Bushwacked indie music

NEWS & REVIEWS

Watch for "BUSHWACKED" on the new INDEPENDENT FILM CHANNEL show
" IFC'S MEDIA LAB SHORTS UPLOADED"

Air dates & times will be:

Monday, November 6th, 8:30 PM Eastern

Tuesday, November 7th, 12:35 AM Eastern

Thursday, November 9th, 7:45 AM Eastern

LISTEN FOR "BUSHWACKED" ON THE DR. DEMENTO SHOW
MAY 13th & 14th, 2006 - check your local listings

EARBUZZ REVIEW of the CD "BUSHWACKED"

April 2006

"I know that human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully" - so starts the CD, "Bushwacked" by Arizona artist, Tempemonon. The music is rock/pop/alternative for all the tracks except the opening title track, 'Bushwacked'. This tune includes dozens of sound bytes from President Bush - one of the most inarticulate public speakers we've seen as leader of the free world. Tempemonon sets the quotes to a synth groove and could be a dance floor favorite if the low end pumps continuously. Track 2, "Camptown Girls", has a TMBG meets the Ramones feel to it wrapped up in a poppy progressive tune. "Texas Jack", track 7, uses a dynamic device that has the tune starting and stopping. The direct to board guitar distortion adds a unique quality to the song - and the vocals are processed with a matching bull horn track. The band saves the best tunes for last, as track 8 and 10 turn out to be our favorites - 'Lay the Whiskey Down' and 'Time Will Pass Us By'. The latter of which takes a piano and organ sound with a terrific vocal performance that takes advantage of the lead vocalist's compelling tone and easy falsetto movement. The tune is really a fine song - with solid melody and lyric ... good stuff. EARBUZZ.COM

TEMPEMONON SPOTTED IN JEROME, ARIZONA

by Leslie Vine
9/19/05

Arizona,songwriters,songs,lyrics The notoriously reclusive songwriter and sometimes poet, Tempemonon was allegedly spotted entertaining a small group of patrons from “The Spirit Room” ( a local hot spot) in Jerome late last Friday night.

Lisa Harvey and another local resident, who prefers to be known only as “Dutchy”, recount the strange tale that outline the events that took place late last Friday night.
“We were just sitting around, visiting on the steps across from The Spirit Room shortly after closing time, as some of us do from time to time, when all the sudden there he was”. It was unusually bright, due to the full moon that graced the skies above Northern Arizona that night. They were in the middle of exchanging local gossip when the small group of revellers spied a dark figure approaching from the north end of town. “I looked up and saw him standing by the fire station, about a block away at the edge of town “ said Dutchy. “ He had something slung over his shoulder, which turned out to be a guitar”. He strode towards the group and, when in earshot, offered up a greeting. “We spoke with him for quite a while that night, he turned out to be a very mysterious sort of character”.

He told them that he had come to town to support and attend the opening of a show for a friend and local artist in one of the many art galleries that line streets in the town of Jerome. Once part of a booming mining industry, the small town located in the mountains above the Verde Valley ( situated about a half an hour outside Sedona, Arizona ) has long since transformed itself into a thriving artists community.

“He told us that he’d built himself a completely self sufficient sanctuary, off the grid as they say, and that he rarely felt the need to come into civilisation. He said he had it all set up so that he could work on his art, totally independent of the outside world. He said that he created all kinds of music, mostly. From Country to Rock & Roll and even Hip Hop, which is a style I’m not usually particularly fond of “ espoused Dutchy. The group participated in an impromptu jam session, courtesy of the guitar wielding Tempemonon and a third patron from The Spirit Room, who managed to produce a tambourine.

“He sat on the steps with us and played about a half a dozen songs, really catchy tunes. I think the last one was called "Camptown Girls" , which I quite liked “ said Dutchy.
But when a group pulled up in a VW Micro bus and stopped to talk to the mutual group of friends who had gathered on the steps, Tempemonon slipped back into the night as quickly as he had appeared.

“We all walked over to the bus to say hello and chat through the window for just a moment and when we turned back around he was gone. He just seemed to vanish like a ghost or something.”

Lisa continued “The weirdest thing, almost spooky really, is that out of that entire bus full of people - and there were six of them - not one of them saw him (Tempemonon). I asked them if anyone had seen where the guy sitting here playing guitar had went and they all looked at me like I was crazy! It was almost as though he had never even existed.”