Artist description Anandasong rocks like good surgery. And may I introduce to you this evening's medical staff: Tyrone Thompson, Rick Trigueros, and David Wessner. Now put that scalpel down. Anandasong is that buzz in your ears whilst you replace a sparkplug. Anandasong is the twitch in a marathon runner's left eyebrow. Anandasong is organic yogurt seasoned with gunpowder. The name Anandasong combines the Sanskrit word 'Ananda' (meaning "undisciplined milk horse," "a simple children's puzzle game," and the imperative form "remove your coal-black fingers from my daughter's gums") and the English word 'Song' (meaning song.) Imagine The Police eating Helmet like boiled chicken. Imagine Helmet marinated in Simon and Garfunkel extract. Imagine the Police wiping their greasy faces with Stravinsky napkins.

Artist History Anandasong formed in Los Angeles, California in December of 2000, but was originally a two-man musical experiment called Aging Coffee, an act consisting of Thompson on grand piano (filled with swimming salmon) and Wessner on a lavaliere microphone taped to the nostrils of an asthmatic Israeli girl. Though the public adored each of Aging Coffee's twenty-eight consecutive live performances, word got 'round to PETA that the salmon were not being provided ample dressing room space. After a massive raid by the Environmental Protection Agency landed Thompson and Wessner in jail and $18,000 in debt, Aging Coffee became Anandasong – the vehicle by which Thompson and Wessner would sell out. After stealing Trigueros from the ZZ Top cover band Gimme All Your Dumpling, Anandasong began writing material. They have since independently recorded a full-length album titled "A Fortunate Fall" and are playing throughout Los Angeles.

Group Members Tyrone Thompson plays bass and effects. He was a world-toured nose-harp prodigy by the age of six. Thompson went on to master the kazoo, the bongo, the CD player and the shoestring. He earned a Ph.D. in Theoretical Stereo Anthropology from the University of Arizona at the age of 19, the same year he broke his hand. He is a globally adored musician, having played tack piano on They Might Be Giants' 1992 tour, and anti-chromatic German swish horn on all five albums by Young Black Teenagers. Rick Trigueros plays drums and cymbals. He grew up as an indentured servant in the coca fields of El Salvador and used his occasional five-minute breaks to study the djembe. When he was fifteen, his parents arranged for coyotes to smuggle him northward and Trigueros later found himself helpless on the streets of San Diego. He played percussion and later drum kit in bat mitzvah band after bat mitzvah band until he got his big break: producer Mutt Lang asked Trigueros to secretly play drums on all of Def Leopard's post-amputation albums. David Wessner sings and plays guitar. He was born in Dublin and lived there until he was seven. In America he studied under Shepard Steven, writer and arranger of the Carpenter's biggest hits. Wessner went on to mastermind Sunny Day Real Estate's acclaimed "Yellow" album and was later the musical director for the off-Broadway production of Johannes Kepler's third law of planetary motion. He is a frequent recycler and deaf in one ear.

Press Reviews In February 2001, Dr. Anthony O'Regen raved over Anandasong in the New England Journal of Medicine: "Of all the bands I've ever seen, this is among the most recent of them. These gentlemen deserve every ounce of due process and equal protection under the law that they can get." "If the Autobiography of Malcolm X is to be the standard by which we measure all other Malcolm X autobiographies..." -George Steiner, Los Angeles Times Book review. "This record is pure recorded music." -Sasha Olam Allah, New Times. "I mean, I gotta nice chest." -Gerald Bag, Cleveland High School Newspaper Editorials.

Location North Hollywood, CA - USA

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