There's hardly a bolder statement you could make about your band's penchant for innovation than inventing software specifically to aid your own distinctive compositional style. This is what Brent Knopf, keyboardist/vocalist/mastermind behind Portland, Oregon's Menomena did; his program is called Deeler, and it allows the band to improvise short ideas and use them as the building blocks for broad, loop-based compositions that they then learn to play live. The method borrows most obviously from hip-hop and g   [ read more ]

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Friend and Foe shines Northwest indie songcraft through a Chicago post-rock lens, illuminating the quiet recesses with an unpredictable, experimental light. Danny Seim, Justin Harris, and Brent Knopf perform, sing, arrange, create, and destroy Menomena songs. They've released two previous albums on Portland indie label Film Guerrero, I Am the Fun Blame Monster and Under An Hour, which consists of three lengthy instrumental compositions and is the soundtrack to a modern dance performance   [ read more ]

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The live performance of Under an Hour happened in 3 parts on 3 days as part of the T:BA:04 Arts Festival in Portland Oregon September 11, 12, 13, 2004. Following the performance, Menomena recorded each of these 3 parts to release as an album called Under an Hour. TRACKLIST: Part 1 WATER 17:52 / Part 2 FLOUR 18:42 /Part 3 LIGHT 17:29

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Friend and Foe shines Northwest indie songcraft through a Chicago post-rock lens, illuminating the quiet recesses with an unpredictable, experimental light. Danny Seim, Justin Harris, and Brent Knopf perform, sing, arrange, create, and destroy Menomena songs. They've released two previous albums on Portland indie label Film Guerrero, I Am the Fun Blame Monster and Under An Hour, which consists of three lengthy instrumental compositions and is the soundtrack to a modern dance performance   [ read more ]

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As the Muppet-themed reference in their name suggests, Portland, Oregon's Menomena have always had a smiley face at the core of their computer-derived experimentalism. Marrying odd rhythmic loops to Zappa-esque vocal whimsies has long been their stock in trade. The Wet and Rusting EP offers a few more samples of their deliciously off-the-wall brew, including three versions of the title track--the album version of which appears on their Barsuk debut, Friend and Foe. No serious excursions from f   [ read more ]

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This is a 13" x 24" Menomena show poster for the November 24 show with The Shaky Hands and Tu Fawning at The Crystal Ballroom. Hand-signed and numbered. Designed by: Mike King/Crash.

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