trio of philly acid jazzers turned quintet, then sextet, of the massive sonic nature. the group offers a boom of sound packed with odd meters, psyched out tones and beautifully spooky melodies.
NAME
Grimace Federation
INFLUENCES
polish jazz-rock, david axelrod, gong, neu, can, isotope 217, fela kuti, king crimson, magma, pfm, weldon irvine, hall and oates, stereolab, bill frissel, johnny cash, tortoise, pat metheny, bjork, outkast, fourtet, john coltrane, amon tobin, aphex twin, dylan group, mice parade, broken social scene, talking heads, madlib, kraftwerk, king tubby, queens of the stone age, the beach boys, sam prekop, the beatles, jeff parker, burt bacharach, pinback, zombi, stravinsky, yesterday's new quintet, euphone, silver apples, jaga jazzist, kim hiorthoy, roger roger, luke vibert, lars and martin horntveth, sven libaek, freddy hubbard, five style, need new body, explosions in the sky, tristeza, the flaming lips, michael mcdonald, do/make/say/think, greg and duane allman, aesop rock, dosh, kraan, laboratorium, minotaur shock, tony allen, sonny shorock, pharoah sanders, buffalo springfield, bad plus, moroder, jeff beck, beck, wayne krantz/keith carlock, donald byrd, cymande, john carpenter, ennio moricone, cluster, idris muhammed, gil evans, magma, egg, bad brains, tool, bob james, afro rican, bo hannson, trans am, gong, marc ribot....black sabbath
CONTACT
bookgrimace@gmail.com
www.myspace.com/grimacefederation