Brace for boar-dom, Les Claypool-style

Les Claypool must really like mushrooms. And pigs.

A couple of projects on those two subjects led to his latest musical descent into madness, “Of Fungi and Foe.”

Released in mid-March, “Of Fungi and Foe” is an expansion of the music the Primus bassist composed for the “Mushroom Men” video game for Nintendo’s Wii, as well as the bizarre, dark comic horror film “Pig Hunt.”

The video game centers around a comet that passes the Earth, giving sentience to the planet’s tiny plants and fungi and leading to inch-high wars between the aggressive Amanitas and the inventive Morels.

The “Pig Hunt” movie is about a wild pig hunting trip that is turned inside out by a 3,000-pound wild boar that terrorizes the marijuana fields of Northern California.

Having worked on both projects simultaneously over the last few years, Claypool decided to merge the two worlds on one weirdly twisted recorded reality.

But that’s not too surprising from the leader of the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade and the dude who wrote the theme song to “South Park.” In fact, Claypool said the music for the album came pretty effortlessly and plentiful.

“Obviously the makers of the ‘Mushroom Men’ game and ‘Pig Hunt’ film were aware of my tastes and perspectives because the music oozed from me in a such a natural way that I believe it came as much from my pores as it did my mind,” Claypool says in a news release.

“This music became the foundation of the songs that fill this collection. With a few added tidbits and bit of gypsy sauce …”

“Of Fungi and Foe” contains extended versions of songs that appeared in the video game and film played by an impressive studio band which included Paulo Baldo (Cake) on drums, Mike Dillon (Ani DiFranco) on percussion and Sam Bass (Deadweight) on cello.

There’s also a recording of an improvisational jam session with Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz.

With an electric bass style that rubs off Geddy Lee of Rush, Chris Squire of Yes and Larry Graham of Sly of the Family Stone, Claypool is an eccentric master of his instrument, fusing finger taps and slaps with funky flamenco strumming.

In addition to his early work with Primus and his freaky Frog Brigade, Claypool has been a lightning rod for the weird, working as novelist, film director, actor, music producer and multi-instrumentalist.

His various projects include the supergroup C2B3 (Colonel Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains), featuring guitar phenom Buckethead, Parliament and Talking Heads keyboardist Bernie Worrell, and Primus drummer Bryan Mantia.

Claypool’s first book, “South of the Pumphouse,” in the vein of Hunter S. Thompson, is in its seventh printing.

Least year he released his first feature film, “Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo,” a mockumentary comparable to “This is Spinal Tap.”