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Disco Volante is the second studio album by Mr. Bungle, released on October 10, 1995, through Warner Bros. Records. If the band’s 1991 debut introduced their chaotic genre-hopping style, Disco Volante pushed it into far stranger territory. Drawing from death metal, jazz, Arabic music, musique concrète, klezmer, and easy listening, the record is often cited as their most experimental work. Its title, meaning “flying saucer” in Italian, references the yacht featured in the James Bond film Thunderball, which the band had covered live in their early days.
The album’s recording saw the band fracturing creatively, marking the final appearance of founding member Theo Lengyel. According to bassist Trevor Dunn, each member pursued increasingly abstract influences—from exotica and electro-acoustic music to Middle Eastern rhythms and tango—culminating in a dense, unpredictable sound. Songs like “Desert Search for Techno Allah,” “Violenza Domestica,” and “Merry Go Bye Bye” veer between cultural parody, genre deconstruction, and sheer noise. The lyrics, often fragmented or written in other languages, touch on isolation, violence, and decay, maintaining the band’s darkly comedic tone.
Critically, Disco Volante polarized listeners even more than its predecessor. AllMusic hailed it as “the musical equivalent of a David Lynch movie,” while Stylus Magazine praised its daring originality. Others, such as NME, dismissed it entirely. In retrospect, it stands as one of the most challenging and rewarding albums of the 1990s—an unclassifiable blend of chaos, virtuosity, and avant-garde vision that cemented Mr. Bungle’s reputation as one of rock’s most fearless and confounding bands.
TRACKLIST:
A1 Everyone I Went To High School With Is Dead
A2 Chemical Marriage
A3 Carry Stress In The Jaw
A4 The Secret Song
A5 Desert Search For Techno Allah
A6 Violenza Domestica
A7 After School Special
B1 Phlegmatics
B2 Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz
B3 The Bends
B4 Backstrokin'
B5 Merry Go Bye Bye
C1 None Of Them Knew They Were Robots
C2 Exitus
C3 The Holy Filament
C4 Sweet Charity
