NEPTUNE (usa) Boston art punk...with home-made instruments!!

[Dizzy Storm]

**coming in november**

NEPTUNE is aband from Boston, Massachusetts that initially began as a sculpture project. Neptune played their first show in a basement in Dec 1994. currently the band consists of 3 manly men playing home-made instruments, made using bike parts, saws, old metal chairs, home-made oscillators, amplified springs and other stuff found in the trash. jason sculpts most of the instruments out of scrap metal. mark has taken an interest in electronics culminating in the invention of a handsome yet tuneful man-box. dan has mastered the fine art of debt and breaking stuff

With several different members and collaborators over the years, the music has evolved with the instruments blending the traditional sounds of Rock & Roll with what sounds like mistake day at the ball bearing factory. The current three-piece lineup relies as heavily on home-made electronics as it does it's signature scrap metal instruments. With less guys and more gear, Neptune rocks like The Fall, clangs like Neubauten and drones like Faust with improvised and not-so-improvised songs that you can dance to

Jason Sanford - baritone guitar, oscillator organ, electric thumb piano, bass, small electric spring, vocals
Mark Pearson - baritone guitar, 4 string slide, bass, oscillators, large electric spring, percussion, vocals
Daniel Boucher - drums, electric floor tom, telegraph noise box, bass dulcimer, contact mics, vocals

bands they've played with over the years
The Ex (4x), Liars (2x), Oneida (5x), Lightning Bolt (7x), Electrelane (2x), Flaming Lips Boombox Experiment, Zu (2x), Sixteens (2x), The Evens, USAISAMONSTER (5x), Blonde Redhead, Numbers, Gang Gang Dance, Enon, Dave Philips (2x), Erase Errata, Crack We Are Rock, Melt Banana, Uz Jsme Doma, Arab on Radar (5x), Wolf Eyes, 25 Suaves, The Phantom Limbs (6x), The Fleshies (2x), Stinking Lizaveta, Party of Helicopters, The Centimeters (5x), Gogogo Airheart, The Apes, Noxagt, Tunnel of Love (+8x), Sightings (2x), Six Finger Satellite, Roger Miller, James Chance & the Contortions, Can't/Jessica Rylan (+6), Parts and Labor (6x), Fat Day, Nautical Almanac, Silent Block, Daughters, Crank Sturgeon (4x), Ex-Models, XBXRX...

go here for more details/mp3's/pics http://www.misterrecords.com/neptune

more details to be announced soon.....

sounds kewl, a little like thomas truax..?

[Dizzy Storm]

similar ethos with instruments.

but musically? nope

just as entertaining though

[jimr]

That played with list is ridiculous.

just downloaded a few songs from their site, defo not truax musically, but creativity is the same. ill definatley have to see this!!!!!!

[PVH]

I dont think i can go....purely because jealously will take over my small mind, and i will have to smash their faces in because they have played with LB 7 times and i have been unable to even see them.....dick heads.....

[ragudave]

sounds like they have a similar ethos to Doorag - http://www.paceagency.de/acts/doorag/doorag.html

[Dizzy Storm]

NEPTUNE will be appearing at The Tunnels on SAT 26TH NOV along with PRO FORMA, DEDALUS & (i think) COPY HAHO

im sure i'll be corrected if wrong!

[Twojoe]

Originally Posted by Arkade Projects

NEPTUNE will be appearing at The Tunnels on SAT 26TH NOV along with PRO FORMA, DEDALUS & (i think) COPY HAHO

im sure i'll be corrected if wrong!

And you'll all be missing staccato set! hahahahaha

Warning Metaphor ahead!

It's getting a little like a single cell organism full of great ideas dividing and multiplying into many single cell organisms full of great ideas that then spread and evolve!

Love Jim

[Dizzy Storm]

Originally Posted by Twobackjoe

And you'll all be missing staccato set!

thats the point!!! hehe!

its a conspiracy jim....duh!!