LUMBEROB is Rob Erickson. He teaches 8th grade honors humanities at a public middle school in Manhattan. Somehow this makes sense when you see his act: a scrambling demonstration of splatter-paint looping and elegant big beat sing-song. Drawing attention to its own process of making, a LUMBEROB show is a workshop in exuberant sound and physical response. Inspired by eclectic psych-noise and avant-garde experiment, LUMBEROB plays the part of DaDa dancehall toaster over a skillful yet haphazard improv building of this art dance madness. It goes gabber. It is trance blanket. It is nursery rhyme. His is wild. Guitar, synth, voice, kick and snare, He comes from a tradition of sonic mess-making, experimental world-building and language-mangling.
As collaborators now for over 25 years, KRAMER and LUMBEROB create majestic avalanches of sound, especially on this new project, HUNTER GATHER. This music is urgent madness, at times overflowing-ly decorative, at times lusciously psych-ready, with an unpredictably eclectic sonic vaudeville energy. Call it Dada Ska, Electro-Skank, Fancy Bounce, LUMBEROBICS! This is urgent art dance for working things out.