Member Since: 10/22/2006
Band Website: philipgayle.com
Influences: influences? Some are, some are what i am listening to right now....but i do know that i like them all!!! Yargh!
A (pronounced "AH"), Abe Kaoru???, King Sunny Ade, Akutagawa Ryunosuke?????, Susan Alcorn, AMM, Animal Collective, Araki Nobuyoshi????, Louis Armstrong, Erich Avinger, Milton Babbitt, Joan Baez, Derek Bailey, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Bela Bartok, Count Basie, The Beatles, Beck, Beethoven, Jorge Ben, Han Bennink, Bjork, Bonnie Blair, Rob Blair, Art Blakey, Pierre Boulez, David Bowie, Anthony Braxton, Peter Brotzmann, Earle Brown, James Brown, Buffalo Springfield, William S. Burroughs, David Byrne, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Eugene Chadbourne, Ray Charles, Don Cherry, Noam Chomsky, Clancy Brothers, cLOUDDEAd, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, David Crosby, e.e. cummings, Miles Davis, Claude Debussy, Morris Dees, James Dillon, Eric Dolphy, Donto, DoseOne, Dr. John, Jean Dubuffet, Isadora Duncan, Bob Dylan, Ebisu Yoshikazu????, Duke Ellington, Esquivel, Julio Estrada, Morton Feldman, Federico Fellini, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Fukushima Mizuho????, Slim Gaillard, Mahatma Gandhi, Jerry Garcia, Marvin Gaye, Emilie-Anne Gendron, Joao Gilberto, Gilberto Gil, Allen Ginsberg, Ruben Gonzalez, Amy Goodman, Benny Goodman, Larry Graham, Grateful Dead, David Gray, Peter Green, Gerard Grisey, Sofia Gubaidulina, Hagiwara Sakutaro?????, Jonathan Hall, Hanaregumi?????, Happy End???????, Emmylou Harris, Jonathan Harvey, Michael Hedges, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, Hosono Haruomi????, Huun-Huur-Tu, Imawano Kiyoshiro?????, Ishikawa Takuboku????, Ito Noe????, Molly Ivins, Jim Jarmusch, Jon (the Dog)?????, Elvin Jones, James Joyce, Kaneko Fumiko????, Kang Tae-Hwan???, Kasagi Shizuko?????, Kasuga "Hachi" Hirofumi??, Bob Kaufman, Jack Kerouac, MLK, Kosugi Takehisa????, Leo Kottke, Peter Kowald, Kurosawa Akira???, Kusama Yayoi????, Kusano Shinpei????, Fela Kuti, Charles Kynard, Helmut Lachenmann, Led Zeppelin, Gyorgy Ligeti, Paul Lovens, Witold Lutoslawski, Bob Marley, Melanie, Lydia Mendoza, Olivier Messiaen, The Meters, Roger Miller, Minamo, Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell, Miura Hiroya????, Miyazawa Kenji????, Moby Grape, Thelonious Monk, Mothers of Invention, Tristan Murail, Sainkho Namchylak, Willie Nelson, Yoko Ono, Panda Bear, Dorothy Parker, Evan Parker, William Parker, Parliament/Funkadelic, Harry Partch, Joe Pass, Kenneth Patchen, Oscar Peterson, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Louis Prima, Sergei Prokofiev, Radiohead, Radioinactive, RC Succession, Otis Redding, Preston Reed, Django Reinhardt, Roger Reynolds, Little Richard, Rolling Stones, Arundhati Roy, Nanao Sakaki??????, Samulnori, Pharoah Sanders, Kanako Sasaki??????, Giacinto Scelsi, Sea & Cake, Ravi Shankar, Shin Jung-Hyun???, Matthew Shipp, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sly & The Family Stone, Jimmy Smith, Gary Snyder, Sufjan Stevens, Karleinz Stockhausen, Igor Stravinsky, Sun Ra, Jan Svankmajer, David Sylvian, Takada Wataru???, Takamura Koutaro?????, Tama??, Tanikawa Shuntaro?????, Cecil Taylor, Terayama Shuji????, Themselves, Steve Tibbetts, Dylan Thomas, Pete Thownsend/The Who, The Timers, Tiny Tim, Tobari Daisuke????, Tomobe Masato????, Ralph Towner, Tsuge Yoshiharu????, Uemura Shoen????, Edgard Varese, Caetano Veloso, George Wald, Rolf Wallin, Hank Williams, Mary Lou Williams, Bob Wills, Brian Wilson, Ray Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Ivan Wyschnegradsky Iannis Xenakis, Yanase Naoki????, W.B. Yeats, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, Tom Ze, Howard Zinn, John Zorn...all kinds of Ragtime, Jazz, Dixieland, Funk, Folk, New Orleans!!!!!!, Rock, Classical, World, African, Indonesian (especially Javanese), traditional/modern/funny/weird, everything! Yeah Music! Viva Ongaku!!
Sounds Like: frogs, turtles, Kelly the Orangutan, water, leaves, snorting, flatulence, breathing, slurping, slithering, windy, breezy, belching, scraping, giggling, crying, pooping, peeing, crunching, eating, snoring, heppuri, keguribap, santokibap, or just santoki...yep...uh-huh...with some byon-byon..hmm.
Record Label: Family Vineyard
Type of Label: Indie