Hum B

Recorded live at the up and down in SF. Jamal stood right in front of his recording mic thus his reduced sound level in a pretty amazing performance.

Tropical Acld

Strawberry Blonde

G Bop

live recording from Havana Cabana. Carl Palomino is heard saying "fat daddy" in the background after Jon's nasty introduction. He is the one that brought us to the Nuuanu side of Chinatown.

Licky Licky

Annoying Egg

Fry Away

Tora Bionic

Burst

Massive

This song, recorded in 98, was done in two stages.
  First was a live session in S.F. with Zahrin Saleh (bass), Jonathon Heraux (drums)and Bret Stidham (guitar). 
 Second stage was done in Hawaii at Jon's studio in Waipahu later in the year. Eli Clemens did the congas, dj SubZero (aka Jerry Wilkins) added the scratch and samples and Zahrin and I (B. Stidham) added an old analog Moog and other noises.
The sessions in San Francisco (on 48th and Lawton)were captured on a digital 4 track the size of a thick VCR and were the always the trio of Hreaux, Saleh and Stidham. we used 2 mics for drums, 1 mic for guitar, bass was direct. The Hawaii sessions were more sporadic and focused.  Eli came to the studio and knocked his tracks out in one take each ("...next"). Sub Zero came to the studio on a different day and did his thing with taste, timing and professionalism.   

Sun 5

  Acidjazz, fusion, psychedelic instrumentalistic funkwave with roots in hip hop, rock, jazz, meditative chant, funk and more. This was a studio project/ band consisting of Jon Heraux, Eli Clemens, Jamal Mamalias, Zahrin Saleh, dj Subzero and Bret Stidham. It was a more refined, mellower spinoff of a band called Fungus (thurs. at Cafe' Valentino's '95-'97)that was a more party oriented, fun, slap bass drunk classic 90's style outfit complete with sexy chick. There were a couple of results of the band Fungus. One was the #Quadraphonix who still play in town and around the world, and the other was Zoul Bahshroomti which was just the studio name of a band called Hog Daddy who ripped it in Chinatown in '97-'98 at a spot called Havana Cabana. 
  We recorded in two stages. First in SF and then in Hawaii. Some of the songs started life in in the bay with the trio of Heraux, Saleh and Stidham on drums, bass and guitar respectively and were completed in Waipahu months later in many studio sessions, some very simple affairs and others were more involved. The weirder of the Hawaii sessions involved a lot of weed, musical indulgement and finally devolvement into soursop eating. 
 Anyway, the thing about this album, it's a solid snapshot/reflection of place and time and it is also it has stood the test of time regardless of the number of people who knew or will know of it's existence.   

Zoul Bahshroomti

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