Who or what is Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra?
It is music, theatre, installation, film, performance art, costume party, light show, cultural train wreck, dance, ritual (real and fake).playtime
The music is traditional, contemporary, post-modern, ancient, naive, classical, situationist, the right notes with the wrong instruments, pentatonic, microtonal, harmonious, out of tune, chromatic, free, rigidly structured, coherent, upside down.
Theatre influenced by beijing opera, bauhaus, dada, kabuki, high school play, mummers, butoh, silent films, vaudeville, moliere, day of the dead, industrial, parajanov, mystery plays, theatre of the absurd.
THE PLAYERS
Founder Member, Clarinet, Ukulele, Whistle,
Harmonium, Percussion. Painter, Actor,
Decors, Lights, Swallowtail Coat, Baklava.
Founder Member, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet,
Suona, Swanee Whistle, Centrifuge, Devices
and Paraphernalia, Bavarian Welding Mask,
Dancing.
Violin, Percussion, Extra-Terrestialism,
Box Harp, Spoons, Social Journalism,
Cymbals, Scissors, Flashlight.
Founder Member, Cello, Bouzouki, Pipa,
Saz, Theremin, Glass Harp, Percussion,
Fake Beard, Arranger, Composer, Mixer.
Mandolin, Singing Saw, Qanun, Accordion,
Harmonium, Egg, Voice, Green Tea,
Marine Biology, Extra Leg.
Harmonium, Walking Machine,
Abstract Expressionism,Mannequin,
Random Objects, Japanese Radio.
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Accordion, Xylophone, Music Box,
Piano Harp, Sound and Light, Fire,
Slow Motion, Multiple Screens,Iron Shoes.
Big Drum, Piano Harp, Mbira, Cymbals,
Woodblock, Whistle, Slow Dancing,
Fake Japanese Percussion.
Banjo, Cello, Cavaquinho, Band-Aid,
Water Organ, Aluminium Suit,
Instrument Builder, Faded Aristocrat.
Arabic Rap, Essa-Underground,
Dark Charisma, Multiple Voices, High Jinx,
Family Values, Tomatoes and Bananas.
Unplayable Concertina, Composer,
Guide, Mental Chess, Piano, Football,
Web Design, Nickel Harp.
Violin, Chorus, Neurologist,
Scientific Approach, Technical Expertise,
Measurements, Bloody Apron.
Singing, Documentation, Photography,
Films, Webcams, Siesta, Roadtrips,
Fado, Border Crossings
Contrabass, Master of Drones,
Mayan Symbolism, Shamanic Trance,
Dogs, Suspicious Automobiles.
Accordion, Xylophone, Cowboy Hat,
Harmonium, Short Order Chef,
TexMex Effex
Violin, Xylophone, Typing,
Alien Abductee, Music Box,
Political Studies
Transverse Flute, Piccolo, Whistle, Sign Language, Japanese Harp, Bowler Hat,
Pigeon Spanish, Bicycle Repairs
Banjo, Contrabass, Bakfiets, Guitar, Musical Theories, Percussion,
Plastic Tubes, Telephone
Flute , Radio, Percussion, Invisible Clarinet, Egg,
Spontaneous Costumes,
After Dinner Speaking, Technical Department
Contrabass, Baglama, Water Organ, Coffee Grinder
Toni Casablanca
Cello, Newspaper, Nostalgia, Tonal Precision,
Instrument Repair
I accidentally discoverd this amazing group and tried to scour the internet for more information. This site is awsome and definately serves a need. thank you
thanks.
there was an official Forgotten Fish Memory website, but it lapsed. Now someone took the domain name and is actually using it to sell fish!
Border-less arty bunch of beautiful groundbreakers, mindbogglers, muse-icians! Hagolian hi Ă°on!
thanks
the mind boggles
This is the kind of theater of my dreams. I just put on a theatrical dance piece Prima Spira that is very much a smorgasbord of aesthetic like you guys…seriously enamored! Wherever you guys are let’s start a new project or let me apprentice….! It doesn’t matter where, I can travel!
thank you for your manifestations of brilliance, lustre, and light in murky times indeed!
much much love and good energy your way…!
Rebecca
rebeccaantsis@gmail.com
femeia.vulcan@gmail.com
Furthermore, the anonymous PArisian grafitti…live without dead time has been my credo for the past year and when I saw the title of your blog I almost gasped at the synchronicity! Incredible! Incredible! I really want to collaborate with you guys…I have never seen an artistic group so close to what inhabits my imagination!!!
U R doin’ it rite.
OSM
Thanks. I’ve had a quick look at your channel on youtube. It looks very creative. I will investigate further!
Have a quick Scan of my blog: The Inexplicable World Of OutaSpaceMan while your at it.
During my childhood I would visit my Auntie Irene in Hipperholme.
She would let me wear the lampshade from the standard lamp so I could be an Emperor.
Astral Gonad’s headgear reminded me of that long-ago empire
OSM
I played you once in my Radio in Egypt, it was one of the weirdest things they’ve ever heard, and I do play a lot of weird things. and I never tell anyone about you, I fuckin love your anonymity, my archive is so tight, I use countries and genres to label my music. you are not in a country nor in a genre.
thanks a lot
what did you play?
how did you find forgotten fish?
you know what they say, if you want to reach the fruit youve got to go out on a limb
makmed
”The music is different here, the vibrations are different. Not like planet earth”.. I found out first about Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra during a very intimate record fair in Brussels. I bought the record Our Tin Tribe, after I skipped on the songs on a portable record. It was something that I have never heard before. Weird, philosophical, melancholic, romantic, misterious. Though I could feel a wide influence from all over the world, asian and european.
thank you for the music!
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Bravo!
It’s now 2023…is anyone still there?
If so, what are you doing?