New Outgrabe Live Recordings From the Archives - 1995

Before the college radio hits, the international airplay, and the film festivals and awards, Outgrabe was a small group of opera nerds who wandered the streets of San Francisco, accompanied by a homeless guitarist, a violinist who had just been kicked out of boarding school, and a long-haired conga player.

Here are three songs from a live performance at the Artist's Cafe in the Mission District of San Francisco, in late 1995.

San Francisco Dreamin' mp3 - Our little spoof

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Rocks The World mp3- Our eco-mama song, never before released in recorded form.

All Along The Watchtower mp3 -We ezagged around the Jimi Hendrix Experience with our wah-wah violinist. Bonus feature: first public mention of "Outgrabe."

Outgrabe single and video: "My America"

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"Love Cream Pie" music video in film festivals worldwide

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Featuring Chloe Calaveras, the Suicide Girls, and womyn of all kinds.Interested in naked hurdle-jumping? This is for you. Now in film festivals in Brasil, Cairo, Florence. Honolulu, Thailand, and, yes, Des Moines. Winner of "Best Avant Garde Film" in El Sawy Inernational Film festival, in Cairo, Egypt.

TV interview with San Francisco film critic Jan Wahl

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Christopher St. John appears on film critic Jan Wahl's live morning show and discusses the Outgrabe music video "Canta Succubi," which played at the 2006 AOL Latino Film festival and two San Francisco film festivals in 2007.

"Canta Succubi" music video in U.S. film festivals

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Filmed on location in Vinjales, Cuba, then animated. Seen in the 2007 San Francisco International Arts Festival, the 9th Annual San Francisco Black Film Festival, and 2006 AOL Latino Film Festival.

"Almost Home" video in film fests in Africa and Europe

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Nightmare with a man, a monster, a woman, and a shotgun. As seen in the Golden Lion Film Festival in Mbabane, Swaziland, the Moondance Film Festival in Hollywood, USA, the DigiFestival in Florence, Italy, the Planet Ant Film Festival in Detroit, USA, and others.

"Bullet the Blue Sky" - Outgrabe CD

"St. John's and Calaveras' lavish sounds and vocal harmonies pulsate positive energy in synch." -- Dnevnik, Novi Sad, Serbia

"City of God" - Outgrabe CD

"A must-have for Rodney Crowell or Cruzeros fans, this disc tempts you from the fringes between mainstream and alt-country with a touch of funk and psychedelia." --Stylus Magazine, Winnipeg, Canada

"Love in the Time of War " - Outgrabe CD

"Outgrabe has the ability to sound like LA punk legends X at some points and Heart at others." -- Zero Magazine, San Jose, USA

"Love & Death " - Outgrabe CD

"If English minstrels used buzzing electric guitars and borrowed heathen ululation, they might sound something like Outgrabe, if they weren't burned as witches first." -- Express, Oakland, USA