Recent Video & Performance pieces by Ergo Phizmiz

"The Impulse to Shoot at Every Shadow" by Ergo Phizmiz from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Ergo Phizmiz "It's a Sin" Pet Shop Boys On Fire from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.


Queen Ergo Phizmiz the 1st of England delivers The Queen's Speech from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Greater Than or Equal To video by Ergo Phizmiz from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Ergo Phizmiz Has a Really, Really, Really Bad Dream from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Ergo Phizmiz "Units of Mystification" from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Ergo Phizmiz "Units of Mystification - Part Two" from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Ergo Phizmiz "Units of Mystification - Part One" from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Ergo Phizmiz & Elvis Herod Dance to The End of Music from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Ergo Phizmiz dances to Chicago Juke vs Pitman's Gramophone Course from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Now That's What We Pump At The Press Release...

We are delighted to announce the online-only, free release of a new album of covers of 1990s chartbusting, dancefloor filling smash hits, arranged for acoustic, electronic, homemade, and toy instruments, by Ergo Phizmiz & The Midnight Florists.

"Now That's What We Pump At The Party"

Following in the footsteps of the reviled, acclaimed, maimed and shamed Ergo Phizmiz & his Orchestra project (also available free), which covered the music of Aphex Twin, the entirety of the second Velvet Underground album, and a selection of 90s & noughties R & B classics for acoustic and toy instrument. This recording, however, moves on from the sound of the Orchestra project, moving into a more band-orientated sound, sounding something similar to strange manic jazz made by psychotic octogenarians on whatever instruments they could find.

For anyone with fond or hate-filled memories of such luminaries as C & C Music Factory,Dee Lite, Lou Bega, Culture Beat, or Snap, this album is for you. Hear Ergo & the Florists tear their way through "Rhythm is Dancer" like a party of wild banshees armed with ukuleles and box drums, or crawling across the bar-room Harmonium on an afterparty "Mambo No 5". Help us call "Mr Vain", complete with toy piano and the Monkton-o-phone, or simply put on your dancing shoes and begrudgingly admit that "Groove is in the Heart", which, hearts in the groove, the Midnight Florists plough through, group falsetti circling like vultures atop the corpse of that 'indestructable medium', the CD.

This album is the first release by the new musical unit The Midnight Florists. The group, on this release, is comprised of Ergo Phizmiz, The Travelling Mongoose, Monkton Wylde and Vulnavia Vanity, all of whom play all manner of instruments and contribute vocals to the release. Special mention should go to The Travelling Mongoose's newfound skills in very, very high falsetto vocals, at which he is an undisputed master.

Download, dance, and tell all your friends .....

Here be the link, on the marvellous WFMU Free Music Archive .....

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ergo_Phizmiz/Now_Thats_What_We_Pump_At_The_Party/

Komediergophizmiz!

From deep, deep in the Phizmiz vaults come these two nuggets of delight from 2003.

Written by Ergo Phizmiz, and performed by comic genius and Renaissance man Erik Bumbledonk, who uploaded these gems previously thought lost to the big cardboard box of eternally disappeared CDrs.




"Santa Claus gets relatively bored sat in his little cupboard everyday by himself. Throughout the course of the year while he waits for Christmas to happen, this is what he does."











"Its hard being a stand-up comedian. It gets even harder when you get a big laugh though. Featuring birds." * Note: those of you with either minors or miners may be warned that this piece has a few rather rude words in and also features Erik Bumbledonk's slice of hanging beef! *






More glorious Bumbledonk here.

Filmed at the Mechanischemusikkabinett : Bally Buttons - A Studio Improvisation

The second of tonight's splurge of new videos from the laboratory is "Bally Buttons", a studio improvisation by Ergo Phizmiz.