Artist description TWHI, as led by musical director and principal pianist, Dr. Nicodemus Strangelove) plays stride tunes from the early half of the last century while composing a variety of "new" standards in the stride/traditional idiom. He is joined, at times, by postmodernistic rockmonger (and cofounder) Larry London; a prodigious guitar talent and underground rock music god of the Las Vegas cafe scene.

Music Style Stride Piano, Dixieland Jazz, Straight Ahead Jazz & Bop, underground rock (when Larry London is around)

Musical Influences Louis Armstrong, Tom Waits, Jeff Barnhart, Bob Scobey, Modest Mouse, Keith Jarret, Preservation Hall, They Might Be Giants, Firehouse Five Plus Two, various dead stride pianists

Similar Artists Firehouse Five Plus Two, Louis Armstrong, David Frishberg, Modest Mouse

Artist History Nicodemus Strangelove has been playing stride piano in the ragtime cafe of yesterday for around six years now. He's had several house gigs, playing three days a week in local cafe's and various other houses of poor reputation and low moral fiber, but, of late, has shifted more towards composition/arranging. Various succeses include: two months playing Cafe Copioh as house pianist (turning the cocktail hour into an insane, stride menagerie of maudlin burlesque dreams), composed the original music for Poona The Fuckdog(which toured to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) with cohort and known subversive Larry London, recorded and created his first CD (a Christmas album titled “Stride For Lunatics” which had nothing to do with Christmas), and is now enjoying his second semester on loan to CCSN’s Jazz Combo (Dr. Tom Ferguson conducting.) He records and plays out of his home in Las Vegas, NV, and a collection of his poetry will be published shortly after the New Year by Searle Publishing in the United Kingdom. Oh, and did I mention that I’m 20 years old, and just slightly insane?

Group Members Nicodemus Strangelove, Larry London, and joined atvarious times by others.

Instruments Piano and guitar

Albums A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes Spoken Word CD

Press Reviews "Imagine hot Las Vegas nights strung out on speed while reading Charles Bukowski and listening to Tom Waits' growling chord and there you have the poetry of Sin City native Flynn Barkan." -Gigi Genereaux, Las Vegas City Life

Location Las Vegas, NV - USA

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