Parkinson fan PAUL rejoicing upon receipt of his Parkinson CD!!! Join him in auditory bliss:
Professor Parkinson and the Shakey Shakes started off as a jokey sort of name for me, when I first produced and played with the Miami based Mock & Roll Band, The BJ Experience.
It began to evolve from there, until finally I decided to release something in the guise of Professor Parkinson. That release was "Hail, Seizure!!!".
After receiving favorable reviews from fans, friends, magazines and other forms of media alike, I sort of felt more at ease with my strange brand of "Bungle meets Dream Theater meets Secret Chiefs meets Sikth meets Pat Metheny" style
So, after much debate, I decided to make the Parkinson concept a trilogy
Hail Seizure!!! was the attention getter Heavy, disharmonic, weird, jarring and warping to the ear and mind A bit abrasive for most to handle.
The next effort I am working on (which you can hear samples of on here already) is "Seizure Salad!!!", something that would be akin to dinner music in the same realm that the first CD's music would be acceptable in I am certainly showing off more of my jazz/funk/world/non heavy influences while still maintaining the spirit of Zappa, and some jazz and funk luminaries, to many to mention. I hope it comes off. I have also decided onthis cd to expand the orchestration from mostly guitar/bass/drums/synth to include many more textures. tuba, sax, trumpet, cello, violin, erhu, cumbus, congas and other percussion, more organic keys (piano, rhodes, hammond, etc.)
Should be interesting
The third part of the trilogy shall be revealed in time But I think that as jarring as it was for people who first heard my music, or the first time they heard the new material versus the initial cd's music. the third will jar them all the more.
One can only hope.
