"[2] Kavus Torabi asserts "The music was co-written (by me) with Dan Chudley, and although we pretty much knew how we wanted the tunes to go before they were presented to the rest of the group, the songs would always be open to a few arrangement changes when we all worked on them.

Regular features of Monsoon Bassoon songs were male and female harmony vocals, swapping of the lead singer role, woodwind parts, polyrhythmic sections, time changes and unusual scales.

For example, their third single "The King of Evil" started as a gentle folk song, but ended with all three singers shouting in chorus over a death metal guitar part.

Kavus Torabi and Dan Chudley (both guitarists and singers) met in their mutual hometown of Plymouth, Devon, UK and first worked together in 1988 in the psychedelic thrash-metal band Die Laughing,[4] in which the two developed a tightly integrated and interlocking guitar style.

After Die Laughing split in 1993, Chudley formed the band Squid Squad in which he played with singing flute player/clarinettist Sarah Measures and drummer Jamie Keddie.

Torabi, Chudley, Measures and Keddie (along with bass player Laurie Osbourne) all relocated to Leyton, East London in 1994 and formed The Monsoon Bassoon.

By this time the band were developing a strong reputation on the London underground scene thanks to their powerful live act, now focussed into tighter songs, and had played on concert bills with Nub and Sidi Bou Said.

There was a writer called Simon Williams who runs Fierce Panda who discovered Coldplay, Super Furry Animals and so on, and he was really into us, so we had a moment of strange trendiness in amidst eight years of terminal untrendiness, you know?

Reviewing it, Robots And Electronic Brains described the Monsoon Bassoon as "the kind of band that Organ were calling pronk all those years ago: proggy bombast and stylistic excess welded to punk energy, thrill and speed.

No two consecutive bars are the same, the total antithesis of bands like Tortoise or Mogwai, there's loads of fiddly bits, a fidgetful beat, tons of influences and an archly British, eccentric theatrical edge...

Reviewing it, NME's Stevie Chick concluded "Slightly hamstrung by more than a few things, notably the fact that they don't live in Glasgow, they aren't on Digital Hardcore, they look like Club Dog roadies, they are completely and utterly skint and they have the lumpiest band name since Frottage Bunion, the fivesome nevertheless persist in making the most amazing alternative music...the most gorgeous, grotesque, explosive outbursts of noise witnessed since the madder bits of 'Come on Die Young' came round and ruined our woofers.

I Dig Your Voodoo... is psychedelic pop that has been hung, drawn and quartered only to be dipped into an acid pickle and served with a liberal helping of punk rock angst... Every spurt of sonic agitation is brimful of intent."

Comparing the music to Nomeansno, Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraser and Cardiacs, the review concluded that the album was "one fuck-off cosmic rock'n'roll sensation, with scant regard for the songwriting rulebook.

[11] Despite the positive response to their album, The Monsoon Bassoon did not get signed by any major labels to enable them to make the next step in scaling up their career.

Robots And Electronic Brains commented "Monsoon Bassoon offer up a blast of their patented blueprint of acid-powered sax abuse and corrugated rock.

[13]Many recordings from the band's last years remain unreleased, including a planned EP called My Kill Hand Never Felt So Good and the initial tracks for a second album provisionally entitled I Am The Master And You Are Coming With Me To Hell.

Guitarists (and principal composers) Dan Chudley and Kavus Torabi have sporadically worked together on several projects sharing much of the sound and spirit of their previous band.

The first of these was Miss Helsinki, a 2003 band with Richard Larcombe (bass, from Stars In Battledress) and with James Keddie drumming when available: the sound of the group was similar to that of The Monsoon Bassoon, but minus the woodwind/reeds and with considerably simpler song structures.

In 2005 Chudley, Torabi and Jamie Keddie reunited in a new rock band called Authority, this time with Craig Fortnam (North Sea Radio Orchestra, the Shrubbies, Lake Of Puppies) playing bass.

The band played several London concerts over the next two years and recorded several songs (available on their MySpace and SoundCloud [2] pages), but folded amicably in 2007 due to the members’ other commitments.

This band is made up of members of the London math rock and alt.folk scenes and mostly play re-workings of sea shanties (although their sense of humour and outside musical interests are evident in their sea-shantified cover of Iron Maiden's Stranger In A Strange Land).