Artist: Flight of the Conchords
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Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Collection
Year: 2006
Tracks: 9
New Zealand's self-proclaimed "4th most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy ethnic music duet" got their lead off in Wellington. Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement (musician/funnyman and funnyman/musician, severally) started crafting their unique, two-man drollery mélange in 2002, spell the deuce of them were living together at college. Overcome by a dreaming, in which a V shaping of Gibson Flying Vs resembled a gaggle of Concorde airplanes, the band christened themselves Flight of the Conchords and began honing their represent in the local drollery and rock candy clubs about their town in the tardy '90s. By 2002, they could be launch playing such high profile gigs as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. When they returned to the fest in 2003, they were nominative for the Perrier Award, therefore making them "the near award-winning 4th nearly popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo in New Zealand." Between those gigs, Flight of the Conchords self-released the record album Folk the World and, by 2005, was the bailiwick of a six-part BBC Radio 2 air series -- a largely jury-rigged function in the nervure of Spinal Tap and Tenacious D. Also in 2005, the group landed a billet on HBO's Friday night series 1 Night Stand. In 2006, Clement was featured in a series of humourous commercials for the U.S.-based Outback Steakhouse restaurant chain, and later that class, the band penned a share with U.S. indie imprint Sub Pop. The label released the half-studio, half-live EP The Distant Future a year afterward.
Jerry Alfred and The Medicine Beat
