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Corpus Callosum
12+ albums
bluespunkacousticindieamericana
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Corpus Callosum is finely-crafted songs and obsessively-arranged music, paired with experimental puppetry, installation and performance-art. Self-produced with a DIY spirit, but a professional ethic, this ensemble manufactures wonderment with quality musicianship and understated magicianship. A Corpus Callosum show starts small: an accordionist approaches the stage alone. He squeezes a slow chantey from the yawning bellows of his accordion. He sings. One by one his band mates emerge from the crowd. Each member of Corpus Callosum carries a worn brown suitcase. The lilting solo ballad effloresces into full orchestration as the performers divest their suitcases of the instruments therein concealed. Accordion is joined by bells, mandolin, ukulele, banjo, toy piano and scrap-metal percussion, while vocals branch into four-part harmony. Throughout the performance each member will take several parts, calling for several instruments, and sing harmonies. With Stevie's arrangements Corpus Callosum can effect the sound of a small orchestra. Dax, a puppeteer with an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, builds an eight foot long Spanish galleon from seemingly haphazard bits of cardboard. Stephanie, a dancer trained in Prague, twirls with a giant moth puppet. Qarly, a graduate of the Clown Conservatory in San Francisco, dons stilts. Jason hammers a soft beat from his home-made banjo, Avery tears the strings of a guitar emblazoned with an oil painting of a moth caught in a
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