Richard *de fabriek* van Dellen sent me a Dutch publication from his hometown Zwolle which used the term bodycocktail as one word and I knew that had to be the name of my next band. I divined the anthropomorphic martini logo on a cocktail napkin!

Once in a blue moon while on tour in Europe.

a boon from the heavens for the home recording artist

I've not been holding my breath for 21 years, lets just say.

I started Bodycocktail as my solo spin-off of Grandbrother. I had gotten into doing vocals and occasional lyrics with Grandbrother and after I bought my first electronic instrument, an Ensoniq Mirage sampling keyboard, I was inspired to start doing songs. This would be in 1993, but my earliest songs appear on the 1984 Zanstones "Subtle Art of Puddle Pushing" release. I had been writing potential lyrics long before this, some of which I used later in Bodycocktail.

I started the band with some help of my friend Bobby Douglas (drums) and Archie "Chillson" Wilson (guitar) and we even played out live perhaps half a dozen times in 1993 and 1994. Soon it became a solo project and I even did a few solo live shows. The Bodycocktail releases "Enlivened Circumstances" & "Solo Live Blisstones at Sparks" document some of these live actions.

Peak studio years, with over 20 releases, include 1996, 2004 and this year.

1977-1983 new wave

barcelona - chicago - brussels

Children and toy keyboards, Ensoniq Mirage, accordians, stringed instruments, wind instruments and non-instruments.

the music's intention is to have the effect of a nice cocktail rolling over your mind. The song titles have numbers which reference the release number first, followed by a dot then the track number.