Biography
From the http://operationspaceopera.bandcamp.com/ page:
A lot has been written about Weezer's "lost" rock opera that was initially intended to be their 2nd album, but eventually was discarded and distilled into 'Pinkerton' in 1996. If you're curious, read here:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_from_the_Black_Hole
This is a "Songs From The Black Hole" recreation, recorded from scratch, which incorporates material from all the released Rivers Cuomo demos, the full band Weezer demos for the project, the Pinkerton recordings, and information from the many pages of notes, lyrics and sheet music in "The Pinkerton Diaries" which was released last year (as well as a small amount of our own creative input). A bunch of people worked on this over a long period of time.
We recommend downloading rather than streaming if you want the full effect of the seamless transitions from one song to the next.
Perhaps I'll put up some more information about this later on.
credits
released 06 September 2012
Lead Vocals:
Jonas: Nick Walker
Maria: Allie Cornish
Laural: Beverly P. / Krista Mergist
Wuan: Felix Kern
Dondó: Marcel Messy
M-1: Doug Liggins
Additional vocals on tracks 3, 9, 11, 15, 16, 21, 23, 26, 27: Marcel Messy
Additional vocals on tracks 9, 23, 26: Felix Kern
Additional vocals on track 10: Jack Mergist
Additional vocals on track 15: Jack Allen
Drums, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Upright Piano, Synth, Organ, Percussion: Jack Allen
Clarinet: Andrew Bergman
Samples: Cody Lamie and Jack Allen
Produced by Operation Space Opera
Mixed by Jack Allen
Mastered by Jack Allen
Album Cover / Art Direction by J.R. Bechard
All songs by Rivers Cuomo (with a little additional work on tracks 7, 14, 22 by Operation Space Opera)
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.