He picks the guitar with mysterious and spacey riffs like Syd Barret. Larry Lalonde (ex-Possessed) creates many uncanny sound effects with his fret board. The marimba adds some colorful melodies with an Asian Indian flair to it. The bass plucking has a late sixties aesthetic, which is consistent with sixties era Pink Floyd. The guitar music starts with simplistic high note plucking and he breaks out with a psychedelic guitar solo towards the end of the track. The refrain goes "come with me and you'll see a world of pure imagination", this is an anthemic song to this soundtrack. Les changes his vocal presentations very humorously, kind of like how Frank Zappa used to do. Pure Imagination opens with a funny sounding introduction "ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.the chocolate room". All four of those songs progress weirder and stranger, up to the last one. During the Ooompa Loompa songs, the upright bass drives the music with odd time changes. Les uses this instrument to stir up some psychedelic disorientations that are artistically profound and at a bizarre level of technicality. It's the largest and lowest pitched string instrument of the viol family and may be plucked or bowed. In eight of the fourteen songs, Les plays an upright bass. The bass music sometimes plays a subtle role, while the other instrumentalists display dazzling solos. The intricate bass rhythms sound psychedelic like Roger Waters with classic Pink Floyd. Les' vocals start sounding pretty weird and so does his funny bass playing. The lyrics are about Charlie finding the last golden ticket, for a tour of a chocolate factory, inside a candy wrapper. It seems to be a slow paced sleepy song, but then it suddenly breaks out with more vibrancy. Golden Ticket starts with an almost catchy melody, which is soon embellished with hypnotizing marimba notes. In the four Oompa Loompa songs he uses funny voices, with higher pitched vocal tones for a humorous effect.
Sometimes he uses a lower vocal strain that's distorted by the throat with an exaggerated southern drawl. He takes the dramatized songs and vocalizes the lyrics with his version of how the different characters sung them in the original movie. His acting abilities are also apparent in his vocals for this album. He directed and acted in a 2006 film, entitled Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo. Les Claypool is an avid participant in the performing arts.
The lyrics are about the love that an artisan confectioner puts into his premium products. Les' vocals change up with varying tones, from speaking to shouting. A bizarre noise is being made by the upright bass, which sounds like a mooing cow. The guitar hits a short psychedelic riff, the marimba takes us up to cloud nine with some dreamy melodies. The musical arrangements become circular, with each instrument taking a separate moment to stand out in the spotlight. The effect is very reminiscent of the drum playing of Nick Mason with late sixties era Pink Floyd. The Candy Man starts with the rhythmic drum beat patterns showcasing multiple tones, with methodical cymbal crashing, all played with echoes to give it a psychedelic ambiance. The cymbal playing complements the marimba music, the marimba music complements the drum beats, and the drum playing complements the bass music. The cymbals are crashed with interesting patterns, while the drums are typically played with simple rhythms. It's usually subtle with a low profile, but he does get his turns to show off.
#PRIMUS AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY FULL ALBUM UPDATE#
So will they update this classic soundtrack with some contemporary funk rock?ĭrum beats don't always seem to be present in these compositions. So this approximately thirty-eight minute release is a cover album to the forty-four year old soundtrack of the movie: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. This current CD, Primus and the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble, came with a sticker that says: "A twisted re-imagining of the 1971 classic". So the previous drummer, Tim Alexander, came back to reclaim that spot. That album took on a more modern electronic approach to their brand of funk rock. Then over a decade later in 2011, Green Naugahyde peaked at #15 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. That was a "funkenstein" of an album, which seemed to infuse some soul style music into their unique sound. Their 1999 release, Antipop, peaked at #44 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. There have been some line up changes and Les had taken on some side projects as well. Primus hasn't been very consistent with their album releases in recent years.
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