Alt-musician Les Claypool [ tickets ] has unveiled a short selection of winter dates early next year in support of his most recent solo set, "Of Fungi and Foe."

The Primus bassist, who will ring in 2010 with a New Year's Eve (12/31) performance in San Francisco, will hit the road for a solo excursion beginning Feb. 12 in Aspen, CO. Claypool will wrap up the seven-date trek, which focuses on the Midwest and parts of the West Coast, with a Feb. 20 gig in Eugene, OR, before heading across the pond for a month-long European run.

The full US itinerary is shown below, while information about the international dates can be found at his website.

"Of Fungi and Foe," Claypool's most recent release and second solo effort, hit shelves in March. The set features a guest jam session with Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz, and was inspired by a pair of soundtrack projects that Claypool recently participated in.

"Sometime back, I was commissioned to write soundtrack music for two projects that promised to have quite a bit of very intense and unique imagery," Claypool wrote on his website. "One was for an interactive game about a meteor that hits Earth and brings intelligence to the mushrooms within the crash proximity, and the other was about a 3,000-pound wild boar that terrorizes the marijuana fields of Northern California."

"Obviously, the makers of the subsequent 'Mushroom Men' game and 'Pig Hunt' film were very aware of my tastes and perspectives, because the music oozed from me in such a natural way that I believe it came as much from my pores as it did my mind. This music became the foundation of the songs that fill this collection."

The March release follows Claypool's 2006 effort, "Of Whales and Woe," which was his first solo studio record. Since that album, he has also issued the 2007 "Fancy" DVD, which documents his 2006 solo tour, and last year's "National Lampoon presents Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo," a feature-length mockumentary about jam bands.