Purple Onion

by Les Claypool's Frog Brigade

Purple Onion cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 September 2002
  • Label: Prawn Song Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 56:04
  • Community rating: 3.49/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Warren Haynes, John Norwood Fisher, Les Claypool, Skerik, Mike Dillon, Jay Lane, Ben Barnes, Sam Bass

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Les Claypool's Frog Brigade shape 'Purple Onion' from funk rock materials, foregrounding complex detail and a psychedelic sense of space. Across its tracks the record maintains a coherent sonic identity, balancing immediate hooks against slower, atmospheric development.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, melodic, guitars, rhythmic, accessible

Tracklist

  1. Purple Onion (1:43)
  2. David Makalaster (4:41)
  3. Buzzards Of Green Hill (4:06)
  4. Long In The Tooth (1:51)
  5. Whamola (5:00)
  6. Ding Dang (5:50)
  7. Barrington Hall (4:16)
  8. D's Diner (5:44)
  9. Lights In The Sky (4:35)
  10. Up On The Roof (3:39)
  11. David Makalaster II (7:25)
  12. Cosmic Highway (7:14)

Credits

  • Ron Percell - artwork [cover art]
  • Jesse Rice - supervised by [project supervisor]
  • Skerik - saxophone [regular sax, fancy sax], baritone saxophone [baritone sax], saxophone [fancy sax]
  • Mike Dillon - vibraphone, drum [metal], percussion, tabla [baya], pandeiro [pandiero], e-bow [electric bow & arrow], sounds [metal], cuica, marimba, vibraphone, percussion [metal], vibraphone, tabla
  • Eenor - backing vocals [background vox], tambourine [yoili tambour], jew's harp [jaw harp], slide guitar, guitar, backing vocals [background vox], tambourine [yaili tambour]
  • Sam Bass - viola, cello
  • Dean Johnson - drums [outro]

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