Shemduhpenman
Electronic, organic to industrial, dubby at times, traditional at times (blues, funk, rock, middle eastern, jazz even...), generally try to hit the dance nerve
2
top 50
45
songs
1.2K
plays
Duh Sub Blurbs Duh Sub Blurbs
Barack Obama Barack Obama
Smashandakini Smashandakini
OnEndingOminohLove Part 2 OnEndingOminohLove Part 2
Show all (45)
Music must introduce news of an alternative mode as it unfolds around us in us between us and beyond us. Shemduhpenman is an open ended multi-personaed organization of humans and their technologies acting as portals/agents/catalysts through which the news of music's life passes, regardless of genre and commercial considerations. Am I being too serious?
Also, we are not real musicians, we don't play particularly well, have not studied formally, but go on nerve, devotion, our ears
Feel free to send us your questions...music should also be a conversation and should listen to conversations and learn so....Band/artist history
Shem: Programming and sequencing
Eric: Texts, vocals, vague ideas
Others: Everyone we have listened to and will listen to with attention and open-ness.
You: How you hear it makes it what it is in the end...Have you performed in front of an audience?No we are not particularly welcome to do so where we are, we are exiles/foreigners who face the usual closed doors and we are making music that is unfamiliar to the people here. Unfortunately, to play here would be asking for more trouble than its worth, musicians are seen as low life in this society when they are playing music that people enjoy and subjected to worse exploitation than you might expect. It might hard to imagine any of this, but believe me I have been here for many years and I know, its one big can of worms.Its better to just focus on the music and by pass the heartbreaks.
Your musical influences
In no particular order, Can, Holger Czukay, Adrian Sherwood, Miles Davis, Suns of Arqa, Sun Ra, Jimi Hendrix, Herman Munster, Kraftwerk, Pierre Henry, Captain Beefheart, the Beatles, Boards of Canada, Talvin Singh, African Headcharge, Chrome, Damon Edge, Helios Creed, Negativeland, Public Image Limited, Jah Wobble, Keith Levine, The Pop Group, Rip Rig and Panic, Savage Republic, Butthole Surfers, Killing Joke, Prince Far-I, Dillinger, Doctor Alimantado, Harpo, My Bloody Valentine, Loop, The Wolfgang Press,Sonic Youth, Box O' Laffs, Moe, Bootsy, George Clinton, Eddie Hazel, Bernie Worrell, Bill Laswell, Gumby, Fritz Perls, P-Funk, Zapp, Larry Graham,Sly and the Family Stone, Ohio Players, Prince, Niles Rodgers, the Orb, Steve Hillage, Gong, Don Cherry, Nick Drake, Red House Painters, the Byrds, Iggy, the Stooges, the Ramones, The Cramps, Edward Van Halen, Chick Hearn, Vin Scully, Devo, Carlos Santana, Airto, Peres Prado, Celia Cruz, Ornette Coleman, Popul Vuh, Cheb Khaled, Rachid Taha, Defunkt, Syd Barret, Pink Floyd, Bud Powell, Thelonius Monk, Roller Derby at the Olympic Auditorium, Euripides, J.S. Bach, Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Billy Bang, Amiri Baraka/Le Roi Jones, Last Poets, Public Enemy, N.W.A., Digital Underground, Outkast, Anti-Pop Consortium, Jayne Cortez, Robert Johnson, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Magic Sam, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Albert King, Freddie King, Cream, the Yardbirds, Howlin Wolf, Anthony Braxton, Django Rheinhardt, Dizzy Gillespie, Wes Montgomery, Federico Garcia Lorca, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsburg, Ernie Kovacs, Shemp,Salvador Dali, Jean Michel Basquiat, Fred Flintstone, Barry Mc Gee, Otto Dix, Max Beckman, Hieronymous Bosch, Vassily Kandinsky, Robert Wilson, Nanos Valoritis, Homer, Chico, Ivan Arguelles, Clark Coolidge, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, Albert Hoffman, Carlos Castaneda, Yogi Bhajan, Robert Anton Wilson, Nate Mackey, Jerome Rothenberg, Clayton Eshelman, Cesar Vallejo, Bugs Bunny, Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Wilson Harris, Aime Cesaire, Zap Comics, Mad Magazine, Andre Breton, Jose Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Dylan Thomas, Amos Tutuola, Twins Seven Seven, Maya Deren, Zora Neal Hurston, Alan Lomax, Dr. John, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Guillermo Infante Cabrera, Edwin Torres, Tristan Tzara, Andre Codrescu, Ed Sanders, The Fugs, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Oum Khalsoum, Jon Anderson and Yes, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Eno, Joy Division, the Partridge Family, Boss City, Twisted Roots/Vox Pop/Forty Five Grave/Castration Squad, The Germs, Darby Crash, Flipper, Cocteau Twins, Caroliner Rainbow,Aphex Twin, Bauhaus, Porky Pig, Massive Attack, Horace Andy, Augustus Pablo, Derek Bailey, Acid/House/Trance, Frank Zappa, Cheech and Chong, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Rodney Bingenheimer, Frazier Smith, Knucklehead Smith, Monty Python, John Cage, Meredith Monk, Diamanda Galas, Andy Warhol, The Residents, Black Flag, Sex Pistols, Federico Fellini, Luis Bunuel, Jim Jarmusch, Tsui Hark, James Joyce, Flann O' Brian, Oscar Wilde, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Baudelaire, Groucho, H.D. Moe, Charles Bukowski, Tom Waits, Arthur Rimbaud, Jefferson Airplane, Malcolm X, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, Philip Lamantia, Julian Beck, Antonin Artaud, Gilligan's Island, Hijikata Tatsumi, Kazuo Ono, Norman O. Brown, Eugene Ionesco, Big Youth, King Tubby, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, Desmond Decker, Astor Piazola, Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood, Duke Ellington, Cecil Taylor, B.B. King, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Julius Erving, Magic Johnson, Earl MOnroe, Connie Hawkins, Pete Cosey, Taj Mahal, Marc Ribot, Arto Lindsay, Antonio Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Jao Gilberto, the Dennis Bovell Dub Band, Mikey Dread, The Clash, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and your Momma!What equipment do you use?
A computer, a mike, and audio interface, and various software mainly Reaktor, Ableton, and Absynth.Anything else?
I tell you later...
USA
ID
500390
Contact
Sorry, this artist currently doesn't accept email messages.
Comments (1)
Fine sounds for an afternoon, just right for today, thanks.
Tags
Promoted
Not related to artist
