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Menomena is an
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band from
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, United States, made up of Justin Harris and Danny Seim. Both members of the band share singing duties and frequently swap instruments while recording. In concert, Seim plays drums, while Harris swaps between a number of instruments.


History

Menomena began as a
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of Seim's
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,
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. The band formed in late 2000, when
Brent Knopf Ramona Falls is an indie rock project founded by Brent Knopf and based in Portland, Oregon. The band name is taken from a Ramona Falls (Oregon), waterfall located near Mount Hood, a place where Knopf used to hike as a child. Brent Knopf co-founde ...
graduated from
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and returned to
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to collaborate with Harris and Seim. The name "Menomena" was chosen for "the way it rolls off the tongue, sexually, or something" and has no specific meaning, although it is often assumed to refer to the
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song "
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", a staple of ''
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''. In an audio clip from SpotDJ, Knopf sarcastically stated that the band name was a combination of the words "Men" and "Phenomena." It is Greek for "what remains." Menomena played their first show on July 20, 2001, at The Meow Meow, a now-defunct all ages venue in Portland. The trio opened with a
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of "The Abandoned Hospital Ship" by
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. Shortly after, they joined the roster of High Road Touring, a
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-based
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. For their first U.S. tour in 2004, Menomena drove a 1977 Dodge Sportsman RV. The aging vehicle suffered many breakdowns along the way. Knopf detailed these issues in an interview in ''
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'': "Systems that failed (and had to be replaced) during the tour included the following: tires, muffler, brake, master cylinder, exhaust manifold, windshield wipers, horn, side-view mirrors (both fell off). Oh, and did I mention that there were two fires? Not one. Two. This vehicle promptly earned the moniker 'RV Danger.'" RV Danger (most likely a reference to Seattle band
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) was later immortalized in a tour poster illustrated by Tyler Stout, who has collaborated with the band on numerous occasions. Other notable tours in Menomena's early career were with
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, The National, and
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. After several releases and national tours, Menomena signed with
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Records in August 2006. The band still maintains a relationship with their original label,
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. It was stated that FILMguerrero will continue be involved in their back catalog and possibly with future
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releases. Menomena signed a contract with
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record label
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, to release their album ''Friend and Foe'' across
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on August 31, 2007. The band toured Europe twice that year, and their adventures were extensively chronicled by Seim in a
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for Portland-based website ''Local Cut''.


''I Am the Fun Blame Monster!''

After giving away several different homemade demo
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recordings at local shows, Knopf, Harris, and Seim stuck with the
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aesthetic of their early demos by recording their first album themselves. The result was their nine-song debut, '' I Am the Fun Blame Monster!'' (an
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for "The First Menomena Album"), which was self-released on May 20, 2003. The album was elaborately packaged in an 80-page
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that Seim designed and individually hand-assembled while working at
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. A friend advised the band to mail a copy of their album to
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, a popular music website that Seim "had never heard of" at the time. Several months later, Pitchfork gave the album an 8.7/10 rating, and placed it in the "Best New Music" section. The band continued to assemble the flipbooks by hand and distribute them with the help of online retailer
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until late 2004, when the album was released nationwide by FILMguerrero, a Portland-based independent record label. The song "Strongest Man in the World" is featured on the soundtrack to the film '' Paranoid Park'', which was not only set and filmed in Portland, but also directed by fellow Rip City resident
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. Danny Seim has written about his youth involvement in Portland's skate culture for soundcheckmagazine.com.


''Under an Hour''

On November 8, 2005, Menomena released '' Under an Hour'', an album of
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music written for and performed with
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, an experimental dance company based in Portland. The release consists of only three tracks, each of which is over seventeen minutes in length. ''
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'' gave the album a somewhat lukewarm "B−" and described it as, "…an interesting view into a band that continues to evolve without really throwing down any breadcrumbs for them or us to follow."


''Friend and Foe''

Menomena released their third album (and first via Barsuk Records) on January 23, 2007. As with their first two releases, ''
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'' was entirely produced, recorded, and mixed by the band. It received relative critical acclaim—while some websites such as ''Lost at Sea'' praised the album for its offbeat rhythmic structure and creative use of melody, others such as ''
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'' criticized it for presenting a sense of feigned maturity. Pitchfork gave the album an 8.5/10 and again placed it in the "Best New Music" section, calling it, "…The first great indie rock record of the new year." To celebrate the release of the album, Harris assembled a 25-member choir and taught them the various vocal layers of the new material with the help of his mother Diane, a trained opera singer. The choir was made up of other Portland-based bands and artists, including
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,
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, Nick Jaina, Pseudosix,
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, Boy Eats Drum Machine,
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, Miss Murgatroid,
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, and several other of Harris' close friends. The ''Friend and Foe'' CD release show was held at Portland's Crystal Ballroom on January 28, 2007. The CD and LP (the latter was released in August 2007 by FILMguerrero) features an intricate packaging layout consisting of
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-cut shapes, decoder rings, and hidden messages. It was designed by Knopf and illustrated by cult graphic novelist/cartoonist
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, of ''
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'' fame. Thompson's artwork for ''Friend and Foe'' was nominated for a
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for "Best Recording Package."


