Artist description Cobra Child and Garden Gnome

Music Style Colorful steam. Alt rock tripping on worldbeat. Americanized Britrock and electronica with African drums, Brazillian grooves, Andean spirit, Russian poetics and Thai fun under Asiatic guitars and vocals.

Musical Influences Thai food. Japanese food. Chinese food. Indian food. Brazillian food. Mexican food. Fast food.

Similar Artists Allen Iverson, Vince Carter, Kobe, Bill Walton, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Thai Market

Artist History After meeting at a party above Bangkok slums in 1997, Zac Smakt! joined Monks on Fire members Helium, Captain Quirk, and Bloody Rich Baker for a jam at Metal Heart Studio. A year later, Smakt! and Helium met The Computer in Zac's basement, where all three began recording the CD "Cobra Children". Zac Smakt! won a national guitar contest at 16, gigged around Oregon, and produced Thai alt rock hero Audi in Bangkok. He is currently pictured on millions of Close-Up toothpaste boxes across Asia. Helium has heliosmakt with Blankey Jet City in Japan, Crystal Butterfly in China, Emperor in Burma, and Rang Rockestra in Thailand. Reported on wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, East Timor for AP and others. Played the richest man in South America in Thai on TV series "Amnaat" (Authority). The Computer is an overclocked Celeron 450. It has worked with Emagic Logic Audio and Sonic Foundry music software for several years, and has been proven to be a tireless and extremely accurate drummer. It first met Smakt! and Helium in its home of Eugene, Oregon, USA. Plays major songwriting role and doubles as a Quake III server.

Group Members -Helium: lead vox...guitars...drum programs...photos...discovery of the cobra chord...aura shaping...universal linkage... -Zac Smakt!: lead guitars...computer programming...vocals...bass...drum programs...three-pointers...mind echo machine... -The Computer

Instruments -Indian sitar, Japanese shamisen, Chinese erhu, Thai drums and winds, all played on guitar

Albums -The Cobra Children

Press Reviews -Internationally condemned former AP reporter Christopher Johnson says "Y'all've been heliosmakt!".

Location Eugene, Oregon - USA

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