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TOTTER is co-produced Totter Todd and Cochrane Mcmillan. The project uses live, looped, and sampled instruments and sounds. Totter uses the throat, the guitar, the keys, the laptop, and a homemade instrument named Excaliber in his live performance. He has been known to perform with the sax and flute within a live scenerio, as well. Both Cochrane and Totter are multi-instrumentalists and producers within the framework of TOTTER. The live show is a melding of "live" and "electronic" instruments. Currently Fkir Elderfae has been a core participant in the sonics.
Whether performing in intimate settings as a solo or duo act, or teaming up with others for spectacular theatrical events, TOTTER is a musical experience not to be missed.
About
TOTTER is currently teaming up with BAD UNKL SISTA (www.badunklsista.com), a performance, costuming, and installation piece ensemble steeped in the Japanese art of BUTOH and more. This project, appropriately entitled BAD UNKL TOTTER uses butoh inspired movements, costumes, and live video play while TOTTER interacts with sound, movement, and costumes, creating a theatrical and musical event for all the senses.
Totter Todd has performed, composed for, produced, arranged, engineered, and/or recorded with such acts as:
- A new project produced by Dr.ISRAEL which includes BERNIE WORELL (P-Funk/Parliament)
- BILL LASWELL (TABLA BEAT SCIENCE/PRAXIS/METHOD OF DEFIANCE)
- DR.KNOW (BAD BRAINS):
- STREISAND AND ONASSIS (A project with the legendary Big Mama Fitzgerald where Streisand (Totter) sings melodically as Onassis (Big Mama) dies a slow death in a posh New York hotel room)(saxophone/flute http://home.earthlink.net/~bigmamafitzgerald/index.html);
- TOTTER TODD AND THE WELL TEMPERED PLAYERS (vocals/ saxophone/flute/writing/arranging/engineering) www.myspace.com/thewelltemperedplayers
- KATAKO AND THE CONGO VIBES (saxophone/vocals Zaire and Germany)
- The infamous FERAL (guitar/vocals/producing)
- KEVENS (saxphone/vocals/flute/synthisyzers www.kevens.com)
- HEAVYWEIGHT DUB CHAMPION (www.championnation.net)
- THE MANDALA OLIVE PROJECT (composing/scoring/sound design/live performance)
- THE CAPTAIN'S PANTS SHOW (composing/scoring/sound design/live performance/lead acting)
- TIFFANY PFIEFER (saxophone/flute/arranging www.myspace.comtiffanypfiefer)
- TOTTER (vocals/guitar/saxophone/synth/composing/arranging)www.myspace.com/tottermusic)
Totter Todd has shared the stage with: KRS ONE, Tricky, DJ Spooky, Alpha Blondie, Souls of Mischief, Steel Pulse, Jimmy Cliff, Gregory Isaacs, Lords of Acid, Boukman Experyans, H.R. of Bad Brains,Lee "Scratch" Perry, Luciano, Andrew Tosh, Dr.Israel, Long Beach Dub All Stars, J Boogie Dubtronic Science, Ziggy Marley, Sly and Robbie, Stanton Warrior, Mark Farina, Micheal Franti and Spearhead, Toots and the Maytals, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Blackeyed Peas, Michael Rose, The Pharcyde, Dub Syndicate, Space Girl, Majek Fashek, Mad Professor, Burning Spear, The Skatalites, Pato Banton, Les Claypool, The Last Emperor, Ozomatli, Sinead O'Conner, Don Carlos, Lee Combs, DB, Aphrodite, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Living Legends, The Roots, Sound Tribe Sector Nine, Eek-A-Mouse, Zap-Mama, Bassnectar, Lyrics Born, Culture, Third World, Katako, Charlie Hunter, Wailing Souls, Steve Kimock, Sean Paul, Anthony B, Bluetech, Damian Marley, Rabbit in the Moon, Sasha and Digweed, and The Chemical Brothers.
Totter Todd regularly tours internationally with the trip-hop dubtronica outfit HEAVYWEIGHT DUB CHAMPION, of which he has been a member of since 1998, as well as THE WELL TEMPERED PLAYERS, TOTTER, and KEVENS.
Totter Todd has worked on four releases under HDCs (CHAMPION NATION RECORDINGS). ~Survival Guide for the End of Time ~Rise, which features KRS-ONE, Killah Priest of the WU-TANG CLAN, dub legend DR.ISRAEL, APOSTLE, and STERO-LION. ~APOSTLE, the solo album for the Bay Area/Denver hip-hop artist and~Dub Sessions Vol.1 and an instrumental HDC album. He self-released "COMPULSION'S WIDOWS" by THE WELL TEMPERED PLAYERS. He is featured on up-coming releases from TIFFANY PFEIFER, KEVENS, and a project with BILL LASWELL, BERNIE WORELL, and DR.KNOW produced by Dr. ISRAEL.



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