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The hop-frog kollectiv itself is a mix of over twenty participants who focus on experimental spoken word, art & music. In only two years of existence, the core members of the kollectiv have performed with Not Breathing, DJ Cheb I Sabbah, David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, etc.), Steve Mackay and The Radon Ensemble (The Stooges, Violent Femmes) & Dame Darcy (Meatcake) under the names hop-frog's drum jester devotional and The Master Musician's of hop-frog.
Hop-frog have not only toured with Backworld (feat. Joe Budenholzer of Current 93, Foetus, etc.) and Sorrow (featuring Rose McDowall of Strawberry Switchblade, Spell, Current 93, Death In June and Coil) on two separate occasions but members of hop-frog have played in both of these projects for the duration of the tours.
The live performances are especially intriguing featuring heavily effected traditional western instruments such as clarinet, violin, guitar, drums, analog and bass fused with eastern, tribal, toy and non-traditional instruments such as the saz, toy & real accordions, circuit bent keyboards, snake charmer flutes, christmas tree bells, the Dhol, broken cymbals and even a kitchen sink, hop-frog have performed on three occasions in Paris, France, all over the western U.S., and have an intensive European tour scheduled for May, 2005.
Discography:
URCK2016
HOP-FROG’S
FATWA “The Silk Road” CD
URCK2023 part 4 of "the hop-frog kollectiv live cdr series" (limited
to 18)
hop-frog’s drum jester devotional - Gogotagharaytee Live
SOUNDWALK CD & Book - Compilation www.soundwalk.org
N.O.E. # 5 - hop-frog's drum jester devotional/TZII 7" (night on earth)
URCK2020 - part 1 of "the hop-frog kollectiv live cdr series" (limited
to 25 per part)
PHAUL - Music for Molasses
URCK2021 - part 2 of "the hop-frog kollectiv live cdr series" (limited
to 25 per part)
REFRIGERATOR MOTHERS - "bedding down the revolution with a mouth full
of shit...Part 1"
URCK2022 - part 3 of "the hop-frog kollectiv live cdr series" (limited
to 25 per part)THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF HOP-FROG - untitled as of yet
URCK2024 - hop-frog: hop-frog kollectiv video release #1
URCK2017 – hop-frog’s drum jester devotional – “chants
de sewage” – (release date: February 2005)
URCK2018- The Master Musicians of hop-frog (studio album release date Summer
2005”
URCK2019 – Refrigerator Mothers – A Sufi Pop Dream (release date:
Summer 2005)
URCK2025 – hop-frog’s drum jester devotional: Bets Ov, Volumes 1 & 2
(release date: Fall, 2005)
About The SIlk Road by Hop-Frog's Fatwa CD :
The Silk Road is the first project from the musical collective hop-frog. This work was recorded under the name hop-frog’s fatwa, a project intended as a guerilla action against the upbeat, positive, and highly overproduced “World Music” of late, yet retaining the members’ passion for musical traditions of various cultures. The album is set in an alternate near-future in which the characters find themselves on an endless journey along an ancient silk trade route. Many obstacles and states of mind are experienced, including encounters with countless mutant variants of the next generations of “smart” mines and their victims. It is a barren wasteland in the East where artists deemed “decadent” are banished to, able to survive by taking jobs such as clearing minefields by hand. This is a metaphor for the treatment of artists in a society dominated by corporate totalitarianism, as well as cultural blandness and unchecked materialism. It is also ironic since artists have been forced to flee from the same region by oppressive forces in recent times. The journey along the Silk Road is an examination of the creative process. The characters are finally able to see the world with pharmaceutical-free clarity, and are able to endure the creative process with all its explosive pitfalls and rewards.
