Grand Opening and Closing

by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Grand Opening and Closing cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 October 2001
  • Label: Seeland
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:17:01
  • Community rating: 4.14/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: temple bells, Frank Grau, David Shamrock, Carla Kihlstedt, Moe! Staiano, Dan Rathbun

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating as both a musical ensemble and an apocalyptic performance art collective, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum utilized an array of custom-built, bizarre instruments to achieve their singular sound. 'Grand Opening and Closing' is a theatrical barrage of jagged avant-metal riffs, complex rhythmic interplay, and macabre, vaudevillian vocals. The album's unsettling and entirely unpredictable architecture defies easy categorization, standing as a landmark of modern avant-prog.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, rhythmic, uncommon-time-signatures, unpredictable, experimental, theatrical, dissonant, progressive

Tracklist

  1. Sleep Is Wrong (6:35)
  2. Ambugaton (5:38)
  3. Ablutions (6:12)
  4. 1997 (Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's...) (4:56)
  5. The Miniature (1:04)
  6. Powerless (9:32)
  7. The Stain (6:46)
  8. Sleepytime (Spirit is a Bone) (10:28)
  9. Sunflower (7:52)
  10. More Time - Bonus Track (2:47)
  11. Flinch - Bonus Track (5:24)
  12. Powerless (Live 01/06/06) - Bonus Track (9:42)

Credits

  • David Shamrock - drums, piano, music by
  • Carla Kihlstedt - electric violin, guitar [percussion guitar], autoharp, organ [pump organ], voice, music by, words by
  • Nils Frykdahl - guitar [6 string], twelve-string guitar [12 string], temple bells [tibetan bells], autoharp, voice, songwriter [song], words by
  • Moe! Staiano - performer [metal, spring, popping turtle, food containers], marimba [pressure cap marimba], guitar [sping-nail guitar], timpani [tympani], percussion
  • Hank Williams - words by [word]
  • Nancy Elliot - music by
  • Frank Grau - drums

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