december 8, 2009
MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD
radiolarians: the evolutionary set
Medeski Martin & Wood release their first box set called Radiolarians: The Evolutionary Set. The box set packages the individual Radiolarians installments together for the first time and also includes additional material including a double vinyl LP, a live album called “Explorarians,” a remix album aptly titled “Remixolarians” and “Fly In A Bottle,” MMW’s first feature-length DVD.
CREDITS
Five compact discs
The Radiolarians Series: Radiolarians I, II, & III (plus previously unreleased bonus tracks)
Explorarians: Live (Previously unreleased)
Remixolarians (Previously unreleased)
One DVD
Fly In A Bottle (Directed by Billy Martin)
Two Vinyl Discs 180g
Reduxolarians: Double LP set
Art Direction, Layout & Design by Boxing+Laundry – (Carmel Holt & David Perry), Kingston,NY
All illustrations by 19th century biologist/evolutionary theorist/artist, Ernst Haeckel, taken from “The Radiolarians Atlas of 1862,”
Except FLY IN A BOTTLE illustrations, taken from Hackel’s “Art Forms in Nature”, 1898, used With permission from Ernst Haeckel House Museum, Jena University, Germany
Management – Liz Penta, Emcee Artist Management, NY, NY
Billy Martin uses Zildjian Cymbals, Regal Tip ‘BG’ sticks, and Attack Drum Heads
Chris Wood uses DR strings and GK amplifiers