Caca Volante News

Mike Patton lends his vocals on an upcoming track by Tagaq entitled “Fire ~ Ikuma” from the album “Auk/Blood”. Read more about it and listen to the track at ickmusic.com.

Recently, a lot of CV related pages have popped up on Facebook.   Become a fan of your favorite bands:

Faith No More:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Faith-No-More/16942753414

Mr. Bungle:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mr-Bungle/16313132508

Mike Patton:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mike-Patton/7538616102

Ipecac Recordings:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ipecac-Recordings/5982142689

Fantômas:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fantomas/25005565812

Secret Chiefs 3:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Secret-Chiefs-3/38180335014

Dieselhed:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dieselhed/17435773262

Dengue Fever:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dengue-Fever/25531843272

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sleepytime-Gorilla-Museum/31670987384

Sorry I never posted this over here on CV until now…

I went to the Moonchild show at the Moore Theatre in downtown Seattle on Sunday, November 4th.  I’ve got a review on my blog and some video snippets (from my digital camera) on YouTube.

Direct links:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=29187805&blogID=326266544&Mytoken=48517425-5DBC-4272-8F1B9A0B61B842B740079341

Generic links (if the above are too long):
http://blog.myspace.com/bowlofedamame
(then scroll down to 11/6/07  entry)

http://www.youtube.com/ytsejam3325

~Dan

Editor’s Note: This was an old submission I failed to approve.  Please accept my apologies while I play catch up.

In-demand weird sound vocalizer Mike Patton and subdued weird sound synthesizer Christian Fennesz will kick off another European tour together tomorrow evening, February 27.

They have four dates together before splitting up for a few solo gigs. Patton’s headlining shows are all with Italy’s Zu, and Fennesz’s are mostly festival dates. Patton fans in Brussels should note that a scheduled gig at VK for March 5 has been cancelled. But the question remains: When are these two gonna show North America some love?

Patton has also been collaborating with Dan the Automator under the name Crudo. The pair will perform at the 2008 Sasquatch! festival, running May 24-26.

Patton & Fennesz:

02-27 Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
02-28 Sofia, Bulgaria - Universiada Hall
02-29 Warsaw, Poland - Proxima
03-01 Zaandam, Netherlands - De Kade

Patton:

03-02 Geneva, Switzerland - Usine *
03-03 Rome, Italy - Circolo Degli Artisti *
03-04 Turin, Italy - Ossigeno *
03-05 Brussels, Belgium - VK
03-06 Utrecht, Netherlands - Tivoli *
03-07 Verona, Italy - Interzona *
05-24-26 George, WA - The Gorge (Sasquatch!) #

* with Zu
# performing with Dan the Automator as Crudo

Source: Pitchfork

Editor’s Note: This was an old submission I failed to approve.  I realize these dates have all passed. Please accept my apologies while I play catch up.

Mike Patton is currently laying down vocals for a track to appear on Bär McKinnon’s newest project. The Melbourne based band called Umläut are currently working on a album touted for release later this year. The word on the street is that the track is mega catchy, combining Mike’s smooth vocals with Bär’s Looney Tunes inspired bent. Bär has been laying low the last couple of years, working on a whole bunch of tunes which are now ready to be heard. Umläut are starting to gig around Melbourne building to the release of the cd, for the second half of 2008.

www.myspace.com/umlautbarmckinnon

Editor’s Note: This was an old submission I failed to approve.  Please accept my apologies while I play catch up.

Q&A with Dan the Automator and Mike Patton, AKA Crudo

Editor’s Note: This was an old submission I failed to approve.  Please accept my apologies while I play catch up.

Yes, you read that right. Mike Patton will be appearing on Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse as reformed rocker Rikki Kix. The episode is set to air on Sunday, July 21st on Cartoon Network. Don’t miss it!

Alan Smithee left a comment on the last post that said:

The trailer for Perfect Place, and you can hear some of Mike’s Soundtrack.
http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/36/26336.php

This brings up an issue I see a lot. People post cool things they’ve found in the comments of completely unrelated articles. So unless you read through all the comments, you miss most of the “new” news that I haven’t either heard about or just not got around to posting.

I converted CV from a custom built web app to a standard blog to encourage a community so people could write their own stories and submit them. However, I can’t just leave it open for anyone to publish unmoderated due to the obvious spam that would soon take over the blog. Plus, honestly I just don’t have time anymore to check every submission, especially when WordPress doesn’t even notify me when I something to moderate. So I have been struggling with what to do with CV lately. Should I just kill it? Do people even really care anymore? The bands that CV was supposed to be about are long dead anyway.

But I was fortunate to grab a short domain name, so unless I get offered an ungodly amount of money, I have no plans of getting rid of it, so what to do with the cv.org web space? I could create a site for my canned vegetable collection, but that doesn’t seem all that interesting either.

The other day I had an idea. What about a setup like Digg? Allow people to post whatever they want, completely unmoderated, and then people vote on the stories to promote them or bury them if they are inaccurate or just plain crap. Plus, it would allow people to easily link to and promote their own sites. It would be take the burden off me and allow the CV community to control what they find cool and interesting. I think that would solve a lot of the problems and once again give CV a purpose. I’ve always wanted CV to be a community driven site and I think this may be the best solution.

So I think that’s what I’m going to do. In a few days, I will take this blog down (and archive it somewhere) and replace it with a community publishing system. Let’s see how that works. If it bombs, I can always fall back to my canned vegetables idea.

Update: I’ve decided against the community voting route. This site just doesn’t have enough traffic for that to really work. So I’m going to keep the blog going. I found some old stuff I thought was long deleted that used to be hosted here, so maybe I’ll get some of that back up here before long.

The DVD is due out on Ipecac on Nov 13th, per a recent Kaada emailing.

The trailer is located here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_67s1LNU_c

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvUj8pL6iC8

Photos: http://www.carlamusic.com/gallery/mikepatton