Balloon Bass

Balloon Bass - Air, Rubber and Soul

The balloon bass is a musical instrument made of one round balloon and two skinny (twisting) balloons... The balloon bass is a three-and-one-half octave instrument, costs about $.15 to make, and can last for months at a time. Sean Rooney devised the principle of the balloon resonator in 1992 and invented an instrument he called the balloon guitar. He showed Addi Somekh how to make the resonator one afternoon in 2000 in Montreal. Since then, Addi has made various modifications on Sean's original design, developing more of a bass-type instrument. People encountering the balloon bass for the first time are often struck by how such a strange and simple contraption can produce such a variety of sounds (including very low bass notes) and by the fact that one can really play tunes on it...

Yeah, this guy Addi Somekh really plays a balloon, and it's really good.
The album is sort of like a free form sound piece, with guest musicians and vocalists on each track.
There's no real set genre in this album, if I had to generalize I'd say jazz, but there are also blues and ambient pieces. Even one that features a theremin about 90% of the time.
Overall this is a solid album, if only for the novelty of listening to an album that's based on a balloon.
Definitely check this one out.