Artist description The Bachs of Dirt play music that is 100% improvised. We simply turn on a tape recorder and start playing. These songs were culled from more than 50 hours of recorded material.

Music Style Improvised music and noise

Musical Influences Fripp/Eno, The Residents, Negativland, Fred Frith, Sun Ra, Indian classical music, Pere Ubu, Philip Glass, Weird Al Yanlovick, The Beatles, thousands more...

Similar Artists Sounds like Fred Frith and Claude Debussy jamming in Sun Ra's tool shed.

Artist History The Bachs of Dirt began playing together in October, 1998. The naeighbors have been scared and confused ever since.

Group Members "Bad Hair" Dave Reihs: Keyboards, percussion, home-made beer"Beelzezebob" Parker: Guitar, keyboards, vocal cords, cynicism; The Right Reverend Member: spiritual guidance, misguided spirituality.

Instruments Dave: Kurzweil K2500 synth, Roland and Kat drum pads. Bob: G&L electric guitar, E-bow, Kurzweil K2000 synth, Sequential Circuits Pro-1 synth. Dave also used a Korg DW-8000 in the early days, but that's no longer necessary.

Albums So Mote It Be

Location Portland, Oregon - USA

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