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Phish played the second series of their Halloween show in Las Vegas as a Scandinavian progressive rock band called Kasvot Växt. The band played their only album, I rokk, and translated together Kasvot Växt and I rokk means "Faceplant into rock."
For more than a decade, Phish has generally used his Halloween shows to cover all other artists 'albums (the tradition began in 1994 with the complete reproduction of the Beatles' "White Album"). On Wednesday, the group achieved a new complex round that included not only the "wallet", but also a Twitter account, an artist page on All Music and an album review on WFMU.
By JamBase, the fans who entered the show had received a fake Playbill (renamed "Phishbill"), which included an extensive essay on Kasvot Växt, as well as some phish quotations from Phish members (the program also included a fake commercial of Trey Anastasio shilling for SoulCycle). "Every time Halloween is discussed, we are talking about Kasvot Växt," says Anastasio in the program. "Honestly, we feared we could not afford to succeed or do justice to the sound, but in the end, we just could not resist any longer."
JamBase explained that Phish had delivered "an ambitious sequel to Phish's original music played in the manner of a progressive 80's rock band" which "still contains elements of the Vermont-born quartet's distinctive sound."
After the show, the fans began to gather the impressive range of the joke. WFMU, the beloved independent radio station in New Jersey, has quietly published a review of I rokk, treating the disc as an exhausted holy grail for the crate diggers (they even slapped a date of publication of "January 14, 2005" for a good move). In addition, music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote a short biography of Kasvot Växt on AllMusic.com, while Perfect Sound Forever published an in-depth "interview" with band member Georg Guomundrson.
On Twitter, Kasvot Växt even thanked Phish for the Halloween decor: "There is no Scandinavian word to describe how much we are sorry for the obscure American group Pfish who chose to share his Magnum Opus with his friends.
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