Ganesha is a small collective of experimental-yet unpretentious-Montreal musicians. Formed in early 1996 under several ridiculous names, the group finally settled upon Ganesha after the two mainstays viewed a large mural that incorporated the Hindu deity in a New York museum. The band plays to tape, "writes" no music, and performs no live shows. Largely instrumental, the group does produce many homemade albums of strung-together pastiches. The "songs" have no beginning or end and flow into each other, the end result is an album that is more like one piece. The band has had two steady official members, but has played with dozens of supporting band members over the years. Ganesha incorporates any and all instruments at their disposal (ordinary, non conventional, homemade alike). The music produced is often hypnotic and disorienting, which led to the coining of the term "Ganubis Effect".

The lack of vocals allows the band to name songs and albums anything they wish. Often absurd or nonsensical, the band takes many of them from literature (Louis-Ferdinand Céline,Sherwood Anderson, Fyodor Dostoevsky); art (Paul Klee, Franz Marc; Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space);

Discography

Albums

• Shiva (1997)
• Anubis: Jackal God of Death (1997)
• Ganubis (A Drug) (1997)
• Bird in Space (1999)
• Citra (G-Sides)(1998)
• Babygnyu (G-Sides II) (1998)
• Mirtha (G-Sides III) (1999) (see Mithras)
• Dersu (1999) (see Dersu Uzala)
• Ganesia (2000)
• Eu: God of Water (C-Sides) (2001)
• Die Planeten (The Spacey Album) (2002) (see The Planets)
• Horseytown (2002)
• Uma (2003) (see Uma (goddess))
• Horsehead Nebula: Notes from the Umaground (2004)
• Bird in Space (2005 reissue with new tracks)
• Kali and the Million Black Fires of Dissolution (in progress, 2006)

Compilations

• Titled? (1996)
• Side Three (1997)
• Cloudy Dog Tapes Audio #9 (a) - Drummers, Hooters & Boomers (1998)
• Cloudy Dog Tapes Audio #9 (b) - All That The Vacuum Misses (2000)
• Out/Side 4: The Founding of Eridu (2000)
• 1157 Days In Hotel Yesterday (2001)
• Cloudy Dog Tapes Audio #9 (c) - Useless Gadgets & Fireless Smoke (2002)