Neptune

If you are keen on my instruments I can recommend checking out the band Neptune from Boston. My work is more focused on putting odd sounds in a logical workable system than theirs. The sounds they create however are pretty close to the sounds of my moodswinger and other instruments. They mainly make very cool Mad Max alike looking instruments and afterwards learn how to play on it. Though they are aware of the Microtonal Art of Harry Partch, they don’t incorporate the physical laws of consonance very much into their work and it’s not their intention to create consonant perfect sound, but create new sound out of an intuitive playing technique. Noisy tribal rythmic music is the result, matching with the looks of their instruments.

The bariton guitars I’ve seen are made from VCR casings and are employed with a 3rd Bridge movable drumstick, which allows them to play the strings at the short side as well as on the other side, where there is no pickup. Quiet similar to how Pat Noecker has prepared his bass guitar. An in depth clarification about this playing technique can be found in Chapter 2 – Prepared Guitar Techniques, 2.1 Third Bridge. They also make synths and electric thumb piano’s.

Their last album Gong Lake appeared on Rhys Chatham’s Table of the Elements label. Chatham had a very good explanation about their art. He told me Neptune is the only true heavy metal band. Their instruments are made of metal and are really heavy to carry.

Biography

Neptune is a band from Boston, Mass. that began in 1996 as a sculpture project. All instruments are/were sculpted from scrap steel by Jason. Neptune plays large menacing instruments that have evident histories as saw blades, bike parts, oil drums, and etcetera. Neptune plays loud noisy art-punk that you can almost dance to.

Neptune is Jason Sanford, Mark William Pearson, John Douglas Manson, and Daniel Paul Boucher.

Discografie

Knife Fight E.P., 7". (autoproduit, 1996)

Swang!/Poodle Walk, 7" single. (Anti-Social Records, 1996)

Studio Recordings, May MCMXCVII, CD/LP. (Archenemy Records, 1999)

Your Company/Productivity is a Science, 7" Single. (Heliotrope Records, 2000)

Basement Recordings E.P., 6 song CD. (Mister Records, 2001)

At the Pink Pony/A Car Is A Weapon, Live 7" Single. (Mister Records, 2002)

The Ballet of Process, Full Length CD/LP. (Mister/100% Breakfast Records, 2002)

Intimate Lightning, Full Length CD/LP. (Mister/100% Breakfast Records, 2004)

Green Cassette, 5 chansons C30 Cassette. (Wrong Whole Records, 2005)

3" CDR, 5 song CDR. (Magnetism Crafts, 2005)