TUMBA SWING - One Man Band

Tumba Swing is another one-man-band from Spain, this one decidedly rawer than his compatriot One Hand's Man Band, whom I posted before this. But this just goes to show that the INTERNATIONAL ONE-MAN-BAND REVOLUTION is worthy of capitals, like I'm screaming it off a roof. One guy/girl ramming away on a guitar and percussion, drowning out  their own lyrics, that if you would hear them would help you understand the secret to the seven seals enclosed in the book of revelation. 666. That said, I know nothing more about this guy than you, apart from the video below. But the word will be spread even further. Now. 

TUMBA SWING (La orija para el toro)

One Hand's Man Band

Hey Syphilites,

I've been away from the one-man-bands for a while but this one was easy as it was sent straight into my inbox. One Hand Man's Band is a one-man-band from Spain, playing serious punk-blues. (By the way, do not confuse this act with One Man Hand, which is a one-man-band from Portugal). This guy reminds me a little bit of Jawbone. Good stuff.

This is him live in January of this year

And this is in June of 2010 in Madrid

One Hand Man's Band (La Boca del Lobo, Madrid, 13/06/2010) from Gon on Vimeo.

J Boozer - Happy 4:20 Surgeon General

Hastings 3000 at SXSW

One Man Band Hastings 3000 at SXSW (from 3:30) on Episode 6 of the Lazy Day Lounge  - Star and Micey open de video with some folk-tunes that are unfortunately hard to hear due to a siren screaming throughout nearly their whole bit.

One Man Hand #2

Posted about this guy before here.


This is his new video:

I still don't speak Portuguese, so I don't have much more to tell...

The Fly and His One-Man-Garbage

Behold: The Fly and His One-Man-Garbage from Japan as recommended by Dead Elvis - follow the link to read a great interview - And take time to consider Japan's current troubles and think how you can help. Maybe send a little money this way?

Rumble in the Jungle Tour - promo vid - Dead Elvis, The Fabulous Go-Go Boy From Alabama, The Amazing One-Man-Band, and The Great Munzini

Oh Syphilites,


I came across this one via the legendary Mamma Vendetta - A promo vid for the Rumble in the Jungle tour with four one-man-bands - as listed above. The video is by Revolta Films (Follow the link to their video channel, much more to be enjoyed)


The video features these four songs:
Dead Elvis & His One Man Grave - Get out of my grave
The Fabulous Go Go Boy From Alabama & His One Man Band - Abababoom
The Amazing One Man Band- Chicken Walk
The Great Munzini and The Astonishing Sotos - Dead End Girl





More info here:
www.myspace.com/monobandas
www.myspace.com/caffeinesoundstudio
www.mammavendetta.com


Original post from Mamma Vendetta (Blogspot) (in Portuguese)

Yn Gizarm

How'z about some Chinese Black Metal one-man-band awesomeness for a change?

Mr Bonz - 'Playing with strings' 7"

Syphilites,


Mr Bonz - 'Playing with strings' 7" is now out on Stencil Trash Records. 


"300 copies come with a printed cover with a wonderful artwork by cat the cat:

34 copies come on clear purple wax and a two-colored sprayed cover:

and another 21 copies on clear purple wax with a 3-colored sprayed cover:

Prices (excl. shipping costs):
lim. 300 edit. 5€
lim. 34 edit. 8€
lim. 21 edit. 11€

For ordering write to stenciltrash@googlemail.com"

The Space Cookie and his One Man Band

I'm not sure if this guy is still around anymore. I couldn't find much. He is from Brazil. This is his myspace.

And this is a song:

There are a few more at his myspace.

This is a lazy post. Deal with it.

King Louie One Man Band

King Louie is a one-man-band from Louisiana. He has released quite a bit of stuff, as you can read on his Myspace, but I can't find a lot easily. Maybe I can't be bothered, but the info is right there so follow the link above and go a-searching. I know you can get his 2004 album 'Chinese Crawfish' here. That's all I got.


