Caroliner, or Caroliner Rainbow, as they were also known, have been one of the more enigmatic groups for the past 20+ years, and after a multi-year hiatus, they've gotten back together to play live shows again.
If you've seen them live, you will understand that this is an event.
I saw them open for Come at the Lounge Axe in the winter of 92-93, on Come's first tour, and it was a fairly out there/great fun event. Psychedelic day glo costumes and masks, black light, the entire stage covered in colored panels and hanging props, the music sounded like shrieking noise skronk freakouts for the duration.
They apparently describe their own music as "industrial bluegrass," though they sound more like a psych noise industrial thing with stringed instruments. Fairly indescribable actually, and to be honest, melody does make a pleasant appearance from time to time. They're from the Bay area and often get compared to their neighbors, the Residents and Sun City Girls. Members' identities are apparently secret, and as I mentioned, they performed in masks and costumes. Some members also played in Thinking Fellers' Union Local 282, yet another eclectic early 90s band who made nice records w/ weird orchestrations and odd instrumentation but who were a bit of a snore live (at least when I saw them, circa '95).
I've been listening to Caroliner's album, The Cooking Stove Beast from 1992, and thought that I'd see what they are up to these days with the new live shows . . .
There's an entire post devoted to them here, including coverage of an exhibition that curates their 23-year existence, but which also has a great you tube snippet of their live show (which looks almost exactly the way that they did when I saw them):
http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=476&Itemid=90
Decentl wiki article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroliner
Anyone interested in discussing Caroliner or their related projects (including Rubber O Cement, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, and even Deerhoof)?
If you've seen them live, you will understand that this is an event.
I saw them open for Come at the Lounge Axe in the winter of 92-93, on Come's first tour, and it was a fairly out there/great fun event. Psychedelic day glo costumes and masks, black light, the entire stage covered in colored panels and hanging props, the music sounded like shrieking noise skronk freakouts for the duration.
They apparently describe their own music as "industrial bluegrass," though they sound more like a psych noise industrial thing with stringed instruments. Fairly indescribable actually, and to be honest, melody does make a pleasant appearance from time to time. They're from the Bay area and often get compared to their neighbors, the Residents and Sun City Girls. Members' identities are apparently secret, and as I mentioned, they performed in masks and costumes. Some members also played in Thinking Fellers' Union Local 282, yet another eclectic early 90s band who made nice records w/ weird orchestrations and odd instrumentation but who were a bit of a snore live (at least when I saw them, circa '95).
I've been listening to Caroliner's album, The Cooking Stove Beast from 1992, and thought that I'd see what they are up to these days with the new live shows . . .
There's an entire post devoted to them here, including coverage of an exhibition that curates their 23-year existence, but which also has a great you tube snippet of their live show (which looks almost exactly the way that they did when I saw them):
http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=476&Itemid=90
Decentl wiki article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroliner
Anyone interested in discussing Caroliner or their related projects (including Rubber O Cement, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, and even Deerhoof)?
