Aleph Nought

Bio:

.. ALEPH NOUGHT consists of an Louis Underwood and Patrick Hambrect.

We like all sorts of things. We especially like making all sorts of interesting sounds that can help you to connect with your inner and outer nature of the Cosmos and THE MIND (aka God, Buddha, whathave you). We also like making sounds that can confuse you and obliterate the tenuous grasp you may have on reality. Either way, we are here for you to help guide and/or confuse you with our soundsculptures. We also love you all very much.

Patrick Hambrecht is the leader/patriarch of the amazing uberband known to you mere mortals as FLAMING FIRE. In case you didn't realize, FF is pretty much the greatest band to walk the face of the Earth (not to mention Mars and, of course, Rigel 7.)

Louis Underwood (or Lou Underwood, if you prefer) is a super double secret member of FLAMING FIRE, as well as the progenitor of NO CURE FOR FOOLS, a rapidly developing music-unit that you will no doubt obsess over for the rest of your life.

Here is a recent review to blow your mind and leave you wanting more of our sounds forever and ever:

Monotremata

"Flaming Fire / Aleph Nought -- split cd [Perhaps Transparent] The aleph nought is a magical number (which is about all you'll get out of me on the subject, since I barely understand how to add up my checkbook), but in this context, it's also a side project featuring Flaming Fire vocalist / noisemaker Patrick Hambrecht. Flaming Fire, as always, are the lunatic-sounding and spiritually inclined band spearheaded by Hambrecht, his wife Kate and Laura Weinstein on vocals, and various other pals providing the whacked-out music. This cd, packaged in a lovely letter-pressed sleeve and limited to 250 copies, features three new songs by Flaming Fire and one lengthy one by Aleph Nought. Flaming Fire opens with "Celesticide Anthem," an ambient and psychedelic journey reminiscent of early Pink Floyd, and a far cry from the devolved-pop of the band's previous full-length. On "It Was A Dark Night," though, the smiliar sound that starts off the track soon abruptly segues into a bizarre beat and song, which becomes catchier by the measure -- classic Flaming Fire, especially the way it turns into a completely different sound again by the middle of the song. And again! (Etc.) "Listen" is simpler and more contemplative, but there are plenty of surprises lurking in the background behind Kate and Laura. Puzzling, cryptic stuff, just the way you know you like it. The Aleph Nought track, aka ALEPH NOUGHT, TRANSMISSION ONE, aka "The Transdimensional Ooze of the Electric Space Amoeba," is some seriously demented psychedelic noise, courtesy of Louis Underwood on the left channel and Patrick on the right. If these participants weren't such God-fearing people, I'd think they were smoking crack or something before they started banging on stuff. It certainly sounds like they were having fun...! Once the novelty of hitting things wears off, though, there are some rumbling, ambient moments with minimal clattering that are actually kind of contemplative. As the track progresses, it gets increasingly spacier, moving away from noise as the primary focus to zoned-out trance-psych as the hypnotizing force. The spirit of Sun Ra favors these proceedings with a roll of the white dice and a cryptic sign, if you know what I mean. (And if you don't, well, you probably won't understand this eccentric sonic feast either.)"

Member Since:

February 26, 2006

Members:

Louis Underwood, Patrick Hambrecht

Influences:

THE MIND, Space, God, Comic Books

Sounds Like:

The Cosmos, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sun Ra

Record Label:

Perhaps Transparent