sleepytime gorilla museum

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is many things. It is, first and foremost, no longer. When it last was at all, both first and foremost it was a deranged musical collective as dedicated to metal and rock as it was to modern classical and experimental music.

It was also a family, a traveling circus, a soothsayer, a call to arms, a blind man standing naked in the middle of a bridge, a Saturnalian celebration, and yes… a Museum. SGM are collectively makers of instruments, barkers and bakers, finders and fixers, drawers and snappers, and brave putters-together of thought and theory into great big orderly messes of sound and fury.
Built on a circuitous and bewildering mythology, SGM has released 3 studio records: *Grand Opening and Closing* (The End, 2001), *Of Natural History* (Mimicry, 2004) and *In Glorious Times* (The End, 2007). The fourth and final record, Of the Last Human Being, will be released at some indiscernible date in the future, followed by a vaguely educational film about The Last Human Being, and a live concert DVD. Though the band is officially dead and gone, they are not entirely opposed to the idea of posthumous activity.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is:

MATTHIAS BOSSI – DRUMS, MARIMBA, MELODICA AND VOICE
NILS FRYKDAHL – GUITARS, FLUTES, AND VOICE
CARLA KIHLSTEDT – ELECTRIC VIOLIN, VOICE AND PERCUSSION GUITAR
MICHAEL MELLENDER – PERCUSSION, GUITAR, TRUMPET, GLOCKENSPIEL, VALHALLA, VATICAN, ELECTRIC PANCREAS, LEVER, AND VOICE
MOE! STAIANO – ALL MANNER OF UNNAMABLE PERCUSSION
DAN RATHBUN – BASS, SLEDGEHAMMER DULCIMER, PEDAL-ACTION WIGGLER, COCKROACH, AND VOICE