''Mines''

Danny Seim stated in an October 2008 interview that a new Menomena album was tentatively expected to debut in the beginning of 2009. "In a perfect world, we would have been done with a new record. Fall ’08 would have been great. But then that's moved to January ’09 … we hadn’t seen one another and we’re seeing each other for some European dates, and a festival date here and there. We’re moving on a U2 time frame. ...We have a ton of material to use and we have to structure the stuff, pick up instruments and find songs. I’d love to say January ’09 but maybe I just like the way those words sound." Menomena spent most of 2009 in and out of the studio. A collection of pictures from these sessions were posted on their official Myspace, although no comments were made about the album's progress. In December, Pitchfork posted a video of Menomena playing a brand new track, "Queen Black Acid", in a hotel room, and in January Menomena stated, "We're finishing our new album in two weeks..." via Twitter. It was confirmed by Pitchfork on April 7, 2010, that Menomena's fourth full-length album, '' Mines'', would be released on July 26 in Europe via
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and July 27 in North America via Barsuk. A 7-inch split with The Helio Sequence would also be released on
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, with Menomena contributing the new track "Pilgrim's Progress".


Brent Knopf's departure

On January 7, 2011, Menomena announced the departure of Brent Knopf on the Menomena website: "After 10 years of fruitful collaboration, Brent Knopf has decided to part ways with Menomena to focus on Ramona Falls and other creative pursuits. We want to thank Brent for his vast contributions over the years and wish him nothing but happiness in all of his future endeavors. All three of us look forward to seeing you soon!" Knopf was replaced by Paul Alcott for the remaining Mines tour dates. Both Knopf and Danny Seim addressed the matter in an interview posted on the Portland-based Local Cut blog two weeks later. Seim mentioned that he and Justin Harris will continue to make music as Menomena, stating, "We lost a major creative force in Brent, but thankfully, Brent's not Kurt Cobain, and we’re not Nirvana. Brent's more like Peter Gabriel and we’re more like Genesis. And everyone knows how much better Genesis got after that talentless hack Gabriel quit. Waitaminute…"


''Moms''

On June 6, 2012, Menomena announced their fifth album, ''
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'', which was released September 18, 2012. The album has been noted for its more personal lyrical themes, which address both members' relationships with their mothers.


Live performance

In a performance setting, Menomena attempts to replicate the often dense instrumentation found on their recordings without the use of
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. Throughout the course of a typical concert, Harris plays electric guitar(s),
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, electric bass,
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foot synthesizer (or a
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Pk-5 when touring Europe),
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, and
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; Seim plays drums and other percussion. Both members contribute vocal harmonies and sing lead on different songs. In 2007 they did a Take-Away Show acoustic video session shot by
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. Later on that year, Craig Thompson appeared on stage with Menomena at several concerts over the course of a European tour. Throughout these performances, Thompson painted along with the music using a brush and ink on a large sheet of butcher paper. At the end of each show, the pieces were ripped into shreds and thrown into the audience. Menomena added multi-instrumentalist Joe Haege of
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as a touring member in 2010. On August 9, the band made their national television debut as a four-piece with Haege on
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.


Creative process

The band's songwriting process involves a
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called the Digital Looping Recorder, or Deeler for short. It was programmed by Knopf using the language
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. Seim explains the process: "First, we set the
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of the click, which is played through a pair of
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. We then take turns passing a single mic around the room. One of us will hold the mic in front of an instrument, while another one of us will lay down a short improvised riff over the click track. We usually start with the drums. Once the drums begin
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ing, we throw on some bass, piano, guitar, bells, sax, or whatever other sort of noisemaker happens to be in the room. Deeler keeps the process democratic, which is the only way we can operate." The use of Deeler as a compositional tool was discussed extensively by the band in an interview published in the May/June 2005 issue (#47) of ''
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'' magazine. Menomena is a band with no primary
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, and their albums develop through a slow exchange of song ideas - usually via
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. "I'm not aware of a single instance when we were together ecording" said Brent Knopf of the album '' Mines''. ''
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'' described this as a "painstaking cut-and-paste method of song assembly ... as each member contributes, then vanishes, only to return later to add more."


Grammy Awards and nominations

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Discography


Albums

* '' I Am the Fun Blame Monster!'' CD/LP (self-released, 2003; re-released FILMguerrero, 2004; re-released SlyVinyl, 2019) * '' Under an Hour'' CD (FILMguerrero, 2005) * ''
Friend and Foe ''Friend and Foe'' is the third release from the Portland, Oregon-based band Menomena. It was released January 23, 2007 by Barsuk Records. The cover art is designed by Craig Thompson, writer and illustrator of the award-winning graphic novel ''Bla ...
'' CD/LP (Barsuk/FILMguerrero, 2007) * '' Mines'' CD/LP (Barsuk, 2010) * ''
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'' CD/LP (Barsuk, 2012)


EPs

* ''Rose EP'' (self-released, February 2001) * ''Scissors and Blue'' (split EP w/ Societa Anonima) (
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/ Cut & Paste Collective, 2002) * ''Wet and Rusting'' (FILMguerrero, 2006)


7" singles

* "Posh Isolation" / "Tung Track" (
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, 2005) * "Wet and Rusting" / "Gay A" (City Slang, 2007) * "Heliomena" "/ "Pilgrim's Progress" (split 7-inch with The Helio Sequence)'' (2010)


References


External links

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