Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Wristwatch
Brad Riggan
Quintron and Miss Pussycat among some boulders.
Quintron and Miss Pussycat
Quintron & Miss Pussycat bring the gritty and glorious artistic gumbo of their New Orleans home to the world with concerts featuring music (so irresistible it will make even the most dedicated non-dancer sway), puppets and other creative experiments. They’re back for a repeat appearance at the Puppets In The House festival in Verona on Oct. 9 (find tickets for the puppet show Party Planning for Animals here), and this year the duo is sticking around a couple extra days to bring the rock to Gamma Ray. With Wristwatch.
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media release: Quintron and Miss Pussycat have been making genre-defying noise and hard rocking dance music in New Orleans for over thirty years. The majority of their 19 full-length albums have the psychedelic soul of traditional New Orleans party music, filtered through a Hammond organ, technicolor puppets, and a battalion of distorted, homemade instruments. After the release of Goblin Alert (Goner 2020), the duo expanded to sometimes include other New Orleans musicians for live shows.
Quintron and Miss Pussycat's sweaty musical blasts are paralleled in spirit and performance by Miss Pussycat's dreamy puppet worlds - elaborate, and beautifully crafted for success in intimate venues of late-night drinking and dancing. She has also had several major solo museum exhibitions of ceramics, paintings and other visual work related to her puppetry.
In addition to his work with Miss Pussycat, Quintron has been releasing albums featuring a self-made weather synthesizer called Weather Warlock, which uses sun, rain, temperature, and wind to make music. He has also played organ on a number of records by other artists, most notably The Oblivians (9 songs) and Steve Riley's "Grand Isle" which was nominated for a Grammy in 2012.
Miss Pussycat and Quintron have also produced several puppet films, including North Pole Nutrias(WLAE), Trixie and the Treetrunks (Vice Media), and Frenchy and Jettâ (Disney).
The Quintron / Miss Pussycat experience is one of barely controlled electronic chaos, "Swamp-Tech" dance beats, small explosions, incredible clothes, and entertaining puppet stories. You can see them perform regularly at The Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans 9th Ward, or on one of their many tours around the world. This act somehow has equal relevance in sleazy nightclubs, pizza restaurants, and university lecture halls.
Quintron regards his most significant creation to be a patented instrument called THE DRUM BUDDY, a light activated analog synthesizer which creates murky, low-fidelity, rhythmic patterns. Notable DRUM BUDDY clients include performers Nels Cline of Wilco, Laurie Anderson, Fred Armisen, and DJ Mr. Dibbs.
