Midnight Peacocks is a collective of musicians from many different styles and backgrounds, brought together by composer, lyricist, vocalist and bass player Eitan Radoshinski at the summer of 2004 in their hometown of Tel Aviv Israel. Together they play music Radoshinski likes to define as "circus-core" – a crossover between hard-core, oriental and cabaret.
Radoshinski addresses in his music and lyrics issues such as obsession and fanaticism, which he believes to be at the core of the world's disharmony, in a style soaked with the schizophrenia and jolly Sinicism that come with the territory of life at the geographical point of friction between east and west.
The song opening Midnight Peacocks' debut album "IT'S A BRUTAL MACHINE" is titled "Just The Two Of Us" and tells the romantic story of a prophet guided by his belief to go to the most morally corrupt city (a.k.a NYC) and raze decadence to a new meaning (by becoming a transvestite prostitute, how else?) in order to serve as a human mark for the punishing bomb when it falls.
It's A Brutal Machine was recorded at Low Swing Studios in Berlin Germany under the producing hands of studio owner Guy Sterenberg in October 2004. The Album was mastered by Darius van Helfteren at Wisseloord Studios in Hiversum, The Netherlands. Midnight Peacocks started performing in October 2004 and has since played around 80 live concerts. It's A Brutal Machine release dates: Israel – 01..04..2006 ( www.earsayrecords.com), Germany – 01..06..2006 (www.phonector.de), USA – 01..06..2006 (www.phonector.com). The songs "Port Saeed", "Zombie Town", "Brutal Machine" and "Ganja To The Chairman" from the album have all been played by Israeli radio and TV, as well as indie radio stations, online radio and podcasts in Canada, Brazil, USA, Germany and the UK.
Radoshinski believes that any meeting between musicians on stage and a crowd is unique and can only be the same once. For that reason he tries to create a different experience in each and every live show rather than to duplicate a show in front of different crowds. This idea is kept by playing more or less the same materials, but with different musicians, instruments and vibes on every live show, giving constant new meanings to the recorded album. Midnight Peacocks played their music in many different locations ranging from an enchant cave in Jerusalem, where they played with 12 musicians on stage including violins, Darbuka drums, saxophone, and a performance artist, to clubs in Berlin were they performed with just Radoshinski on bass guitar and Haggay Fershtman on drums, and possibly almost any combination in between.
Radoshinski's musical influences range between Seattle Hard core group Melvins and Mike Patton's super group Mr. Bungle to Egyptian musician Mohamad Abdel Wahab.