This is him in 2007

One Man Hand

Hey Syphilites,


One Man Hand is a bluesy one-man-band from Portugal. He has released a 7" 'We are all in the same boat' in 2008 and a full-length 'Mafia Trip' which, as far as I can tell, will be released later this year. You can download the single 'Red Light House' over at Soundcloud. 


I found two more songs by the same man at 1bigo, which I think is his booking agent. I can't tell. I don't speak Portuguese.

1bigo - Artistas 

1bigo - Artistas


There are a couple of videos I found for you too:

Cocaine + We Are All In The Same Boat



Red Light House



Live

Mr. Bonz One Man Band

Buy it

Mr Bonz is a one-man-band from France, who plays rackety blues-punk. You can buy his second album 'Wreck on the Highway' here.




This is him live.



"I'm Leavin' Town"


"Big Fat Mama"



MYSPACE

O Lendario Chucrobillyman

Don't forget you can get 

O Lendario Chucrobillyman's

entire discography here

given to you by the man himself.

You want to listen to this.

Heed the call of the elixir. 

Bloodshot Bill - Live at ToBeScene Studios, Toronto

That announcer looks like Bobcat Goldthwait (Zed from Police Academy)

M Jack Bee - Interview

Hey Syphilites,

I have told you before about M Jack Bee, here and I posted about his new EP 'In Loops' before here. The EP is for sale from both Vitamin Records and from Itunes. The EP gets played here at least once a week, most times more, and I am mesmerised by these songs. I decided that it was time to delve deeper into this masterpiece EP so I proposed an interview with the man himself and it went a little something like this:




Syphilis of the Brain: Hey Fucknuts,

Let's do an email interview for my blog about your EP and music and whatever else. What shall we start with?


M Jack Bee:  Questions I think, or that I have a very massive....... following in Borneo.


SOB: tell me more about your following in Borneo.


M Jack Bee: It came about when their youth became disillusioned with the indigenous music there, they felt it had become too predictable and stale. When in loops was released, it spoke to their hearts containing references to their heritage whilst offering a dangerous new way to live a musical life on the edge.


SOB: How does your EP 'In Loops' signify 'a dangerous new way to live a musical life on the edge'? Also, do you view the songs on 'In Loops' as separate from each other, or are they part of the same unit, in your eyes?


M Jack Bee: It was dangerous because I committed to the fact it was going to be recorded live, and being on the beautifully tight indie budget, if I didn't pull it off I would have lost my recording funds for the year for some shitty live takes. It's one story in my eyes. When your faced with life and you're slowly growing and you start seeing the patterns emerge, the cycles of the shit you know your not dealing with, that's when you're in loops. So each track to me is another one of those circumstances resurfacing.


SOB: Can you tell us what patterns/cycles inspired 'Moth' and 'Farewell'?


M Jack Bee: Moth was from waking up at night with this image of my skin sagging off my face, on the third night this happened there was this insane tapping on the window, and when I put the lamp on it got crazier. And I was a bit jealous that this bug had the balls to fly right into the flame and die for it's goal while I'm left stuck dreaming of the sad old man I could be. 







Farewell was the first realization of the cycle. If we had funerals for each part of us that passes, farewell would be the eulogy that my dying teenage spirit would sing for itself as a passing shot at the adult.

(Video by Anja Bell and Simon Laity)

SOB:Wow, so both are about growing older and its side-effects. Are you afraid of growing old? Also, do you feel that by writing songs about these, supposed, fears, you actually end up breaking these loops you find yourself in?


M Jack Bee: never. fears live with you always, all you can do is notice them and let them not stop you from doing whatever it is you need to be doing. i'm concerned with each passing day that's for sure, but not afraid to grow old, as long as I'm doing my thing it will be fine..... these songs only bring me back to the awareness of the fears, what i want to break, and are only effective when performed. writing them is not nearly enough.


SOB:So you recorded the EP live in a tiny dark studio over in Byron Bay. Will you stick with this type of recording for a while? What are the advantages and what are the difficulties? And tell us a bit more about the studio while you are at it.


