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Les Claypool will release yet another brilliant work of art, OF FUNGI AND FOE, March 17, 2009 on Prawn Song Records.

“OF FUNGI AND FOE” is the expansion of material Claypool has recorded over the past few years for the video game Mushroom Men and the motion picture Pig Hunt. Being inspired by these 2 projects Claypool decided to keep creating and turn it into an album. The song Mushroom Men on this release is a more in depth version of the theme song from the video game. Additionally a jam session with Gogol Bordello s charismatic front-man Eugene Hutz turned into the track Bite Out Of Life.

Since his last album release, 2006 s Of Whales and Woe, Claypool has been busy with his films, scoring other s films and video games while having fun out on tour. This album is a collection of songs inspired by the projects he has been working on over the past few year.

Long acknowledged as one of rock’s leading bassists, Claypool began branching out from the alt-rock sound of Primus in 2000, starting Colonel Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, courting the jam band audience and beyond. Selling over 500,000 cd’s since then under a few different band names (including Oysterhead with the Police’s Stewart Copeland and Trey Anastasio of Phish), Claypool put out the career spanning DVD 5 Gallons of Diesel in 2005 and the live tour DVD Fancy in 2007.

TRACK LISTING:
1. Mushroom Men
2. Amanitas
3. Red State Girl
4. Booneville Stomp
5. What Would Sir George Martin Do
6. you Can t Tell Errol Anything
7. Bite Out Of Life * Featuring Eugene Hutz
8. Kazoo
9. Primed by 29
10. Pretty Little Song
11. Of Fungi And Foe
12. Ol Rosco

Les will be on tour in support of this release on the Oddity Faire

TOUR DATES CONFIRMED:

3/4/2009
San Diego, CA
House Of Blues
Yard Dogs

3/6/2009
Las Vegas, NV
House Of Blues
Yard Dogs

3/7/2009
Los Angeles, C
Palladium
Mutaytor Saul Williams, Yard Dogs

3/8/2009
Lake Tahoe, NV
Montbleu Theatre
Yard Dogs, Saul Williams

3/10/2009
Portland, OR
Roseland
Yard Dogs Saul Williams

3/11/2009
Seattle, WA
Showbox SODO
Saul Williams, Yard Dogs

3/13/2009
Salt Lake City, UT
Depot
Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3

3/14/2009
Denver, CO
Fillmore
Yard Dogs,Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3

3/16/2009
Kansas City, MO
Beaumont
Devotchka, Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3

3/17/2009
St. Louis, MO
Pageant
Devotchka, Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3

3/19/2009
Minneapolis, MN
Myth
Devotchka, Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3

3/20/2009
Milwaukee, WI
Rave
Devotchka, Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3

3/21/2009
Chicago, IL
Riviera
Devotchka, Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3

3/22/2009
Cleveland, OH
Agora
Devotchka, Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3

3/24/2009
Toronto, ON
The Guvernment
Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3

3/26/2009
Boston, MA
House Of Blues
Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3, O’Death

3/27/2009
Philadelphia, PA
Electric Factory
Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3, O’Death

3/28/2009
New York City
Terminal 5
Saul Williams, O’Death Secret Chief 3

For more information go to www.lesclaypool.com or www.myspace.com/thereallesclaypool