Neptune (band)

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Neptune
Neptune

Neptune is a noise music band from Boston that built all their custom made guitars and basses out of heaps of scrap metal. The bass is built using a VCR casing and another one of their instruments has a jagged scythe at the end of it. They also play on custom made percussion instruments and electric lamellophones.

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[edit] Personnel

  • Jason Sanford - baritone guitar, oscillator organ, electric thumb piano, foot controlled rhythmic oscillator, tupperphone, small electric spring, vocals
  • Mark Pearson - baritone guitar, 4 string slide, bass, oscillators, homemade synths, large electric spring, light switch synthesizer, percussion, vocals
  • Daniel Boucher - drums, electric floor tom, drum-triggered oscillators, telegraph noise box, electric gas pipe, vocals

[edit] Band history

Neptune's origins trace to 1994 as a student art project by sculptor/musician Jason Sanford, who forged heavy, menacing-looking guitars and drums out of circular saw blades, gas tanks, oil drums, bike parts, VCR casings and miscellaneous scrap metal found in the trash.

The early guitars were haphazard and untunable, resulting in the atonal garage clamor of the early recordings. With several different members and collaborators over the years, the music has evolved with the instruments blending the traditional sounds of rock & roll with industrial soundscapes. The current three-piece lineup relies as heavily on home-made electronics as it does its signature scrap metal instruments. Improvisation and performance art play key roles in their live shows.

In summer of 2006 Neptune signed with Table of the Elements, an experimental record label that is home to acts such as Rhys Chatham, John Cale, Captain Beefheart.

Neptune played 117 shows in 2006 with, two US tours and a two month trek throughout Europe and the UK. Neptune is known to tour the US in a psychedelic vintage telephone van with a merman painted on its side.

Neptune has played with many other indie-rock acts such as Mission of Burma, The Ex, Liars, Oneida, Enon, Lightning Bolt, Black Dice, Flaming Lips, Blonde Redhead, Erase Errata, Melt Banana, Arab on Radar, Wolf Eyes,James Chance & the Contortions, Parts and Labor.

[edit] Discography

  • Knife Fight E.P., 4 song 7", self released, 1996
  • Swang!/Poodle Walk, 7" single. Anti-Social Records,1996
  • Studio Recordings, May MCMXCVII, Full Length CD/LP, Archenemy Records, 1999
  • Your Company/Productivity is a Science, 7" Single, Heliotrope Records, 2000
  • Basement Recordings E.P., 6 song CD, Mister Records, 2001
  • At the Pink Pony/A Car Is A Weapon, Live 7" Single, Mister Records, 2002
  • The Ballet of Process, Full Length CD/LP, Mister/100% Breakfast Records, 2002
  • Intimate Lightning, Full Length CD/LP, Mister/100% Breakfast Records, 2004
  • Green Cassette, 5 Song C30 Cassette, Wrong Whole Records, 2005
  • 3" CDR, 5 song CDR, Magnetism Crafts, 2005
  • Mice and Worms, 6 Song 12" LP, Magnetism Crafts / Self-Release 2005
  • White Cassette, 4 Song C20 Cassette, Magnetism Crafts, 2005
  • 3" Collage CDR, 2 Songs, Magnetism Crafts / Self-Release 2006
  • Patterns, Full Length CD/LP, Self-Release (US) / Fortissimo (UK) / Les Potagers Natures (France), 2006
  • Red Cassette, 6 Improvisations, C30 Cassette, Magnetism Crafts, 2006
  • 3" CDR, 3 song 3" CDR, Hiddenbirdhouse, 2006
  • Untitled Improvised LP, Full Length, LP only, Golden Lab Records, 2007
  • Split LP, Full length split w/ One Second Riot, LP only, Distile Records, 2007

[edit] Videos

  • The Penetrating Gaze Video by Bill T. Miller, recorded at the Middle East, Cambridge, MA, 12/29/2005
  • Live in Strasbourg France (Full Set, 11 Songs), Recorded live at Le Zanzibar, Strasbourg, France, 9/27/06 | video by Normaltv.org

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