Sid Yiddish

Expect the Unexpected

Torque Monks (2012)

Posted by on Jun 11, 2021

A serendipitous moment in time brought this trio (Sid Yiddish, Dr. Nothing & Wednesday Dalmatian) together briefly for 12 months. While the trio performed mostly in bars and festivals, its purpose mostly leaned toward modern day conspiracy idealism and free association performance. The band produced a total of three albums as a unit.

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Sid And His Minions (2010)

Posted by on Jun 11, 2021

This two-man band gave one performance only during an art festival in Chicago on May 31, 2010 & was a prelude to the present day Sid Yiddish And His Candy Store Henchmen. While Sid ranted and otherwise performed, Yitn Mitn Fidl accompanied Sid on violin.

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Clean Boys 2010-Present

Posted by on Jun 11, 2021

Technology. It’s what drives all of us in one form or another, having said that, Denmark was the least likely place I thought I would end up as the result of technology! The year was 2007 and I was still on MySpace. Six months earlier, i had just opened a YouTube account and uploaded my first video; a throat singing song of mine entitled Mykel Board Weasel Squeezer. It was sometime in late...

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Candy Store Henchmen 2010-Present

Posted by on May 8, 2021

In the early days in between rocks and caves, man created fire. He invented the wheel. He developed the birth of sound and noise. And from that frothy mix came forth on the tenth day of December in the year of our Lord 2010, the eventual creation of the universe, the Big Bang Theory and Sid Yiddish And His Candy Store Henchmen. And the world gasped. The Henchmen’s arsenal of instrumentation...

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Chicago Scratch Orchestra 2009-2012

Posted by on May 8, 2021

After a failed tryout with a sound-painting orchestra in 2005, Sid began gravitating toward a different sound: noise & free improvisation. Sid had already been going to noise and improvisation shows in Chicago and had been paying close attention to other bands with alternative sounds for the past decade, so this wasn’t any different with the exception being that the only requirement...

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