Neptune (American band)

For other bands, see Neptune.

Neptune
Current band lineup. Photo by Lindsay Metivier.
Background information
Origin	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Genres	Noise rock, Avant-garde music
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Table of the Elements, Northern Spy, Wrong Way Archival Bureau, Magnetism Crafts, Golden Lab, 100% Breakfast, Mister Records, Hiddenbirdhouse, Distile
Members	Jason Sidney Sanford Mark William Pearson Daniel Paul Boucher
Past members	Gregory Kenney Douglas Last Darryl Blood Carl Wieting Jessica Rylan Malcolm Felder Adrianne Jorge Adam Scotto Christopher Huggins Joel Hamburger Justin Kaiden John Douglas Manson Mary Staubitz Farhad Ebrihimi Kevin Emil Micka Martina Rossi Jesse Gallagher Justin Earl Kipp David Gerhard Utzinger Regina Greene
Website	neptune-band.com

Neptune is an industrial noise rock band from originally hailing from Boston, Massachusetts. Throughout its 30 year career, the band has mostly operated as a collective often collaborating with other musicians and artists both live and on recordings. The Band is noted for having built their custom-made guitars and basses out of scrap steel and other found object and recycled materials. A reviewer once said of the band: "Neptune really do accurately approximate in their music the tragic and violent desolation of the auto graveyards from which they draw their raw materials."

Band history

Neptune's origins trace to 1994 as a sculpture project by Boston artist/musician Jason Sanford, who forged the band's haphazard guitars and reluctant drums from scrap steel and found objects. Nine (+) lineups, twenty-five releases and hundreds of instruments later, the band continues to wrench its sound spatter on self-built instruments to often confounded audiences around the world. As of 2020, Neptune consists of Sanford along with long-time Neptune collaborators Mark William Pearson and Daniel Paul Boucher.

Personnel

• Jason Sidney Sanford – baritone guitar, electric thumb piano, electronics, small electric spring, percussion, feedback organ, bass guitar, radios, vocals
• Mark William Pearson – baritone guitar, bass, electronics, large electric spring, drums, percussion, amplified drums, tape machine, vocals
• Daniel Paul Boucher – drums, found object percussion, oscillators, electronics, violin, electronic drums, vocals

Discography

Studio albums

• Studio Recordings, May MCMXCVII (1999)
• "The Ballet of Process", full-length CD/LP. (Mister/100% Breakfast Records, 2002)
• "Intimate Lightning", full-length CD/LP. (Mister/100% Breakfast Records, 2004)
• Mice and Worms (2005)
• Patterns (2006)
• Neptune (2007)
• Gong Lake (2008)
• 18:40/19:19 (2010)
• Silent Partner (2011)
• msg rcvd (2012)
• Mother of Millions (2021)
• Green White Red (2024)

EPs

• Knife Fight (1996)
• Neptune (1998)
• Basement Recordings E.P. (2001)
• Green Cassette (2005)
• 3" CDR (untitled) (2005)
• White Cassette (2005)
• 3" Collage CDR (untitled) (2005)
• Red Cassette (2006)
• 3" CDR (untitled) (2006)
• Tell My People To Go Home (2007)
• Paris Green (2007)
• Roman Business (2009)
• Cave Drawings (2011)

Singles

• Swang!/Poodle Walk (1995)
• Your Company/Productivity is a Science (2000)
• At the Pink Pony/A Car Is A Weapon (2002)

Live albums

• Live on Pipeline, WMBR 03.16.04 (2019)
• Live at SCSI Cell, 11.20.2004 (2021)

Videos

• The Penetrating Gaze. Video by Bill T. Miller, recorded at the Middle East, Cambridge, MA, 12/29/2005.
• Live in Strasbourg France (full set, 11 songs). Recorded live at Le Zanzibar, Strasbourg, France, 9/27/06. Video by Normaltv.org.

External links

• Official website
• Christopher Strunk (2023-06-24). "https://www.bostoncompassnewspaper.com/post/seminal-boston-noise-rock-band-neptune-returns" Boston Compass. Retrieved 25 Dec 2023.
• Gretchen Hasse (December 3, 2007). "Electro-Harmonix Memory Man and Micro Synth are Keys to Neptune's Noise Kingdom". gearwire.com. Archived from the original on February 25, 2009. Retrieved 5 Feb 2009.
• Jed Heneberry (2008-02-15). "Neptune creates new instruments, album". Boston Music Spotlight. Archived from the original on February 25, 2009. Retrieved 5 Feb 2009.