The Organ Grinder's Monkey
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
Genres: glitch, indie, digital, rock, Lo-Fi
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About The Organ Grinder's Monkey
The Organ Grinder's Monkey is the brainchild of Brighton-based musician/producer Ben Garnett. Essentially a solo project masquerading as a duo, Ben provides guitar and vocals while his laptop/best friend "Bill Murray" handles beats and FX. The resulting sound is an attempt to combine the glitchy stutter and madness of Bill's favourite electronic artists (Aphex Twin, Squarepusher) with the freewheeling maverick indie-rock of Ben's youth (Super Furry Animals, The Boo Radleys, Grandaddy). A shared love of 8-bit computer game sounds provides further inspiration for the pair. "Zero Life Experience" is the name of their latest EP, released in March 2016, as the group plan to gig regularly into the new year. Live shows so far have included successful supports with fellow one-man-band Thomas Truax and hyperactive indie-popsters Bearsuit. The challenge of recreating the complex TOGM sound live is met by employing a variety of technological tricks: Ben feeds the sound of his guitar and voice through Bill's circuits in order to record and loop live parts, triggering instruments and samples via a MIDI pedal-board. Ben’s guitars and vocals bounce along on Bill’s broken beats, all the while being looped and twisted through banks of digital FX to create new shapes and unpredictable forms, but never sacrificing the underlying pop sensibilities. "Audience participation [is] taken to a new level" as the duo allow gig-goers to perform a real-time remix of one Sega-inspired track using a modified game controller: Official website:http://www.togm.co.uk
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