Aclepa
02-28-2006, 11:33 PM
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The band's music takes cues from canonical Japanese noise rock bands like Boredoms and Ruins, although jazz composer Sun Ra is a well-acknowledged influence. The band's heavily distorted sound consists of Brian Chippendale's unusual approach of eschewing a microphone stand and instead holding the microphone in his mouth, running the signal through an effects processor to further alter the sound, with Brian Gibson's oddly strung bass guitar (tuned C,G,D,A with a banjo string for the high A) going through several pedals, including two overdrive pedals, an octaver and a bass whammy pedal (pitch shifter). They have also been heard using a sine wave generator, triggered by the bass drum.
The band's music takes cues from canonical Japanese noise rock bands like Boredoms and Ruins, although jazz composer Sun Ra is a well-acknowledged influence. The band's heavily distorted sound consists of Brian Chippendale's unusual approach of eschewing a microphone stand and instead holding the microphone in his mouth, running the signal through an effects processor to further alter the sound, with Brian Gibson's oddly strung bass guitar (tuned C,G,D,A with a banjo string for the high A) going through several pedals, including two overdrive pedals, an octaver and a bass whammy pedal (pitch shifter). They have also been heard using a sine wave generator, triggered by the bass drum.