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Thinguma*jigSaw

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General Info

  • Genre: Alternative / Folk

    Location Ireland, NO

    Profile Views: 106411

    Last Login: 4/11/2012

    Member Since 1/4/2007

    Website thingumajigsaw.com

    Record Label Deserted Village (IR)/ Diger (NO)

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    ........ .. Order from Deserted Village Records. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. or buy from .. .. .. .. .. .. ..(awakeinwhitechapel).... 1. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 2 - serpentsapple .. 2. who's laughing now?.. 3. burden of genius (for p. condon).. 4. walking the cow (d. johnston).. 5. my blood giggles.. 6. a solid severance.. 7. can I walk you home?.. 8. jumping jock flesh.. 9. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 3 -rest.. 10. thinguma*qatsi.. 11. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 4 - waltzofdeath.. 12. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 1 - redlightcockfight.. 13. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 5 - lullabyforleviathan.... This album has been described as not only a masterpiece, but "a masterpiece and a half". It is produced by the eminent Nicky Coghlan, and it features twelve original compositions, one cover of Daniel Johnston's "walking the cow", and liner-notes by the legendary Mike "Sport" Murphy. Original artwork by Little Myth Epiphanymph. .. .. The liner notes for (awakeinwhitechapel) - by Sport Murphy: .. .. .. .. ___________________________________________________________ .. .. ..Some reviews of the album (awakeinwhitechapel):.. .. .. "Beg, borrow, or steal if you have to, but just make sure to get your hands on this amazing album. 10/10", .. .. Thinguma*jigSaw "awakeinwhitechapel".. .. - Foxy Digitalis .. .. "I have to say this is one of the most original and thoroughly enjoyable folk albums I’ve heard over the last year or so, it mangers to be tuneful, macabre, playful and inventive through-out...Certainly one of the albums of the year,that I can see myself playing in years to come.", ..Thinguma*jigsaw - awakeinwhitechapel [Deserted Village - 2008].. - MusiqueMachine .... "Med tekster om lik, syfilis og gammeltestamentiske bilder byr de opp til nattadans med et skjelmsk flir og fordrukkent blikk", .... Utvandret splatterfolk: Thinguma*jigSaw - (awakeinwhitechapel).. ..- ballade.no .... "(awakeinwhitechapel) is one of my favourite irish albums of all time...it cannot help but jolt the first-time listener out of their cynical distanse... a pair of psycho Norwegians obsessed with death",.. ..Album Swap.... - Analogue magazine, Ireland .. .. "the record appears to have been made by mad children...It's a world where David Tibet and Tim Renner meet Dock Boggs in a damp cobbled lane under gaslight to drink absinthe and await the end of days." ..2007 in Review (part 1).. .. - Dwacres .. .. "Weird war gestern. Heute ist Splatter", .... Thinguma*jigSaw - (awakeinwhitechapel).. ..- Nonpop.de .... "Onwaarschijnlijk duo, onwaarschijnlijk interessant", .. ..Thinguma*jigSaw | (awakeinwhitechapel).. .. - KindaMuzik .. .. "De donkere sinistere ondertoon van ‘Awakeinwhitechapel' heeft alles van doen met het onderwerp dat centraal staat: Jack The Ripper en de Whitechapel murders ", ....Mysterieuze folk via Clear Spot.. .. - Folkforum .. .. ..Some articles on Thinguma*jigSaw:.. .. .. "Their music is deeply unsettling yet strangely comforting, instrumentally spare but musically rich",.. .. NOR-WEIRD-IAN TUNES ARE THE 'THING'".. ..- New York Post .. .."Musikken er myk og sparsommelig, tekstene fulle av død og fordervelse.", ....There will be blood.. .. - Aftenposten, Oslopuls .. .. "Den norske duoen Thinguma*jigSaw skal denne uken til Nederland for å spille prestisjetunge konserter" ....Thinguma*jigSaw til Europa.".. ..- Groove.no .. .. "they have quickly become darlings of the underground scene" .... Whatchamaycallitsaw.. ..- Hifipopcorn .. .. ..Interviews with Thinguma*jigSaw:.. .. .. "Their debut awakeinwhitechapel is one of the freshest, strange yet memorable takes on folk music your likely to have every heard mixing together banjo, musically saw and flute." .. ..Folk Murder & Mayhem.. ..- MusiqueMachine .. .. "Does that make any sense? Well -does it have to? And is anything purely funny or vicious?", ....Interview with Thinguma*jigSaw.. .. - Ratatosk Online .. .. ..Live-reviews of Thinguma*jigSaw:.. .. .. "Dette er som å være med i en David Lynch-film", ....Fascinerende splatterfolk.. .. - puls.no .. .. "...you can stretch out just one foot away from Scandinavian duo Thinguma*JigSaw whilst they give a mesmerising, unamplified performance on the saw, banjo and breath-powered keyboard", ....End of the Road Festival - best fest of 2008?.. ..- Time Out, London .. .. "Het was een memorabele verbeelding van post-erotiek", .. .. Motel Mozaïque dwingt tot keuzes.., .. - NRC Handelsblad.. .. "Alle som så Thinguma*jigSaw på Torgerstuen på Tøyen i midten av mai kan skrive under på at duoen driver med ting få om noen andre i landet er i nærheten av å matche, gjennom hva de selv har døpt splatter-folk." ....Torgerstuen.... - Plan B .. .. "Maar het meest intieme moment van het festival werd bereikt toen het duo met banjo en dwarsfluit midden in het publiek gingen staan", ....Motel Mozaique: de eerste recensies.. .. - Eclectro.nl .. .. "Het leek zo lieflijk, maar dan ineens tovert zanger Seth een vrij verontrustende grijns tevoorschijn", ....Thinguma*jigSaw is verontrustend en lieflijk tegelijk.., ..- 3voor12, VPRO .. .. ..Some live video's of Thinguma*jigSaw: .. .. .. .. "Live at Paradiso, Amsterdam".. ..- Fabchannel.com .. .. ..Live session at "Behind Closed Doors", Rotterdam.... - 3voor12, VPRO .. .. ..Links to other Thinguma*jigSaw webpages:.. .. .. ..Thinguma*jigSaw on last.fm.. .. .. .. Thinguma*jigSaw facebook group.. .. .. ..Thinguma*jigsaw on the radio:.. .. .. "inspired by old murder ballads, horror movies, musical minimalism, beautiful acoustic sounds...", .... Spinning on Air, WNYC, New York.. .. .. "Excentrieke psychfolk van Noors duo" .... Dwars, VPRO, Amsterdam.. .. .. "With their invented style, they combine elements of folk and avante garde music with horror movie sensibilities.".. ..Hello Goodbye Show.. .. - resonancefm.com .. .. ___________________________________________________________ .. .... ....This irresistible, revolutionary folk-duo will tickle your brain and nourish your heart;.... ..Two elusive, exeptional, pivotal personalities - cunningly spinning a web of flamboyant brouhahas within the idiom of their own device: charming, clever, generous, sinister ..splatterfolk... .. ..Splatterfolk combines elements of traditional Irish/British/American folk with contemporary art music, and spices it up with lyrical and musical components usually associated with horrorfilms, experimental theatre and modernistic poetry. There is also an abundance of filmatic and popcultural references. It's the new revolution within the folk music - scene of today, and you will find no finer exponents of this subversive art than Thinguma*jigSaw. Sensual and subversive - that..s us! .. .. Join our mailinglist! Send subject: "subscription" to thingumajigsaw@hotmail.com.. .. ..

