New York City-based multi-instrumentalist and poet Drew Gardner creates wild, spontaneous conductions of improvised music played by indie rock, jazz and classical players and fuses it with the outrageous poetry known as Flarf. Gardner has painstakingly edited this compilation from several live recordings into a suite of music and poetry that goes from post-rock to free jazz to minimalism and back again, with an atmosphere that is mesmerizing and riotous by turns. Flarf Orchestra is one of several configurations from Gardner's Poetics Orchestra project, dedicated to combining the arts of music and poetry. He uses a unique conduction system of cards and hand-signals. Gardner often combines different types of musicians in his groups: rock, jazz, classical and folk. The players on Flarf Orchestra include indie rock guitar player Franklin Bruno (from the Mountain Goats) classical piano player John Orfe (from Alarm Will Sound), and jazz players Ehran Elisha, Avram Fefer, and Adam Lane. The nine Flarf poets include writers from all around the US and a poet from Iceland. The Flarf poets use collaged texts gathered from Google search results to create poetry. Drew Gardner is a pioneer of the Flarf poetry movement and a multi-instrumentalist. He spent his early years as a punk rock and avant-garde jazz drummer. He has written three books of poetry, the latest of which is Chomp Away (Combo). This is his debut CD. Musicians: Frankin Bruno (el. guitar), Michael Clayville (trombone), Ty Cumbie (guitar), Katie Degentesh (el. bass), Buck Downs (ac. guitar), Ehran Elisha (drums), Avram Fefer (clarinet), Jamie Gaughran-Perez (el. guitar), Adam Good (el. bass), Paras Kaul (brainwave music), Rodney Koeneke (percussion), Adam Lane (bass), John McClellan (drums), Eiríkur Örn Nor∂dahl (el. guitar), John Orfe (piano), Lesley Poirier (percussion), John Pickford Richards (viola), Dave Ross (el. guitar), Kate Sheeran (french horn), Rod Smith (kazoo), Elisabeth Stimpert (clarinet), Gary Sullivan (keyboard), Ryan Walker (ac. guitar), Gregory Wildes (alto sax)