Album Notes

Millions of years ago, a magnificent green ray of light came out of the sky down to Earth. Filled with other-worldly powers, it remained dormant until one dark night, a few friends saw a green glow beneath the desert sand. The green power was released to them and Slushbox was formed.
Now Slushbox, a super-sonic rock band powered by the green light, races through the galaxy in a tomato spaceship.

They survive on an ample supply of pomegranates and the love of those they meet along their journeys.

Their mission is to visit other worlds and share the stories of their intergalactic expeditions with grooves and melodies,
and prospecting the idea that the galaxy always has the cure.

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PRESS RELEASE
Slushbox, Truly Green

Just take a look at their new CD, “Dagga Goo”, and you will see that rock band Slushbox honors green. The entire CD package is BRIGHT green. Songs such as “Dry Spots”, “Messages”, and “Rust”, express wonder of the great outdoors and environmental and social awareness. “One-Celled Animal” and “Octapus on Broadway” are whimsical celebrations of creatures rarely seen but always around. “Tomato” and “Pomegranate” confirm that lyricist/singer Sharon Giarratano is a disciple of farmers’ markets, and she offers, “All of the songs were inspired by observing Nature, and come from my reverence for the natural world”.

You are invited to ponder the meaning of the title track “Dagga Goo” which features synthesizer work and production by Michael Bacich of Oingo Boingo fame. And don’t miss the recycled eighteen minute reprise “Track 11” offering a trip not unlike the Beatles “White Album” but on the green side. You can find more about Slushbox and their ultra bright
greenaliscious rock and roll CD “Dagga Goo” at: www.slushbox.net

early days article, below:

The Hot And Heavy Songs Of Slushbox

Author: Steve Irsay
Date: July 18, 2005
Publication: Downtown Gazette, The (Long Beach, CA)
Page: 29

When singer Sharon Giarratano and guitarist Mark Wheeler began performing 12 years ago as a punk-folk duo, they co-opted their first initials into the cheeky stage name S&M. Soon, they added a drummer and the trio became known as, well, 3sum. Now the double entendre-loving duo is back as the creative nucleus of an avant-pop outfit called Slushbox (whatever that really means...).

All this innuendo of course begs the question: are these two unassuming Belmont Heights artist-types really this kinky?

“What does it sound like to you?” New Orleans native Giarratano cooed with a verbal wink-wink, nudge-nudge. “All the connotations could flyŠ or not.”

Giarratano and Wheeler delight in keeping folks guessing with double meanings, from the naughty band names to their own are-they-or-aren’t-they relationship status. (Friends? Lovers? Bondage buddies?).

Now they are toying with duality musically in Slushbox, a seemingly innocent quirky pop trio with some serious messages about environmental deterioration and survival of the species.

“I don’t want every song to be a downer,” Giarratano is quick to add. “A lighter sound and presentation seems to appeal to a lot of people.”

Credit for the band’s Oingo Boingo meets B-52’s bounce goes to Wheeler, a largely self-taught player who coaxes beautifully off-kilter colors from his guitar courtesy of his own super-special alternate tuning that lets him shift seamlessly from rumbling rhythms to singing melodies.

“I dabble in sounds and sound textures,” he said. “I am sort of creating things by ear.”

With drummer Terry Frost nailing things down with a rhythmic pound, Giarratano slides in with a soaring Exene Cervenka minus the pitch problems delivery. A recent graduate of UCLA Ethnomusicology program, she intersperses her socially conscious lyrics with intermittent electronic blips and percussive splashes.

“I am the slushy part of the music — I dabble in a lot,” she explained. “Mark and Terry are the box. It’s hard to put slush in a box without it leaking. But that is what we are trying to do.”