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The Fibonaccis unleash two brand-new 2022 albums, More Monkey Tricks: 1981-1984 and Peccadilloes: 1985-1988 , to join last year’s digital albums Fi-No-Na-Cheez: The Early Releases and Civilization and Its Discotheques . These new albums complete a musical history lesson on the 80s’ Los Angeles art band and fill the gap between the out-of-print 1992 CD retrospective, repressed: The Best of the Fibonaccis 1981 – 1987 , and the present.

 

“While defying any possible attempt at categorization, group never ventures far afield from readily identifiable musical styles.

They just assemble the familiar parts in totally unique combinations.” —Variety

 

“What we have is a band of a thousand influences, but not the usual boring, solemn ones.” —Matt Groening, LA Reader

 

Live Radio Shows: For 2022, The Fibonaccis have opened their archives and gifted listeners with two live radio shows: the never-before-released 1987 Evening Becomes Eclectic with Isabel Holt radio show broadcast on SoCal college radio giant KCRW and the tracks included on the ’92 CD from the Carl Stone radio show broadcast on Pacifica’s KPFK. In addition, there are unreleased tracks included from that show.

 

Club Rarities: What has really been missing is the feeling of what The Fibonaccis sounded like with a live audience. Club rarities fill in that gap. Tracks are selected from LA’s art wave, art punk, and new wave venues and show the sonic range of the band’s live performances. Tracks from the Whisky A Go Go , the Club Lingerie, the Downtown LA underground venue Al’s Bar, Hollywood’s Lhasa Club, and others are included.

 

“A great, little known, and long gone but not forgotten band from the eighties out of LA,

the Fibonaccis still sound as good today as they did when these tracks were first recorded…” —  

“Their musical roots are a great multitude of fibrous filaments that meander through a world of different traditions,

soaking up bits of ideas, notes, sounds, and rhythms.” —The Rocket

 

Demos: And third, there is a trove of demos The Fibonaccis recorded from their early days until the end—tracks recorded under all possible conditions for disparate purposes. More Monkey Tricks: 1981-1984 has the earliest known 1981 "living room demos,” which resulted in Wall of Voodoo’s label, Index Records, releasing the fi- bo - na -chez EP in April of 1982 (40 years ago!). “O Venezia, Venaga , Venusia ” is a Nino Rota cover from the Fellini Casanova soundtrack, done as a demo for Hal Wilner , who produced the Amarcord Nino Rota retrospective album in 1981. Pecaddilloes : 1985-1988 features studio demos that didn’t make it into 1987’s Civilization and Its Discotheques LP, as well as live club and rehearsal tracks recorded during the TerrorVision motion picture soundtrack sessions. (The Fibonaccis ’ final tracks from that film are available separately on WRWTFWW Records ).

 

“When I first saw the Fibonaccis perform in Hollywood’s Cathay de Grande, a scarred basement venue for one-night upstarts,

I remember the corners gasping, “they’re too good for this crowd.” –Austin Chronicle

 

"A band whose musical influences have been described as 'incomprehensibly vast’" —Option Magazine

As guitarist Ron Stringer said in a 1981 interview for the LA Times, "We introduce strange musical elements without being pompous. I think people enjoy musical surprises.” Keyboardist John Dentino then offered a description of The Fibonaccis ’ style for the LA Times writer: "How about Euro-techno-disco-Fellini-circus-chamber-music?"

 

Folks, we challenge you to pick your own descriptions for 2022!

 

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