Artist description Ignore the list of similar artists below. We were just trying to trick your search engines... An 11-piece chamber orchestra that plays colorful pop songs with 20'th century harmony, 19th century orchestration and 21'st century brains and experience. But they don't lord it over you. W.A.C.O. tries to slip the banality of modern music into the artful banality of pop. Maybe we shouldn't say anything. We'd rather you listened to the music as if you didn't even know it was an orchestra. We're stealth classical punk.

Music Style Modern Classical Pop Experimental Orchestra Music

Musical Influences The Fall, Messiaen, John Cale, Kathy Acker, Solid Eye

Similar Artists Can, "Scratch" Perry, Berg, Cave, Rota, F. Lips, Haffler, Slayer, 45 Grave, T. Gristle, Cale, LaMonte Young, Neil Young, Young Marble Giants, Mingus, Prokofiev, Joy Division, Neubauten, Weill, Torme

Artist History Formed about five years ago from the ashes of the Wild Stares. Have toured some over the last two years. Have released three CDs.

Group Members Steve Gregoropoulos, vocal & piano; Elizabeth Herndon, flute & trombone; Jennifer Tefft, flute & piccolo; Rebecca Lynn, violin; Heather Lockie, viola; Dave Travis, 'cello; Rebekah Greely, oboe; Elana Scherr, Bassoon; Pablo Garcia, bass; Justin Burrill, guitar; Kyle C. Kyle, drums. Sometimes some other people.

Instruments piano, guitar, bass, drums, flute, piccolo, trombone, violin, viola, 'cello

Albums Darling Clementine; Wig Rodeo; Sylvania; A Game of Cards

Press Reviews "If our generation had a vaudeville, W.A.C.O. would be the headliners every night" - Alternative Presss"If you'd told me that in 1999, someone would make an orchestral rock disc that rivaled Forever Changes or Pleasures of the Harbor, I'd have had you commited. . . the first time since Beck's Odelay that someone from LA has captured the sounds of the city" - San Francisco Bay Guardian"I want W.A.C.O. to play at my funeral" - Willamette Week

Additional Info Played the scores to the films Naked Jane and The Heroine of Hell (as well as Wig Rodeo)

Location Los Angeles, CA - USA

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