  • Members

    ...... ....The Severed Headmaster.. (Seth Horatio Buncombe): revolutionary poet, composer and performer, dealing mainly with vocals and Banjo. Buncombe is a poetic provocateur and a postmodern peasant... ...... .. ....Little Myth Epiphanymph.. (Martha Redivivus): mysterious multi-disciplinary artist, dealing with flute, the musical saw and various instruments. Redivivus is the duo's illustrator and a kaleidoscopic conceptualist...

  • Influences

    ..That’s for us to know, and you to find out... But if you sorely need your namedropping, here’s a few names for you: .. "Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf" (Albee/Nichols ), Daniel Johnston, Mike Sport Murphy, Philip Glass, John Jacob Niles, "Meshes of the Afternoon" (Deren), Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce ("Finnegans Wake" & "Ulysses"),Gyorgi Ligeti, Lars Von Trier, Scott Walker, e.e. Cummings, Peter Delaney,Arne Nordheim, Frida Kahlo, The Quay Brothers, Edward Gorey, Deerhoof, Thure Erik Lund,Microphones/Mount Eerie, Lindsay Anderson,Spike Jones, Patrick McCabe, Tom Lehrer, 16 Horsepower/Woven Hand, Kronos Quartet, Flann O’ Brien,Al Duvall, Maja Ratkje, Tiger Lillies, Gustav Mahler, "Un chien andalou" (Bunuel/Dali), Black Sabbath,Lewis Carroll, June Tabor, Lisa Dillan, Michael Mantler, "Koyaanisqatsi"(Reggio/Fricke), "Equus" (Shaeffer/Lumet), Tom Waits, "The Tenant" (Polanski), "Julien Donkey Boy" & "Gummo" (Korine),Alice Cooper,Dario Argento,Ed Wood,The Spook Of The Thirteenth Lock, George Worrall, Robbie Basho,Roy Smeck, David Lynch, Dylan Thomas, "The Unnameable" (Samuel Beckett).

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