Frondo Ediacar

"Frondo Ediacar and his Mighty Mighty Rangeomorphs" (Front album cover).

Frondo Ediacar is the stage name of paleontologist and musician [REDACTED].

Ediacar is known for his elaborate stage productions, including hermetically sealed performance spaces which replicate environmental conditions of the pre-Cambrian era.

Biography

• Early years - contributed to A Field Guide to Edible Theropods at the age of seven after surviving five weeks alone in the upper Cretaceous. He would later write about this experience in the song "Warm Blood Rules".

• Formed his first band of paleontologist-musicians, "Frondo Ediacar and his Mighty Mighty Rangeomorphs" at the age of fourteen.
  • The next day the band released their now-famous album of the same name to disappointing reviews.
  • The prestigious Journal of Aberrant Paleontology called the album "a seemingly random re-evaluation of well-established paleontological music theory."

• "Small Shelly Fauna" ... the "difficult nth album" (—Fell Swoop)

• Breakthrough and fame ... the Avalon Explosion album.

• Accusations of genetically engineering dinosaur-musicians in violation of musician's union contract, and subsequent retirement from the music-paleontology business.

• Release of controversial single "You Made Your Mistaken Point" — Virgin Records subsequently revokes its contract with Frondo Ediacar Research Associates, a heavy financial and emotional blow for [REDACTED]

• Solo work - commercially unsuccessful but critically acclaimed albums "Ocean Soup" and "Trilobite Blues" ... what music critic Fell Swoop called (in a rare moment of decency) "critically becalmed".

• Collaborations with Feral Butler and Neon Diatom ...

• Recent work ...

Discography

TO_DO - discography

Film and video

TO_DO - film and video

Fiction cross-reference

• Cretaceous Office Supplies
• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Neptune Slaughter
• Small Shelly Fauna (album)
• The Gnomon Chronicles Game

Nonfiction cross-reference

• [REDACTED] - model for Frondo Ediacar

External links

• Ediacaran @ Wikipedia
• Ediacaran biota @ Wikipedia
• Rangeomorph @ Wikipedia
• Small shelly fauna @ Wikipedia
• Avalon explosion @ Wikipedia
• Cambrian explosion @ Wikipedia
• End-Ediacaran extinction @ Wikipedia
• Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve