05. Umlaut – Self Titled (Bar McKinnon) – Bar’s first release since becoming an Aussie. Recently toured with Les Claypool. A very tidy album all round with some very nice Bungle-esque/Secret Chiefs 3 moments.
04. Isis – Wavering Radiant (Ipecac Recordings) – The latest installment from rockers Isis as usual does not disappoint.
03. Secret Chiefs 3 – Traditionalists : Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini (Trey Spruance) – The newest SC3 album took everyone by surprise as Trey bucked his usual trend of announcing an album release and then missing that date by large margins. A great release by sub band “Traditionalists”, but leaves you hanging for the next book release.
02. The Fantastic Terrific Munkle – Music to Dance To (Danny Heifetz) – It is very difficult to keep up with what Danny is working on nowdays as he does not have any established online presence, but the best thing he is involved with at the moment is the Munkle band. Check this album out
01. John Zorn – O’o (Trevor Dunn) – The latest in Zorn’s “Romance” series and the follow up to 2008′s “The Dreamers”, this is an amazing record and by far my album of the year.
Hopefully next year we will see the highly anticipated release of Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane, possibly Crudo and fingers crossed another Fantomas would be most welcome.
“Mike’s not even really begun on that. He has ideas but it’s not even close.”
On Crudo and Peeping Tom:
“There will also be a new Peeping Tom record, not this year though… Then him and Dan the Automator started working on a band called Crudo. The thing about Mike is that he always has five or six records at various stages, all at the same time and it’s hard to tell which one’s gonna get done first. And then other things happen in his life and everything is put on hold. He just did the score for Crank: High Voltage. That took up four or five months of his life this last year, and when things like that happen everything else stops until he finishes those projects.”
On the much anticipated italian pop covers album Mondo Cane:
“We got Mike’s big project that he’s been working on for a while, a little over a year, called Mondo Cane. He sings italian pop songs with a full orchestra. He taped a couple of the shows he did over there last year and then he’s been in the studio working on the tracks and adding some strings. It’s taking longer now with the FNM stuff going on, it’s gonna delay it a little. I hope that record comes out in November of this year, but maybe not.”
Hat tip and thanks to mindbait for the heads up and transcribing the interview snippets!
Crudo video for “let’s Go” video features Jackie Chan and Daniel Wu and is featured in the banned in China movie “the shinjuku Incident” Check it out and see some of the action you can’t see in China.
Crudo is Mike Patton and Dan the Automator’s latest collaboration due out sometime this year
So it looks like Crudo have debuted the track “Let’s Go” on their myspace page. On first listen I thought it sounded eerily similar to his General Patton work.
According to patton archivo this song was played live by Peeping Tom last year a couple of times. He has links to a couple of youtube videos of the song being played by Peeping Tom as well.
Their myspace also has a few new Crudo promo pics:
“Wanna hear a secret? The new band, Crudo, is playing a top secret warm up show in San Francisco at Great American Music Hall on Thursday May 22nd and tix just went on sale. This will be the first ever appearance of the Mike Patton/Dan the Automator project. It is the warm up show for their appearance at the Sasquatch festival at the Gorge in Washington on May 24th. No word on where or when the record will be released but should be fun live. Be the first to witness Crudo!!!!!”
Pretty brief and underwhelming interview, and those characters are kind of annoying…..
Major points:
info on how the ipecac toys came about
crudo, the new automator collab got a mention
talked about a show in a mental hosptial with an improv jazz group
the age old FNM question was asked yet again. if the money was “insane” a Faith no More reunion may happen, but he doesnt see any musical reason for it
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