Browse by Artist: HAMSTER THEATRE

Artist:	HAMSTER THEATRE
Title:	Carnival Detournement
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 146CD

2001 release, repressed. "The band's music is a theatre of the absurd, a musical realm where reggae rhythms collide with Rock In Opposition style trickery, and where beautiful melodies are painstakingly constructed -- and then just as carefully destructed. There are echoes here of a wide geographic, social, and chronological range of music: carnival and theatre music, European avant/progressive composers and bands, 20th century French composers ranging from Satie and Ravel to Albert Marcoeur and Lars Hollmer, folk music forms from across the continent and sidewalk cafe musings from Eastern Europe."

Artist:	HAMSTER THEATRE
Title:	The Public Execution of Mister Personality/Quasi Day Room
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 226/7CD

"Hamster Theatre are co-led by multi-instrumentalists Dave Willey and Jon Stubbs, with reed player Mark Harris, guitarist Mike Johnson, drummer Raoul Rossiter, bassist Brian McDougall and a number of other guests. This set includes their new studio album as well as a second disc of a live performance from 2002. Hamster Theatre straddle the edges of folk music; avant-garde; 'world' music; early 20th-century French composers, such as Erik Satie and Maurice Ravel; contemporary composition and many other musical forms, bringing together elements of all of these styles, while never sounding 'just like' any one of them. Their songs are always filled with delightful melodies and surprising orchestrations."

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