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"Carnival Park might hail from the Philippines, but they sound more like a leisurely bike ride along the California coast. The playful sextet mixes a '90s SiestaPOP feel with a good shake of Japanese twee to get a light, sweet piece of cotton candy, complete with toy keyboard." --- Shelflife Records .

Lester Abrams formed the The Les Smith Soul Band (the Band would be renamed L.A. Carnival later) as Lester was developing the "Fabulous Impacts" and a reputation as "the baddest drummer in town", Leslie Orlando Smith (born 1949 in Detroit) was attending North High School and singing lead in the band "Sights and Sounds" with, amongst others, schoolmate Ron Cooley on guitar and a bass player from Central High, Rick Chudacoff. After a series of personnel and name changes, including the addition of Arno Lucas, they became the Les Smith Soul Band. After some time, Leslie invited Lester to a...

Carnival Art was formed in Los Angeles, CA the year of 1989. Founding members inlcuded frontman Michael T. Pak (Michael Petak) on vocals and guitar, Ed Dobrydnio on bass until 1991 and switched to guitar (was previously a member of Jane's Addiction but was replaced by Dave Navarro before the 1987 deput of their album "Nothing Shocking"), Keith Fallis on drums, Shane Paul Rhody on Guitar (left the band in 1990). After Shane Paul Rhody's leave in 1990, Carnival Art hired Brian Bell to play bass and Ed switched to playing the guitar. At the start of Carnival Art they...

"Precision detonations of mechanical gore slaughter and grinding horror!!!" Brutal goregrind/death metal from Netherlands. .

There are three bands by the name of "The Carnival": 1) Janis Hansen (10 October 1942 – 4 October 2017) formed The Carnival in late 1967 with fellow ex-Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 band member Jose Soares, along with ex-Murmaids/Kim Fowley protégé Terry Fischer ("Popsicles and Icicles"). The Carnival's Brasil '66-meets-The-Fifth-Dimension sound was largely the brainchild of legendary producer and engineer Bones Howe. Bones gathered L.A.'s finest "Wrecking Crew" studio musicians (Hal Blaine, Larry Knechtel, etc.) for the Carnival's sole album. 2) The Carnival is a Finnish hardcore punk from Finland. Their music is a mix of old school thrash...