Fantomas, Mondo Cane, Crudo and Peeping Tom Deux
To celebrate the 10th birthday of Ipecac Recordings, the man formally known as gerg, Greg Werkman, was interviewed in the latest issue of rock-a-rolla (a quality magazine).
On the new Fantomas:
“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!
