Artist description Neo-rock-tronic instrumental compositions with a jazzy feel. Combines driving bass lines, synthesizers, synthesized brass and woodwinds, guitar and drums into sometimes profound and always ear-opening aural colors, textures, and canvases.

Music Style Rock with Prog and Jazz feel

Musical Influences Jethro Tull, ELP, Early Chicago, Frank Zappa

Similar Artists Jethro Tull, ELP, Chicago, Frank Zappa

Artist History Zombo Mawa was born Fred Fucillini in 1961, in the town of No Interest, Louisiana, USA. I use the word “born” loosely, as Fred was actually the spawn of a series of secret cloning experiments performed by the CIA, intended to produce humans capable of inter-breeding with captive aliens. Something went horribly wrong with Fred’s test tubes. Fred was born (decanted) with a brain the size of a peanut, but that wasn’t much of a handicap, because he had testicles the size of basketballs which were filled with neural matter and which provided mental capacity beyond that of most of the rest of humanity. Fred escaped from the CIA laboratory and fled to Zimbabwe. He took up with a tribe of vampire bat worshippers there and had his name legally changed to Fred Zombo Mawa. He married a native tribeswoman and had five children, but discovered an awful truth. All of his children were born without pinkie fingers, the tragic consequence of the genetic tinkering performed on him during cloning. This particular Zimbabwean tribe was very superstitious, particularly when it came to pinkie fingers. All of his children were sold on the slave market, his wife was stoned, and Fred was sentenced to death as a sorcerer. He was to be drawn and quartered, and then flung by a catapult into the Piltdown Pit, a 1000 foot deep hole in the ground which had never been explored. Before this could happen, a herd of wild Pygmy Bonobos invaded the village, causing Fred’s persecutors to flee. In gratitude, Fred promised the apes that he would teach them how to play music. This was quite a bold move, since Fred had never played a musical instrument in his life. However, the Bonobos seemed insistent and Fred was never one to argue. He started out teaching them the Kazoo. He picked out the brightest students and graduated them to the Jews Harp. The brightest of those went on to the Tambourine, and then the Wax Paper Comb, and finally the best students of all went on to the king of all jungle instruments, the Sound Blaster Sound Card with Midi Sequencer. Thus was born the Million Monkeys Music Machine. This collaboration would continue for many years. At this point, he dropped the moniker “Fred” and just went by Zombo Mawa. He and the Million Monkey Music Machine pioneered the concept of random auralia, refining the production of white noise, pink noise, and, in later years, green and purple noise. He developed the art of noise to a fine pitch, with many subtleties and nuances. Zombo Mawa volunteered on the first manned expedition to Mars, and was accepted, mainly because he had the ten million dollar admission fee and because no one else wanted to go. The expedition took 12 months there, and 12 months back. When he got there, he discovered someone had forgotten to pack his space boots, and so he was confined to the space ship while robots explored the surface When he returned, he spent many years demanding his money back from the bankrupt U.S. government. Needless to say, he never saw a penny of refund. This experience inspired Zombo Mawa in his first solo collection, Two Years in a Tin Can. Now destitute, he signed on to the Starship Troopers, a mercenary band of insect haters. He became a hermit and avid cockroach stomper. He roamed the solar system, seeking out any and all six legged life forms. Little is knownof this phase of his life, only that it ended when he encountered his first Robot God on Pluto and was taken prisoner. The Robot Gods had arrived from their planet of origin ten thousand light years away, seeking to destroy all Carbon Based Life Forms and to wrest from them the secret of sexual reproduction. The Robot Wars launched a war with all Carbon Based Life Forms. They subjected their prisoners to gruesome experiments, seeking to discover how to fertilize their little metal eggs with their plastic sperms. They never fully succeeded; the best they could do is produce mentally inferior microwave ovens. Zombo Mawa was a prisoner of war for many years during the war of the Robot Gods. He single-handedly broke the Robot Code, resulting in the stunning victory of the League of Carbon Based Life Forms. He ingeniously smuggled his discoveries out of his prison, disguised as music of questionable quality. Little did the Robots know that their secret codes were disguised within those CDs , modulated into a high frequency carrier hiding behind the audio. He was awarded the "Order of the Pink Canary" by the grateful L.C.B.L.F. Sadly, Zombo Mawa is no longer with us. While performing his last work, the "Cockroach Chanticle for Kazoo in B flat", he was tragically cut down in a collision with a bus full of Spiny Echidnas driven by a crazed pygmy bonobo. The bonobo, a sour chap who went by the name of Foofus, had been an original member of the Million Monkeys Music Machine. However, lacking even the talent to handle the Kazoo, Foofus had been demoted to the lowest rank in the organization, that of bass guitarist. This so enraged the bonobo that he decided to assassinate the bandleader in the most grisly manner possible. Foofus therefore imported a load of Spiny Echidnas from New Zealand to assist him in his dastardly deed. Zombo Mawa was giving a charity performance at the site of the original Woodstock. The bus came up over the hill and plowed through the audience and onto the stage. At this point it unleashed its deadly cargo. Impaled by Echidna quills and mortally wounded, Zombo Mawa nevertheless finished his performance, and was halfway through the encore when he succumbed. Life Magazine immortalized Zombo Mawa when it printed its famous cover photograph of Zombo Mawa, covered in dead Echidnas, plucking out his last notes on his battered K-Mart Casio Keyboard.

Group Members Zombo Mawa - computer and keyboards.

Instruments Computer, SBLive sound card, Casio Keyboard.

Location Cary, NC - USA

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