Estradasphere
Unmistakably derived from the genre-bending loins of experimental rockers Mr. Bungle and Secret Chiefs 3, Estradasphere respectfully lives up to the ambitious musical aims of their wildly talented mentors. Tim Harris, violin and trumpet, Dave Murray, drums, Jason Schimmel, guitar and banjo, bassist Tim Smolens, and John Wooley, saxophone, met in the late '90s at the U.C.-Santa Cruz school of music, where they shared an interest in the tackiest aspects of pop culture and the most excessive forms of music. Their first album, It's Understood, appeared with next to no commercial fanfare in the spring of 2000 as the first release on Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance's homespun label Mimicry Records. Their hectic mix of jazz, metal, video game themes, and bluegrass was eaten up by hardcore Mr. Bungle fans, but went largely unnoticed elsewhere. With instrumentation resembling Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Estradasphere doesn't always evoke immediate sonic comparisons to Mr. Bungle, but their manic, short-attention-span philosophy of composition ostensibly does... Full Bio
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