Vampire Rodents
Vampire Rodents was the name of a sound collage and experimental music ensemble based out of Phoenix, Arizona, although its core members originally came from Canada. The creative nucleus of the project comprised vocalist and composer Daniel Vahnke and keyboardist Victor Wulf. Daniel Vahnke was primarily influenced by 20th-century classical and avant-garde music, whereas Wulf drew from new age, ambient and synth-driven pop music. Their work also dabbled in big band, bebop, musique concrète, industrial, electro, Indian classical and Greek music.
Vampire Rodents debuted with War Music (1991), an album that showcased their knack for dark humor and experimentation with the pop and industrial music format. Premonition (1992), recorded with violinist and cellist Andrea Akastia, revealed the band's artistic ambitious and interest in musique concrète and ambient music. Considered by some to be the group's magnum opus, Lullaby Land (1993) further expanded the sound with the inclusion of additional musicians, house beats, swing rhythms and world music.
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ALBUMS
- Gravity's Rim released: 1996
- Lullaby Land released: 1994
- Clockseed released: 1994
- Premonition released: 1992
- War Music released: 1991
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Lullaby Land
by: Vampire RodentsSharpened today your steel finger tips taps my shoulder
You'd better know the smell of his breath
You are the skin beneath his nails
You'd better sleep with your cloths on
they could be here anytime
You'd better learn how to swim
When it rains - god is crying
When the devil chips a nail - there's an earthquake
Now i see how man made it out to be a action reaction
They'll make a believer out of you
You'd better learn how to swim
You gotta swim like you're going to burst into flames
You'd better learn how to swim in frozen waters
You should spend some time,
You should see what it's like to live in a life embalmed
in decadence
If you think it's too much to remember, too much to know
exactly where they're at
You'd better save some rope for your neck
The davil paints his nails as god's angels adjust their
wire wings
Will you be so sure that you could never believe again
You'd better fake it
You'd better make time to learn how to swim
Keep talking...