primus and the chocolate factory full album

I have early memories as a young kid playing around with stuff in the bathroom cabinet and a fake moustache and trying to be in that weird world. LC ‘As a child my first obsession was with Adam West and Batman and then I got really into Willy Wonka. A couple of years ago the theme was the Chocolate Factory and it came off so well and everything fell so perfectly into place that we decided to continue with it.’

‘LC : The whole thing started because every year we do a big new years show as Primus in San Francisco and we always have a theme for that show. LTW: This is some project and it came off the back of Primus seeming to go into a lull. The whole world that we have constructed.’ LC : ’Expect to be transported into the weird and wonderful world of Willy Wonka! We are bringing it all over, the whole stage set. LTW : We’ve seen youtube clips of the Willy Wonka gig and it looks like a real trip with its own stage set that matches the music for its surrealistic twist. With the band over to tour the UK in June, LTW spoke to Les Claypool who is affable and smart as he explains all things Wonka and weird to us. The album is a re-imagining of the soundtrack of the film Willy Wonka And the Chocolate Factory and taps into the melancholic skewed reality of Roald Dahl’s children’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with a childlike glee and a gimlet cackling eye for musical dexterity and is like entering a world all of its own. Their last album, The Green Naugahyde, is arguably their best and their latest adventure Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble is off the scale. Instead of resting on their laurels they just went weirder and even more interesting. They even managed to pull off hit singles and albums with idiosyncratic songs and goofy video clips that somehow fitted into MTV and the touring circuit.

With the same kind of surreal twist and musical imagination of the godlike Captain Beefheart and the thirst of adventure of the underground they somehow stumbled into the mainstream when a whole generation of rock and metal fans, as well as lovers of the kooky and the weird, embraced them and their innate funky rockiness. Tue, 23 June O2 Academy Brixton, London …ĭriven by the bass player extrordanaire, Les Claypool, Primus have been making a brilliant series of idiosyncratic album for years which have pulled of the remarkable feet and gate crashing the mainstream epistle their artful wonkiness.

Primus and the chocolate factory full album