ALOHA and MAHALO for checking us out, if it wasn't mentioned before. We take freedom of Mind, Time, Self, and overall BEING BEing Being(s) seriously, so sincerely, THANK YOU for using yours here to get a better understanding of us here. Hopefully there is something here that offers you the experience of reveling in your most ideal state/way of BEING BEing the Being that is you. Yeah, a frickin' cartoon clown said that. Hey look, Y'all got AI out there, that y'all made, not to mention the other numerous spiritual beings and realms, so nothing here should come off as weird or deep. It just is, like you just are, and ALL just is. Not deep, especially since you understand it, and already knew it. Anyways, this whole project is a few different things forming into one thing. I don't even know what to call it. It started with the music (band) but it goes a lot of places. There's a philosophy book of thoughts ("The Book Of The Fire"), there's Memes and other funny and philosophical images, all sorts of artwork, of course music, videos, comics... The DIARY/Blog is pretty cool with all of our adventures and the development of the band, stories behind the music and us as individuals (for the most part), breakdown of lyrics, yadda yadda yadda. To REALLY understand it all, that's a good place to start. Yeah, you could just go exploring by clicking the menu buttons and see where it takes ya, but since we're here, I guess we could start with the band....
The Band (long story short)
We're a cartoon band (or virtual or whatever they call it now) who met and formed in Limbodelphia (between your reality in Philly, Pa, USA, and ONE OF the cartoon realities of it) in like 1998 or '99. We basically shift levels (dimension-hop/ portal jump) and bar hop, sometimes doing gigs, and/or just hanging out in realities and dimensions, digging BEING BEing Being(s)... looking for the purest vibrations of BEING BEing Being and trying to understand and know that, and "WHY" that.
We all met and formed the band in Philly thanks to my (Zeph) brother Byrdo who is an artist as well. He helped us produce and record our first tracks, back when it was just Tyy (drums) and me (Zeph) doing hip hop/rap stuff. After that, Slikk (Bearnardo /bass/dj ) got us into some other styles after seeing and hearing the passion and potential, i guess, and we morphed into more of a alt-punk'ish band: rock, funk, jazz, blues, hiphop, experimental. Later on Slikk introduced us to Charlie (guitar) and it became what we are now.
- MEMBERS: CHARLIE AI JHAYDE - guitar/keys... "FLYY" TYY - drums/beats.... BEARNARDO "B. SLIKK" - bass/dj.... ZEPHANIAH RAZE CHESTERFIELD - vox/guitar/bass. (Sometimes BYRDO "little byrd" - guitar/bass/beats.)
The adventures are all being written in the DIARY in more detail, but you can see various stories and timelines in each of the comic styles and some in the music and artwork too. There's a few different realities playing out at the same time here. The music and artwork is everywhere. It started there and then other things came into play (a few wars between realms and beings, a couple worlds destroyed, a few really good shows, some great toasts with cool folks, etc.) which is in the blog and artwork and music as well.
The Music
CREATION? So, we do all of our own everything. Basically, since we live in a haunted abandoned insane asylum in limbo and have a few studio rooms and jam rooms there, it just comes down to applying control over our own mind, self (BEING) and then using said time, space, and being for that. Everyone has time, mind, and BEING, but they just don't use it for that. Everything is something to do, even loop your self after having wasted a few lifetimes reveling in the distractions of higher selves which may be hell for the lower selves, but, again, everything is something to do. C'est la guerre (me over there). Some rooms are portals and do what they want, which is interesting, but for the most part all of our stuff is recorded there. But, yeah, so we'll walk into a room (set up for "doing music") and walk out with the finished whole thing. So the writing, playing, recording, mixing/editing, images, videos, posting, commenting, everything... one of us had to do that. Our equipment ain't the best either, so you can do way better than us. We're badass, yeah, but we wanna see you go just as hard doing your thing, if not harder.
STYLE? GENRE? It's just... music. We're still pretty punk/hip hop (same same) in attitude but our "genre" or style of music is what WE CALL "Blacklight Vomit (MUSIC)" because it reminds us all a bit of the experience of staggering home in a daze from self-inflicted (and some just alluring darker lights) intoxication by the red electric flashing blur of the city/world, and making it home to puke it all up... the cleanse of that purge, and rush of all of that poison mixed with wasted nutrient, all spinning down the drain. Relationships with people, spirits, spirituality, vices... concept things like what its like to be a voice, philosophical stuff, scientific stuff, horror stuff, fun stuff, loving and loathing living and not, and pulling no punches... We just have fun making our music and seeing what we can do. All sharing our light and pushing for silence and the want to not make anymore, at least for a while. I guess we make music to help us find the vibe that allows everything to shut up. The BANDCAMP page has a good description of songs, and some backstory and info. Plus we try to get images that kinda look how the song sounded to us (at the time). ALL of the music is there. We that page share with out fam because it's just convenient. We can hardly keep up with all of the other sites and crap, and don't really care to because it distracts from creating. Yeah, some of it inspires creation, and connections, but you don't want to get sucked down that hole. We dig music and art, not the industry or soul and life sucking industry of it. "But you gotta do blah blah blah." Fuck that. We do what we want. Our life here ain't forever, and that bullshit will be here sucking down souls long after we're gone.