Another day, another Patton project.
Less than one week after the release of the self-titled Nevermen release, Ipecac have announced that Patton will return on 1 April with is Patton/Kaada project. Patton will again team up with Norwegian composer John Kaada for their first collaborative album in 12 years, Bacteria Cult.
“Working with John Kaada on this latest release was an honor and pure pleasure,” Mike Patton says in a press release. “His compositions have always resonated deeply with me and his orchestral arrangements for this project are harmonically dense and delicious! Each individual piece is so well constructed and inventively assembled that my vocal passages practically sang themselves. I’m hoping very much that we can seduce some eardrums and welcome listeners into this lush sonic ‘otherworld.’”
Bacteria Cult track list:
1. Red Rainbow
2. Black Albino
3. Peste Bubonica
4. Papillon
5. Dispossession
6. A Burnt Out Case
7. Imodium
8. Fountain Gasoline
Patton sings Bowie
Well sort of. Mike Patton is also providing backing vocals for Mark Kozelek’s Mark Kozelek Sings Favorites project. The record is out through Caldo Verde Records on 27 May.
And you can hearing Mike’s background vox on David Bowie cover Win now:
Porn
Bill Gould is also making the most of this FNM hiatus and he’s teaming up again with Faith No More manager Tim Moss for Moss’s Porn project.
Bill joins Tim and Dale Crover (ex-Melvins) for a one-off gig in San Francisco on 6 February.
The latest Porn post states:
“For this San Francisco show, Moss will be uniting Bill Gould Faith No More and Dale Crover (the) Melvins, two musicians who have both toured with Porn in different lineups. This will be the first time they play together. Porn will be performing a special soundtrack of music created just for this show.”
BBC 6 Music Cares a Lot
Faith No More made the news in the UK this morning when BBC 6 Music kicked off their Breakfast Show with We Care a Lot. The song presaged BBC radio 2 light entertainment presenter Jeremy Vine briefly stepping in to present the 6 Music show in the absence of ill regular presenter Shaun Keaveney.
The Independent reported:
BBC 6 Music listeners were left confused on Wednesday morning when Jeremy Vine opened the Breakfast Show in place of usual presenter Shaun Keaveny.
“Well, good morning and welcome to 6 Music Breakfast. [Keaveny] is off today, it’s a bit of a sniffle and a snuffle, so the brave little soldier is tucked up in bed,” Vine told listeners.
“They called me and they said ‘Can you come in because Sean wants you to sit in the golden chair?’ I’m so proud.”
The presenter then proceeded to “rock this joint” by kickstarting the day’s music with a track from American band Faith No More.
You can listen to the start of the show including We Care a Lot here
Luna Invictus
Via our friends at FNM4ever a great multicam video of Faith No More’s 2015 show in Luna Park, Argentina.
If more FNM new material won’t happen by early 2017, I hope they would at least release a live album (or a few from each era) along with the WCAL reissue in the meantime. But finishing the other 15-20 songs that are supposedly almost done would be better!
The thing is, without his side projects Patton probably wouldn’t want to do FNM anymore. He wanted to leave in 1998 to do other things, then part of the reason the band got back together was *because* of all that time apart. It’s clear he needs to work as much as possible – but tie him to one band for years at his age and he’d possibly jump ship. The more varied work he squeezes in the better. I don’t have to listen to it all, but I genuinely think it increases the chances of him going back to FNM sooner rather than later.
Basically, things have got to happen at their own pace. In the meantime, another Fantomas album, please! Delirium Cordia style.
Worried that the pile up of Patton projects decreases the likely hood of another FNM album. Tomahawk would be incredible!!!!! It’s happening, according to Duane Denison. Can’t wait!!!
More Patton side projects? Count me out. He needs to stick to FNM. Or Bungle. But that’s it. Please, no more John Zorn. Their collaborations are the worst. More FNM please.
I think I’m in the minority, but I wasn’t all that impressed / moved by Romances. I like some of Kaada’s other stuff though, but not crazy about it. New Dubioza kolektiv is out now, ‘Hey Libertad’ is their best song yet. Still loving Tetema, and I definitely like Nevermen. I’m hoping for new Imperial Teen and Tomahawk in the next year and a half…Tomahawk seems likely while I had heard that Roddy was working with IT some recently. Patton mentioned “a couple films” this year…can’t wait for that, his film work has been my favorite stuff he’s done outside of FNM and I’m glad I got to tell him so in Detroit. I wish Bill’s soundtrack to “The Sequential Art” would get a release, the youtube sample clip sounds really good. I’m always hoping Chuck can get the funds to get his next album done and out. Then of course…I’m really excited about WCAL reissue…wish we knew a date. And for the love of god…as Live at Brixton turns 25 years old…FNM is way overdue for another official live release or 5!!!!! Someone please convine them to take more of my money!!!!