Disco Volante

by Mr. Bungle

Disco Volante cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 10 October 1995
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:08:44
  • Community rating: 4.2/5 from 11 ratings

Artists on this release: Danny Heifetz, Clinton "Bär" McKinnon, Graham Connah, Trey Spruance, Trevor Dunn, William Winant, Lisandro Adrover, Theo Lengyel, Mike Patton

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Disco Volante' is a staggeringly complex, deeply terrifying exercise in genre schizophrenia and avant-garde rock. Mike Patton leads the band through highly manic, chaotic shifts between brutal death metal, lounge jazz, and surreal sound collages, creating an eclectic, challenging masterpiece.

Genres

Descriptors: leftfield, lounge, avant-garde, complex, genre-blending, experimental, theatrical, satirical

Tracklist

  1. Everyone I Went to High School with Is Dead (2:45)
  2. Chemical Marriage (3:09)
  3. Carry Stress in the Jaw (8:59)
  4. Desert Search for Techno Allah (5:23)
  5. Violenza Domestica (5:14)
  6. After School Special (2:47)
  7. Phlegmatics (3:16)
  8. Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz (6:06)
  9. The Bends (10:28)
  10. Backstrokin' (2:27)
  11. Platypus (5:07)
  12. Merry Go Bye Bye (With Hidden Track "Noises") (12:57)

Credits

  • Mr. Bungle - primary artist, layout, design, producer
  • Trey Spruance - artwork, music by, written-by, graphic design, electronics guitar keyboard organ pipa instrument
  • Trevor Dunn - bass, viola [vile], written-by, lyrics by, double bass electric bass guitar
  • Adam Muñoz - engineer [assistant], additional assistant engineer
  • Chris Roberts - engineer [assistant], additional assistant engineer
  • Dave Ogilvie - engineer [assistant]
  • Kevin Donlon - engineer [assistant], additional assistant engineer
  • Mike Bogus - engineer [assistant], additional assistant engineer
  • Mike Johnson - engineer [assistant]
  • Trevor Ward - engineer [assistant], additional assistant engineer
  • Billy Anderson - engineer, mixed by, audio, additional mastering, mix
  • Gregg Turkington - layout, design
  • Margaret Murray - layout, design
  • Bernie Grundman - mastered by, mastering
  • Mike Patton - music by, vocals, electronics [microcassette], ocarina, written-by, lyrics by, organ, vocal
  • Davis Meltzer - photography by [back page of booklet]
  • Arthur Hertz - photography by [front cover], photography
  • Joseph A. Thompson - photography by [outer tray card], photography
  • Graham Connah - piano
  • Uncooked Meat Prior To State Vector Collapse - pipa [p'ip'a], keyboards, organ, guitar, electronics
  • Theobald Brooks Lengyel - reeds [eb reeds piped in from ithaca]
  • Clinton "Bär" McKinnon - tenor saxophone, clarinet, drums, keyboards, written-by, music by, clarinet tenor saxophone
  • I Quit - wood block [woodblock]
  • William Winant - cymbal, bongos, tabla, kanjira, percussion [sistrums], jew's harp, percussion, bongos, xylophone, glockenspiel
  • Lisandro Adrover - bandoneon
  • Michael Johnson - assistant engineer, additional mastering
  • David Ogilvy - additional assistant engineer
  • Danny Heifetz - membranophone
  • Theo Lengyel - alto saxophone clarinet cymbal flute trombone
  • David Meltzer - photography

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