Les Claypool

Add Date: March 17

Artist: Les Claypool

Album: Of Fungi and Foe

Label: Prawn Song

Genre: Rock

Comments:
Les Claypool describes his inspiration:
"Sometime back I was commissioned to write soundtrack music for two projects that promised to have wuite a bit of very intense and unique imagery. One was for an interactive game about a meteor that hits Earth and brings intelligence to the mushrooms within the crash proximity and the other was about a 3000 lb wild boar that terrorizes the marijuana fields of Northern California. ... This music became the foundation of the songs that fill this collection... with a few added tidbits and a bit of gypsy sauce..."

With a premise like that the weird, sort-of bluesy, sort of apocolyptic, sort of carnival music on this album comes as no surprise. Strange low notes gurgle out over what sounds like someone playing a xylephone made of bones and a chorus of fat Jabba the Huts singing. Once you get past the initial shock, songs like "Bite Out of Life" and "Kazoo" are strangely likeable.

Also, how much do the things on the cover look like potential house-elves?

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