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15 tracks | 52 minutes
Released Dec 2006
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:58 A town revealed lyrics BUY MP3 03:58 A town revealed lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:58 A town revealed
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:09 Red stats lyrics BUY MP3 03:09 Red stats lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:09 Red stats
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:49 Little flowers lyrics BUY MP3 03:49 Little flowers lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:49 Little flowers
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:54 Those who have gone lyrics BUY MP3 05:54 Those who have gone lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:54 Those who have gone
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:28 All eyes on you lyrics BUY MP3 03:28 All eyes on you lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:28 All eyes on you
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:17 Driving lyrics BUY MP3 03:17 Driving lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:17 Driving
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:14 Belly full of fire lyrics BUY MP3 03:14 Belly full of fire lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:14 Belly full of fire
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:15 Open twinkle lyrics BUY MP3 04:15 Open twinkle lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:15 Open twinkle
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:01 Telecity lyrics BUY MP3 02:01 Telecity lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:01 Telecity
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:43 White noise lyrics BUY MP3 03:43 White noise lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:43 White noise
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:19 Map of the heart lyrics BUY MP3 02:19 Map of the heart lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:19 Map of the heart
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:59 Umbrella dance lyrics BUY MP3 02:59 Umbrella dance lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:59 Umbrella dance
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:46 Home movies lyrics FREE 02:46 Home movies lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:46 Home movies
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:12 Urban machine lyrics BUY MP3 04:12 Urban machine lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:12 Urban machine
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:19 Right here lyrics BUY MP3 03:19 Right here lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:19 Right here
The Flaming Lips meet the Cocteau Twins. Squonk Opera takes you on “a breathless journey through an ever-changing emotional landscape, from horror to humor to ravishing beauty.” (NY Daily News)
Bio / Background
Call her Jackie.
In 1992, a young Pittsburgh pianist walked away from the academic wasteland of classical music to make a band unlike any other band. Squonk Opera’s music has since been called "hypnotic" by The New York Times, "gloriously eccentric" by Time Out New York and "Debussy meets Godzilla" by The Washington Post. She met a feckless artist, moderately known for his designs and esoteric wind instruments, and well known for his lack of self-control. He was christened Stephen, but went simply by “the captain.”
Others joined the fray – Kevin on a wild assortment of drums and percussion, stalwart Nathan on fretless and upright bass, Christina and her glorious vocals and David on screaming guitars - until six hearts powered the fingers and lungs that beat as one, on this latest release “You Are Here.”
Squonk Opera quickly earned their appellation “rust-belt dada.
↓ more ↓” They competed with, and absorbed the power, of the beer-fed bar bands, Byzantine ritual, and insane Steeler fandom that drove the engines of their hometown.
Squonk’s first show was in a junkyard: Jackie used choreographed cranes and the roar of car-crushing metal shears as part of Squonk’s score. They hired actors, posing as radical vegans, to protest against their own premiere of “Night of the Living Dead: The Opera” with its flesh-eating zombies. They had a hit show at PS 122 for 3 hot summer months in 1999, and then a brief, painful stint in the commercial Hell of Broadway. The band survived on squid for breakfast in Korea, and Ham und Kaas, for every meal, in Flanders. Jackie and Steve have received three awards from the N.E.A. and cruel recriminations from the Manhattan art mafiosi.
Manifestos were issued, enemies made, bridges burned. Jackie thumbed her nose at a $70,000 advance from Sony, to retain her own label. As the multi-media spectacle of their shows grew, Jackie’s partner, “the captain,” accused Laurie Anderson and the Flaming Lips of intellectual property crimes, and Sigur Ros of copyright infringement.
Still, they continue.
The instrumentation of a Balkan cabaret band with access to an abandoned Radio Shack.
The sinewy energy of a tom-driven rock band, and the lyricism of Lewis Carroll.
The humor and chutzpah of a provincial circus, and the authenticity of, well, a provincial circus.
All of this for $12.97.
Papers have scampered to try to describe this intoxicating sound. The Chicago Reader found “traces of Laurie Anderson, Kurt Weill, Debussy, Ravi Shankar and medieval Chant,” while The Baltimore Sun saw a “whimsical mix of Philip Glass, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wagner and rock.”
Squonk Opera takes you on “a breathless journey through an ever-changing emotional landscape, from horror to humor to ravishing beauty.” (NY Daily News)
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