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Loto Ball is best known for his work singing and performing for San Francisco Bay Area
death-punk band The Phantom Limbs. During his time with The Phantom Limbs (in which
he was sometimes known as “Hopeless”), Loto Ball’s visceral expression of existential distress
laced with black comedy, helped earned them countless amounts of praise. After years of
touring nonstop, Loto Ball left the Limbs in 2005 to move to Chicago and pursue other
ventures. Loto Ball has spent his time in Chicago working with local artists on various
projects, including founding an art gallery/music venu ...read more
Loto Ball is best known for his work singing and performing for San Francisco Bay Area
death-punk band The Phantom Limbs. During his time with The Phantom Limbs (in which
he was sometimes known as “Hopeless”), Loto Ball’s visceral expression of existential distress
laced with black comedy, helped earned them countless amounts of praise. After years of
touring nonstop, Loto Ball left the Limbs in 2005 to move to Chicago and pursue other
ventures. Loto Ball has spent his time in Chicago working with local artists on various
projects, including founding an art gallery/music venue (Reversible Eye), collaborating on a
800 foot public mural (Bloomingdale Trail), personal masseuse for Mayor Richard Daley,
performing with puppets (Scary Toesies), working as an activist for disability rights and
quality of life issues, as well playing trumpet for a 30-person marching band (Mucca Pazza).
Loto Ball created the Loto Ball Show in 2005. It has taken on many forms, but has now
evolved into an energetic rock band that screams out much of the same ferocity as The
Phantom Limbs but brings in more variety in mood, more shifts in volume and pace, and
more eclectic sounds: A key-board driven form of No-Wave post-punk with hints of jazz
syncopation and Middle-Eastern scales. FEAR IT. « hide |
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