M Jack Bee: It was an old queenslander house up in the hills behind Byron, the home of producer Christian Pyle (Studio Lot 64). This guy has been on the road for 20 years or more collecting gear, and it looks wild out there but everything has been very thoughtfully placed and he writes songs so he knows how a space should feel for someone to perform in. Id prefer to work in spaces full of quirk, character, and life with a twisted solitary edge, so I won't be rushing to a clinical studio anytime soon. You can't fake the drone of the crickets or the haunting scream of a catbird mid song, that stuff makes a record for me.


The advantage is a record full of brooding life, the disadavantAge is not having an FM sounding sweet pop record that would sell to the masses...... but you gotta think of the book you'll have in your mind as you lay on your deathbed and which path would make you prouder to reflect on.


SOB: Brilliant stuff. Let's finish off with this: What are your plans musically for 2011?


M Jack Bee: One more in loops tour in April whilst recording new LP. This time I'm setting up to record live with a band of ramshackle geniuses and pull some soul back into rock and roll. That and hopefully get to Borneo, the kids need me.

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M Jack Bee has a few shows locked in over the next month or so. Note he will be supporting M. Ward on the 25th of Feb in Byron Bay. Keep an eye on his shows here. 


Feb 17: Beetle Bar, Brisbane, QLD, Aus, 7pm


Feb 18: Byron Bay Brewery, Byron Bay, NSW, Aus


Feb 24: Gold Coast Arts Centre Basement, Goldcoast, QLD, Aus, 7pm


Feb 25: Byron Theatre - Supporting M. Ward, Byron Bay, NSW, Aus, 7pm


Mar 17: The Gollan, Lismore, NSW, Aus, 7pm

Remember to get it here

Daniela and Ben Spector - Cut it out (ft. M Jack Bee)

Youtube video Description: 


"Cut it out" is the new single out of "Love is" the mutual album-project of Daniela & Ben Spector.

Download the single for FREE here: http://danielaandbenspector.bandcamp....

join Daniela and Ben on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Daniela...

Follow Daniela and Ben on Twitter:: http://twitter.com/#!/MRandMrsSpector

Who is M Jack Bee?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNHF52...

The video was shot by pro videographer Mike Mccrimon,thanks to his courtesy, we were able to use it. Eran Hilleli helped to bring it all together.

Mike Mccrimon::http://vimeo.com/user3450726
Eran Hilleli::http://eranhilleli.com/

Haunted George

Hey Syphilites,

Haunted George is a dark piece of work from the dark woods of California. His music is ghoulish and dirge-like. Where Hasil Adkins attempted to keep some of his sanity, this guy has let go completely. A weird piece of work. 

How about 'hit you with my hammer' for example?

Or 'The Embalmer'?

He has got plenty of stuff for sale: Dead Beat have got his Bone Hauler. In The Red Records have got his 'Where's Charlie' 12" and his latest 'American Crow'. Hook or Crook still stock his two other LP's 'Pile O Meat' and 'Panther Howl'. You can find his whole discography over at Discogs.


And to really get you going: A couple of vids for ya.


'Weeks in a Casket'



And I'm not quite sure what is going on in this vid and I'm not even sure it is him. But it is weird and I like it. A few men banging on shit in the desert. Like something out of Fear and Loathing. Or the Manson Family. Dark dark stuff.

Pretty picture

Jack Rabbit Blood - Two headed snake

I can't tell you much more on this guy than this video. His myspace is down. Or under a different name. I came across him when checking out the info on the 'One-man-bands, Hillbillys and Monsters' compilation by Dirty Ugly Records, which is for sale over at Squoodge for a mere 5.75 Euros. The comp also features Bloodshot Bill and Mosquito Bandito. And that is all I've got on this guy. For now.

Wild Mustang - Demo Download

Wild Mustang is the new kid on the block and you can download his demo from his Facebook page! I've been listening to it all evening. Great stuff, really. He reminds me a little bit of Jay Reatard. There is a little keyboard involved in there somewhere. How that makes a difference I don't know, but it does. It really does. He also makes cigarbox guitars (see photo) that you can by from here.


These two are my favourites from his Myspace. They are on the demo too:

Stencil Trash Records is planning to release a 5" of Wild Mustang soon. They have just released their first 7", Chuck Violence's 'Extra Flavor'. (This is their Myspace)