CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
Painstakingly transporting our haunted grandfather clock into the wider world to be thrilled by the season's first snowfall, it was our delight to engender two slowed-time remixes of Ken Clinger's magical "First Snow," and our honor that Ken has released them in this EP (free download at Bandcamp):
Thanks to [former DJ] Green Sugar in Germany, who said, "The clock's ticking, the surreal singing, the radio noise effects... A very warm spook. This is one of this songs which is a world on its own... I LOVE IT!!!"
And thanks to DJ Tundra, who said, "A both highly enjoyable and very artistic musical endeavor that is full of mystery and intrigue as the story unfolds. Really great creativity on full display here. Impressive work by all involved, and what a great music video!!"
Here's the strange manifesto of Neons Gone Mad, about which Gary Barwin (author of Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted) says, "These cats are living their nine lives (that's 18 in total) to the fullest of their auricular nimbosity, making deft punkts pointedly in this great remiaou remeow remix, tessellating their oscillatory cattongues to take us beyond the veil to the catasubtonic world of gneonsticistic dreams, in this tasty neon mignon gnom noms, an aural gnomon taking the light and turning it dark to part the conceptual curtain (vale veil!) to allow us to gaze upon the performances on night's stage."
Neons Gone Mad is honored that Diego Merletto of the Italian band Static Movement was interested in a clockwork cover of the classic song "Radio Station." (Hear Neons Gone Mad on Bandcamp.)
A sojourn in the holo-desert: Neons Gone Mad offers a haunted clockwork remix of an amazing track by Kaerian & GrevusAnjl. We're honored that GrevusAnjl said: "Wonderful translation of our original. Clockwork sounds are one of my happy spaces, so this really hits the spot."
We again seek to make contact with the Other Side (in this case, also with the "other side of the pond"), via a clockwork cover of the British band Age of Consent's "The Beach." You'll remember from the Grand Theft Auto V soundtrack the amazing song "Colours" by Age of Consent, and we're hononed that they were interested in hearing our clockwork take on "The Beach." Note that we took the original lyrics in a different direction, changing the context to a departed soul navigating the Bardo as described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Here's a link to the audio of our clockwork cover.
Why combine a haunted grandfather clock, Tesla spirit radio, and grand piano? All is explained (and then some) in Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia. (Hear Neons Gone Mad on Bandcamp.)
The full show is archived here, with our set beginning at 28:20 (snippet player below). Thank you, DJ Heather Perkins, for identifying our music as coming from a parallel universe and for calling our Prof. Oddfellow work "amazing ... you will not be disappointed."
Neons Gone Mad is honored to debut a song by Hollywood star Milla Jovovich, in collaboration with Swedish synthesist Glaciære. Our haunted grandfather clock and spirit radio make it a sextet. (Hear Neons Gone Mad on Bandcamp.)