Flying Microtonal Banana

by King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard

Type: Album
Released: 24 February 2017
Label: Flightless, ATO, Heavenly
Country: Australia
Length: 41:53
Community rating: 3.92/5 from 20 ratings

Artists on this release: Stu Mackenzie, Lucas Skinner, Joey Walker, Eric Moore, Cook Craig, Ambrose Kenny-Smith

Album Notes & Community Reviews

As the first volume of 'Explorations into Microtonal Tuning', the album centers on quarter-tone compositions performed on custom-modified instruments, including guitars, basses, and harmonicas, alongside the zurna, a Turkish woodwind. This approach imbues the band's established psychedelic and acid rock sound with Anatolian and krautrock characteristics, creating trance-like drones and motorik rhythms. The result is a fusion of non-Western scales and propulsive, experimental rock that seamlessly integrates complex new tonalities into the group's accessible, high-energy style.

Genres

Descriptors: experimental, repetitive, rhythmic, fuzz, expansive

Tracklist

Rattlesnake (07:48)
Melting (05:27)
Open Water (07:13)
Sleep Drifter (04:44)
Billabong Valley (03:34)
Anoxia (03:04)
Doom City (03:14)
Nuclear Fusion (04:15)
Flying Microtonal Banana (02:34)

Credits

Michael Cavanagh - drum kit, bongos, percussion, Drums (drum Set), Bongos, Percussion
Cook Craig - microtonal guitar, microtonal bass guitar, Guitar, Bass Guitar
Ambrose Kenny-Smith - microtonal harmonica, vocals
Stu Mackenzie - microtonal guitar, microtonal bass guitar, piano, synthesizer, zurna, vocals, percussion, recording, Percussion, Piano, Guitar, Zurna, Recording, Vocal, Synthesizer, Bass Guitar
Eric Moore - drum kit, bongos, Bongos
Lucas Skinner - microtonal bass guitar
Joey Walker - microtonal guitar, microtonal bass guitar, vocals
Jarvis Taveniere - mixing, Mix
Joe Carra - mastering
Jason Galea - artwork and layout
Lucas Harwood - Bass Guitar
Ambrose Kenny‐Smith - Harmonica, Vocal
Bullant - Bass Guitar, Vocal