Description
**THIS IS A VINYL LP**
Release Date: 2024
Label: Suis Generis
Track List
Side A
- Dragon Fruit
- Jaboticaba
- Marukuya Passion Fruit
- Shishandria
Side B
- Python Snake Bean
- Maruba Santoh
- Surinam Cherry
- Motu: King Of The Bayou
- Welcome To The Tiki Farm (Area 53)
Notes
Our debut album, Welcome To The Tiki Farm, is a sonic field guide to The Tiki Farm in Pearlington, MS where chef Ernie Foundas grows the exotic fruits and vegetables used in the unique dishes prepared at Suis Generis Restaurant in New Orleans, LA. Recorded sounds from birds to frogs to bugs to plants to water and more, are used on the album as nature’s orchestra accompanying the musicians – a collaboration of sorts. Most of the song titles are the plants that grow on the farm as well as the local pond dwelling alligator; Motu.
The music, a sonic gumbo of Latin/African/Middle East/Western grooves, is inspired by exotica music of the 1950s/‘60s, film soundtracks and sci-fi. Welcome To The Tiki Farm aims to transport the Tiki Farm to your body, mind and palate. Thank you for your time.
Please note that the vinyl sequencing differs from the streaming/CD versions in that ‘Welcome To The Tiki Farm’ is the last track on side two instead of track one, side one.
Produced and mixed by Carlos Grasso.
Executive Producer: Ernie Foundas.
All songs composed and arranged by Carlos Grasso
All songs published by CF Grasso Music [BMI] except “Jaboticaba” composed by Pink Teddy Bear. Published by Suis Generis Music, LLC / CF Grasso Music [BMI]
Musicians:
JONNY CAMPOS: Electric guitar, pedal steel guitar.
STEVE DALTON: Roland drums, percussion, timbales, djembe.
CARLOS F. GRASSO: Field recordings, sound collages, rhythm loops & programming, electronics, keyboards, percussion, sampler, synthesizers, metal pipe, typewriter, power drill, spring, wine glass.
KIMBERLY HEBERT: Flute, Roland JU-O6A synth
JOSE HERNANDEZ: Electric and acoustic basses, acoustic guitar on “Surinam Cherry”
LEAH HENNESSY: Vocals
DANNY MILOJEVIC: Drums, congas, bongos, percussion, wood blocks, percussion bells, gourd shaker.
Additional musicians:
Matt Perrone: Trumpet
James Bremer: Piano, melodica
Marcus Bronson: Shaker and djembe
Babbette Hines: Triangle on ‘Marukuya Passion Fruit’
Additional field recordings by Ernie Foundas and James Bremer.
Voices on “Welcome to the Tiki Farm (Area 53)”: Adrienne Bell & Ernie Foundas.
Power sander on “Tiki Food Lab”: Jayme Kallal
Vocal arrangements: Tucker Fuller
Recorded at Lo9 Studio, New Orleans, LA.
Engineer: Marcus Bronson.
Additional recording at Payaso, New Orleans, LA.
Engineer: Carlos Grasso.
Enrico Caruso samples used under public domain.
All field and plant recordings were recorded at The Tiki Farm, Pearlington, MS.
Cover art and design: Carlos Grasso
PTB photos: Folwell Dunbar, except Leah Hennessy by Daniela Leal.
For Suis Generis Music: John Guarnieri.
Thanks to: Ernie Foundas, Adrienne Bell, Babbette Hines, Marcus Bronson, Folwell Dunbar, Suis Generis Restaurant, The Tiki Farm, Kevin Comarda, Lo9 Studio, New Orleans Records Press, John Guarnieri, Tucker Fuller, Dennis Herring.
