James Grigsby Discography of CDs

James Grigsby music CDs 5Uus is one of the more perplexing bands limning the rock-in-opposition/prog rock ethos and also one of the most inventive. The group's music displays vigorous bouts of energy amid a refined and literate sense of wordplay. Lyrics are free of the political baggage clinging to Dagmar Krause's similarly penned poetics and reflective of a playful sense of both the bizarre and the Byzantine--via Lewis G. Carroll's looking-glass. Thankfully, 5UUs swathes its ornate words in an equally hyper-intense and near-psychedelic aura of shrill guitars, keyboards that test the limits of 88-key endurance, and tumbling avalanches of percussive variants. The presence of guest Thomas DiMuzio, who contributes his own crazed collection of electronic paraphernalia to the soup, only exacerbates an already frenzied atmosphere. Nursery rhymes somehow find themselves led lemming-like through a forest perilous of King Crimsonesque nuclear bursts, while sweet harmonies hint at a parallel-universe Yes and Henry Cow/Art Bears chamber-rock pyrotechnics. HUNGER'S TEETH is an unsettling yet cathartic trip ...

James Grigsby CD discography U Totem, both the band and the eponymous album, is the result of a merger between two avant-garde bands of progressive rock/Rock-In-Opposition allegiance: the David Kerman-led 5uu's and the James Grigsby-led Motor Totemist Guild. U Totem is a two-headed beast, a wonderful ...

James Grigsby albums Of all of James Grigsby's productions, whether it is with the Motor Totemist Guild or U Totem, Strange Attractors is the work he will be remembered for. This album, weaved on a complex story line jumping back and forth from 1957 to 1985 to 2012, contains some of the best music avant-prog had to offer in 1990s. The lineup for this album is mostly Sanjay Kumar (keyboards), David Kerman (drums), Eric Johnson (bassoon), Emily Hay (flute, singing), Steve Cade (guitar), and Grigsby (guitar, bass, computer, tapes), ...

James Grigsby discography The progressive rock quartet's exotic collection of multiple esoteric styles encompasses the funky, raucous "Slap the Patch," the odd, post-psychedelic "Remember the Time," and the skewed reggae-calypso of "Disability Waitress," in a dazzling display of eclectic expertise. Audio Mixer: Bob Drake. Recording information: Studio Midi-Pyrenees, Caudeval, France (10/18/2004-10/22/2004). Photographer: James Grigsby. Nimby: Dave Kerman (drums, percussion); James Grigsby, Jerry Wheeler, Bob Drake. Personnel: Jerry Wheeler (vocals, whistling, harmonica, trombone); Bob Drake (vocals, guitar, banjo, violin, bass guitar); James Grigsby (guitar, organ).

James Grigsby songs In late 1997, James Grigsby resurrected the Motor Totemist Guild -- a unit that had disbanded in 1989 when Grigsby and Emily Hay formed U Totem with 5uu's members David Kerman and Sanjay Kumar -- and expanded it to a 14-piece big-band outfit. This new and improved Motor Totemist Guild includes former Totemists Hay (voice, flute), Lynn Johnston (clarinets, saxes), and Eric Johnson-Tamai (bassoon), along with musicians from the 1990s West Coast new jazz scene such as Vinny Golia (clarinets, saxes), Jeff Kaiser (trumpet), and Brad ...

James Grigsby CD discography POINT OF VIEWS is a collection of previously vinyl-only material. Personnel: Curt Wilson (vocals); James Grigsby (guitar, flute, trumpet, keyboards, vibraphone, snake); Ken Ando, Greg Conway (guitar); Becky Heninger (cello); Emily Hay (flute); Eric Johnson (bassoon); Lynn Johnston (woodwinds); Dave Kerman (piano, keyboards, drums); Gene Carl, Jim Norman (piano); Chuck Turner, Sanjay Kumar (keyboards). Recording information: Backlot Studios, Burbank, CA (1984-1987); Telstar Studios, Burbank, CA (1984-1987).