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Miles Perkin

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About Me

A Canadian musician from Brandon, Manitoba who uses a unique combination of conventional, extended and invented techniques along with a vast collection of unconventional tools such as hair-clips, barbecue skewers, chopsticks, cotton swabs, clothespins, homemade capos and other invesnted or found objects to coax a seemingly unlimited palate of sounds from his double bass.

RELEASES (availiable at milesperkin.com)

APOSIOPESIS (2008) solo
THE GUESSING GAME (2008) w/ Common Thread
COMMON THREAD (2005 Ombu Productions)

and coming very soon...
duo CD with French pianist Benoit Delbecq

For more info please visit www.milesperkin.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/10/2006
Band Website: milesperkin.com
Band Members: SOLO
Miles Perkin: kontrabass . vox . electronics

COMMON THREAD
Erik Hove: flute . alto saxophone
Chet Doxas: clarinet . tenor saxophone
Sarah Page: harp
Joe Grass: pedal steel . guitar . dobro . mandolin
Thom Gossage: drums . percussion
Miles Perkin: bass . vox . pens

PERKIN . DELBECQ
Benoit Delbecq: piano . prepared piano
Miles Perkin: bass

LAUZIER . PERKIN . KUSTER
Philippe Lauzier: alto/soprano saxophones . bass clarinet
Robbie Kuster: drums . percussion
Miles Perkin: bass

To check other projects, please visit my friends Thom Gossage, Erik Hove, Jorane, Jason Sharp, Lhasa, Joe Grass, and Brad Barr.
Influences: My biggest influence: A glorious day in 1984 when Gerald Perkin brought home a drum set for his 4 year old son.
Sounds Like: "a kaleidoscope of post-bop music that speaks of experimentation and broad vision" Irwin Block, Montreal Gazette

"COMMON THREAD counts as one of the strongest Canadian jazz debuts in years." Nate Dorward, CODA magazine
Type of Label: None

My Blog

APOSIOPESIS: a solo CD coming in March

APOSIOPESIS (definition): The rhetorical devise by which the speaker or writer deliberately breaks a thought and leaves something unexpressed, but yet obvious, to be supplied by the immagina...
Posted by Miles Perkin on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:06:00 PST