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"it's not hard to be intrigued by this young avant-garde band... freakish and eerie music... ghostly, antique sounds..."
- Sarah Quelland, Metro Silicon Valley
"Corpus Callosum surely roars and raises a beautiful hell... unique, creative and intellectual... confronts current consciousness around music-making and performing."
- Maria Pugnetti, JunctionArt.org
"like something you'd hear if you walked into a ghost town saloon and the instruments were playing themselves along with a giant singing marionette... these music-makers are both behind and ahead of their time."
- Joe Younglove, KZUM, Lincoln, NE
Corpus Callosum is an effort to create dynamic, uncompromised music, both heady and theatrical, using simple, do-it-yourself means. The band credits influence from american roots music, early industrial & noise, and western classical, blending the musics of Neutral Milk Hotel, The Velvet Underground, Tom Waits and Einsturzende Neubauten, among others.
The musicians, Avery Burke, Dax Tran-Caffee, Stevie Hryciw and Zach Michels, compose songs by combining the traditional instruments of accordion, banjo and guitar, with more obscure instruments like the singing saw, theremin, wash bucket bass and glass goblets, as well as common objects such as pots and pans, pickaxes, children's toys, a kitchen blender and sheet metal.
Corpus Callosum has shared stages with such notable bands as The Mountain Goats, Xiu Xiu, Deerhoof and Jason Webley. They have been hosted by radio stations KSCU Santa Clara, KKUP Cupertino, KFJC Los Altos Hills and KDVS Davis.
"Strange Fruit," the first album, was self-published in the winter of 2003. Three live performances have since been recorded and released. The six-track EP, "Machine Under Its Own Spell," self-released in May 2005, received national review and airplay, including #1 on the charts of KUOI, Moscow, ID (8/8 and 8/22/05) and #2 on the charts of WNUR, Chicago, IL (8/23/05). The band currently tours their theatrical music performances around the San Francisco Bay area, while seeking a distributor for their recordings.
Please contact:
Dax Tran-Caffee
bustedpuppet@gmail.com
Photos/Video from live performances.
Sample Music from studio/live releases.
The two hemispheres of the brain are connected by a bundle of commissural nerve fibers called the corpus callosum. When severed or absent the halves of the brain can only communicate with each other through external sources. A person with a commissurotomy might identify an object with her left hand, but be unable to speak the name of it, then just as easily write the name with her left hand, but not know what she has written without first having seen it with her eyes, or felt the object with her right hand. In all other respects, this person is perfectly functional, unidentifiable as abnormal.
The corpus callosum was once thought to be the site of the human soul. cor.pus cal.lo.sum (kor' pes kelo' sem), Mod. L., lit., callous body.
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