FORTHCOMING:
The Meaning of Human Life Is Thought Itself
CD, Bastion Recordings
9 tracks, 40+ mins, rec. 2006-7
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Influences: INSPIRATIONS INCLUDE: 50's and 60's jazz (John Coltrane,
Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Wayne Shorter, Albert Ayler, Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy, Dexter Gordon, Art Blakey/Jazz Messengers, Ornette Coleman, Freddie Hubbard, Yusef Lateef, Clifford Brown, Hasaan Ibn Ali, etc.) with some outliers (IE. Mahavishnu Orchestra, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Return to Forever), psych, prog and krautrock (Beatles, Doors, Iron Butterfly, Yes, Rush, King Crimson, Soft Machine, Can, Electric Prunes, Music Machine, Yardbirds, The Action, Roxy Music, Eno, Neu!, Santana, Silver Apples, The Who, Gomorrha, Glass Harp, This Heat, Circus 2000, Kraan, Moody Blues, Mad River, Cream, Popol Vuh, etc), 80's and early 90's hardcore (Rites of Spring, Burn, Quicksand, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Fountainhead, Lifetime, Turning Point, Side by Side, Chain of Strength, Farside, Big Boys, Husker Du, The Faith, Flipper, No Trend, Inside Out, Snapcase, Shelter, Into Another, etc), old reggae (Congos, Abyssinians, Yabby You, Gladiators, Meditations, Dennis Brown, Jacob Miller, Johnny Clarke, Horace Andy, Junior Delahaye, etc) and dub (King Tubby, Lee Perry/Upsetters, Wackies stuff, some Keith Hudson), folk and classical forms from various places (Africa, Middle East, Far East/Orient, India, 20th century Afro-American United States), and other stuff (IE. The Byrds, Kraftwerk, Gang of Four, Joy Division, Stravinsky, Kinks, Mekons, Television, Tuxedomoon, Thomas Leer, The Normal, Trio, Wire, The Clash, Killing Joke, Black Sabbath, Kurtis Blow, Public Enemy, James Brown, CSNY, Dils, Roy Buchanan, Buzzcocks, Magazine, Ventures, Fela Kuti/Africa 70, Scritti Politti, Modern Lovers, The Police, Steve Reich, Shellac, Slint, Skatalites, Chrome, Sigur Ros, Link Wray, and more). Writers and other: Albert Camus, J.G. Ballard, Jean Baudraillard, Jean-Luc Godard, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Conrad, John Hersey, William Golding, E.E. Cummings, Bertolt Brecht, Rene Magritte, Piet Mondrian, and more...
Record Label: Bastion Recordings
Type of Label: Indie