Welcome to the world's first delegation! 


As Intergalactic Ambassadors from the planet FUN-Q we welcome you, humans of the planet Earth, to the first meeting between our peoples! We've come to spread peace, love, and the irresistible FUNK in the hopes of enlightening, inspiring, and groove-ifying all beings on your planet.

In other words, we're making a new album and we need your help!

More than just a music album

This project is unlike anything we've done before: a fully immersive concept album from start to finish, with multiple characters and voice acting by the band, story interludes, and of course kickass music featuring a full horn section (!!) and some of Portland's finest funk, jam, and jazz musicians joining us on keyboards, guitars, percussion, slide whistles, and gazorkaphone. Gazorkaphones are obviously imported from very far away, which is very costly, so your donations are greatly apprecaited!

Our story begins as our lively band of intergalactic misfits arrive on planet Earth aboard their spaceship, The Elastic Trans-Galactic Love Machine Express, and follows the extraterrestrials' journey through Earth's strange human culture. We zero in on a human boy, Young Timmy, lost in meaninglessness and despair who finds more commonality with the aliens than with his own human people. After a brief, eye-opening journey on the Love Machine Express, he packs up and joins the crew! And we invite all strange & beautiful folk to come along for the ride, and join us in celebration of art, community, and the FUNK.

With so much more than just the music to be produced and recorded a lot more studio time is needed. And, more time costs more money, which is why we're asking for donations so that we can make our (ambitious) artistic dreams a reality. It's not going to be possible without your help! 

The performers

We're really lucky to reside in such an excellent community of talented and supportive musicians here in Portland, OR. Unlike our previous albums, which have mostly featured just the performance of the immediate band members, we plan to involve many talented Portland players. We're looking for the big, in-your-face sound that can only be created when the artistic powers of a diverse crew of musical wizards join forces. Paying performers will be one of our largest expenses, and your donations help us pay these incredibly talented (and traditionally underpaid) artists and keep them well fed and ready to funk!

Here are some of sounds we'd like to bring along for the ride:

Saxophone
Trombone
Trumpet
Percussion
Female background vocal choir
Electric clavinet
Rhodes piano
Hammond B3 Organ
Synthesizer

The songs

Very much like a musical theater show, each of the 8 songs that we have written exist in the world we've created and are sung by the imagined crew members of The Elastic Trans-Galactic Love Machine Express. In addition to these tunes we have several musical interludes, which are grooves and funky hooks which will serve as the background of our characters' exposition segments. All in all, the album looks like it'll be more than an hour long. 

We've been working hard on this music, and many of these songs have been floating around the band's collective slice of brainspace for a couple years, and it's exciting to get a chance to bring them to life in this creative, story-telling style. Doing so will require us to work harder and longer than we have before, adding more layers, musical interludes, and other creative elements, and it's not going to be possible without your donations. Mega thanks in advance for your support!

Meet the crew

Ickus, Mystical Guru
With a heart of gold and the ears of a giant monkey, Ickus dispenses often indecipherable wisdom to any and all that will listen.

Arcturus Nebulanus, Spiritual Advisor
The leader of our Intergalactic Mission of Love and Peace, Acturus might come on a little strong but he means well. His far out vision of Universal Cosmic Love led us to Earth.

Cosmo, Scientist & Chief Astrofunkologist
Inventor of the faster-than-light Funkoflop technology that powers our spaceship, Cosmo is a brainiac with a funk transplant, always ready to dispense needed (or not!) facts and insight. 

YOU
We want you to join our crew! This project is not going to get off the ground if we don't get a whole bunch of folks like you to chip in and support us. Even if you can only contribute $5 or $10, your donation helps make the difference that makes our project possible. We have some really cool rewards as our way of saying THANK YOU for your support, and we hope you'll check them out!

Get a signed copy of the album...and a whole lot more!

We've put together a lot of really cool rewards for donations, including (of course!) some rad merch, T-shirts, access to our high quality live audio archive, homemade dinner with the band, songwriting, and more. (Make sure you scroll all the way down on the page, there's a lot of 'em.) We're going all in on this project, and we hope you can come through big with a generous donation!Even if you can only donate $5 or $10, each dollar is one step closer to making our intergalactic musical dreams come true!

Final thoughts

Here are some final thoughts courtesy of our own Spiritual Advisor, Arcturus Nebulanus:

"The exchange of vanity for the love of others is not a conscious process but one that is wrested upon us by the fully developed consumerist state, which has implanted our natural-born, communal-seeking minds with alien and terrestrial consumptive desires, the likes of which have not been heretofore experienced by animals in the Prime.

The multi-verse is real here today. We are all different faces of the same being - human, FUN-Qin, dolphin alike - each of us sharing the same base reality but altered in appearance, personality, and outcomes by variations in lived experience and inherited foundationals."
 

THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!! WE LOVE YOU!

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