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Cool, huh? Guess the Cobra show went well Gotta love Zorn.

Ipecac have just announced that Mike Patton‘s Mondo Cane will be playing at this years Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, a free festival help in Golden Gate park, San Francisco.

According to Ipecac, Mondo Cane are due to play October 3rd on the Star stage right. This will be the first U.S show for Mondo Cane and I’m sure a lot of our American friends are hoping for lots more dates. (I’m still pinning my hopes on the Sydney Opera House Mondo Cane show coming true that Mike mentioned to me)

More info from Ipecac and http://www.strictlybluegrass.com

• Jul 22: WROCLAV (POLAND)
• Jul 25: MILANO – Milano Jazzin’Festival (ITALY)
• Jul 26: FIRENZE (ITALY)
• Jul 29: LUCERNE (SWITZERLAND)
• Jul 31: MOSCOW (RUSSIA)
• Aug 3: TEL AVIV (ISRAEL)
• Aug 5: BRUSSELS (BELGIUM)
• Aug 8: with AIR and MASSIVE ATTACK ZIMBUJEIRA DO MAR (PORTUGAL)

So if you were managed to pre-order one of only 500 signed copies of Mike Patton‘s upcoming Mondo Cane release from Newbury comics count yourself lucky, cos they went quick.

Looks like Mike has just finished up signing them all!

“Just finished signing 500 booklets for Newbury Comics! Whew! All sold out on pre-order, thanks people!”

I think I may have ordered a spare copy, so keep an eye on stubb in the near future in case I’m giving one away…….

In the lead up to the release of the Mondo Cane album and the winding down of the Faith No More Second Coming, Mike’s self imposed media ban has been lifted slightly with a few interviews starting to pop up.

Here is a recent one from NoiseCreep where he discusses the album, the Italian shows where the material was recorded, Italy, Faith No More and Meshuggah. Check it out

Next we have a Mondo Cane album review from Culture Bully.

And finally we have some Mondo Cane tour dates starting to appear:

• 22 July – Era Nowe Horyzonty Festival, Wroclaw Poland (Officially unconfirmed. via Pattonfans on twitter and Mondo Cane FB Page)
• 29 July – Blue Balls Festival – Luzern, Switzerland
• August 8 – Sudoeste Festival, Portugal
• As yet unconfirmed Russian Date (via the Mondo Cane FB page)

In anticipation of the Mondo Cane album release, why not get acquainted with the songs that started it all? Thanks to Patton Archivo, you can do just that. Download the original versions here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?t0jtmhmqwty
http://www.mediafire.com/?ydmdzytynty

Thanks to my buddy Mike at Atomic Basement (KOWH Comic book! Duh!), we have some semi official confirmation that the Amsterdam Mondo Cane concert originally streamed on the FabChannel website (RIP) in 2008, will be released sometime in the (near?) future.

According to the solicitation promo material made available recently for the Mondo Cane album, there will be “an upcoming DVD which will feature a live performance of Mondo Cane in Amsterdam”.

This is great news! Hopefully it will feature the entire concert, and not just a smattering of songs from the show like the soon to be released Mondo Cane album.

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An excellent brand spanking new interview with Mike Patton on the Mondo Cane project has just been released over at Artist Direct. Some nice new pieces of info in it including:

The Mondo Cane album:

“Basically the Mondo Cane recordings were culled from our first three shows. They were all in Italy. Some very appreciated producers, editors and I chose different parts. Maybe for the record, we’d use one bar from the violins from concert one, and in the same piece of music, maybe we’d use the females in the choir from somewhere else. It was like a giant Rubiks Cube to find the best takes from three concerts out of all these different elements. Obviously, there was some studio trickery [Laughs]. It was fun.”

The Faith No More tour:

“To be honest, I never thought that I would ever revisit that stuff again. After some reflection and speaking with the guys, I realized, Well, wait a minute. I’m not embarrassed about it [Laughs]. It’s still good music! Is there a way that we can still pull it off and do it justice? So we rehearsed! When we rehearsed, I realized this is good and I feel great about it. After that, we decided to do some shows.”

Check out the whole interview here

The Mondo Cane facebook page has also posted a new album with loads of Mondo Cane live photos. Check it out here

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.)

laweekly.com has managed to get ahold of the new Mondo Cane release and have put together a nice little review. Check it out

After two years of patiently waiting for the Mondo Cane album to drop, it finally looks like it is about to become reality. We have a tracklist, and a date! The live album is due to hit on May 4th via Ipecac Recordings.

01. Il Cielo In Una Stanza
02. Che Notte!
03. Ore D’Amore
04. Deep Down
05. Quello Che Conta
06. Urlo Negro
07. Scalinatella
08. L’Uomo Che Non Sapeva Amare
09. 20 KM Al Giorno
10. Ti Offro Da Bere
11. Senza Fine

Thanks to @IpecacRec on twitter we have some exciting news. Not only do we have confirmation that Mondo Cane is landing first week of May, but we also get a release date for the new recently completed Melvins album and also news of a new Isis record! It’s shaping up to be a good year.

“Oh my! Mondo Cane(Patton) record out first week of May, new Melvins record first week of June and more Isis soon too!!!!”