Comedia | zh
There are two collaborative supergroups with this name:
1) featuring John Vanderslice and John Darnielle
2) featuring Finnish stand up comedians
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"The Comedians" is the name of a collaborative supergroup featuring John Vanderslice and John Darnielle.
Darnielle put up a sketch of theirs on The Mountain Goats' website as part of a Christmas "tradition." http://www.mountain-goats.com/archives/2007/12/in-which-the-wo.html
In 2009, Darnielle and Vanderslice released Moon Colony Bloodbath, a concept record about organ harvesting colonies on the moon. The EP was initially produced in a limited vinyl run of 1000 and sold during their "Gone Primitive" tour. No plans for wider distribution have...
The Comedian Harmonists were an internationally famous, all-male German close harmony ensemble (5 singers and a pianist) that performed between 1927 and 1934 as one of the most successful musical groups in Europe before World War II. The group consisted of Harry Frommermann (tenor buffo), Ari Leschnikoff (first tenor), Erich Collin (second tenor), Roman Cycowski (baritone), Robert Biberti (bass), and Erwin Bootz (pianist).
The hallmark of the Comedian Harmonists was its members' ability to blend their voices together so that the individual singers could appear and disappear back into the vocal texture and were noted for using their voices to...