"This local combo, if it is one, offers a Residents/DEVO/Beefheart instrumental weirdness of, yeah, more psycho-cirkus sounds (pump organ, marimbas, sinister waltz times) but spills into medieval noir, samurai pizzicato, Turkish sambas and a Roman holiday on ice. It can take you some place unclean and enlightening." -LA WEEKLY The Ebola Music Orchestra is a 10-piece ensemble headed by musical director Ego Plum that combines the cartoon jazz of Raymond Scott & Carl Stalling (Warner Bros. Cartoon Musical Director) with a spastic post-punk energy, the haunting beauty of Danny Elfman & Nino Rota, and the innovative and creative spirit of art rockers the Residents, DEVO and Oingo Boingo. The result is a dark, carnival-esque, surrealist, pop sound that is difficult to classify. Much like Carl Stalling, Ego Plum takes his horns, accordions, and distorted guitars and weaves them through various musical ideas while seamlessly crossing genres in the process. Beautiful arrangements are often deconstructed into organized chaos. This ensemble does not rely on nostalgia. This is a post-pop group performing the sound of the not-too-distant future! The music serves as the underscore to projected big screen montages of unsettling & surrealist imagery that play in sync to the live performance, making a live performance a multimedia experience of moving images and music and story telling. The current line up includes Ego Plum on vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, glockenspiel, melodica and percussion. Aaron Cohen on piano, organ, celeste, synthesizers and samplers. Andrew Duncan on trumpet and percussion. Rey Perez on drums, cymbals and electronic percussion. Eddie Rivas on tenor saxophone and percussion. Steve Sarmiento on electric bass and vocals. Roderick Cumming on electric guitar. Adam Liebreich-Johnsen on Bass Trombone. Ego Plum's Ebola Music Orchestra has garnered attention from the LOS ANGELES TIMES, MAXIM'S BLENDER, NEWTIMES LA, LA WEEKLY, as well as international publications like the UK's BIZARRE, France's FHM, CRASH, and Romania's Art & Design Journal OCTOGON. He's been interviewed by radio stations from Canada to the U.S. and has been featured on television programs like NBC's EXTRA!, and Britain's Channel 4 show, FREAK OUT!