brian lee sebastian

Music:

Member Since: 11/30/2006
Band Members: All music was produced and mixed by Brian Lee Sebastian, recorded and mixed by Tim Gerron (at Music Lab, Austin,TX.), and mastered by Allan Tucker at Foothill Digital, NYC.
Compositions/improvisations designed by Brian Lee Sebastian (except "still life with blue center" and "will gone iron", by B. Sebastian/D. Silverman/noisetet; and "Blue Jay Way", by G. Harrison, c. 1967; arranged by B. Sebastian and Chris Duarte). All music (other than "Blue Jay Way") copyright 2003-2007 by Brian Lee Sebastian/N-O Werks (all improvisers share in songwriting credit).
Brian Lee Sebastian: producer (all trks.), drumset, drum machine, left drums ("still life...", "will gone iron"), gongs, percussion, Chinese toms
Donny Silverman: circuit-bent electronics, samples, flute and saxophone, bass clarinet, tattoos
Tim Gerron: engineer, sound design, co-production, laser beam
Malcolm "Papa Mali" Welbourne: voodoo-caster and other guitars ("summer in oslo", "still life with blue center")
Rick G. Nelson lll: violin, viola, cello, (upright bass: "utrecht breakdown") and carpentry
(featuring) Brian Groder: deft trumpet ("haruki’s groove")... Doug Hall (R.I.P.): keyboards/Fender Rhodes ("summer in oslo"), inspiration... William Landin: electric-Houdini bass... David Phelps: nerve guitar, plastic Coke-bottle-slide guitar... Bruce Salmon: non-idiomatic keyboard, samples, life... Aaryn Russell: skronk clarinet/poignant clarinet; elec. bass "will gone iron"; and whatever else he wants to play... Landis Armstrong: Morricone-guitar ("Blue Jay Way")... Darin Layne: groove/lyrical guitar ("haruki’s groove")... Chris Duarte: out-blue melody guitar ("Blue Jay Way")... Drew Phelps: acoustic/arco bass ("still life with blue center")... Steve Samuel: percussion ("still life with blue center")... Michael Hale: right drums ("still life with blue center", "will gone iron")
Influences:
(the short list:) the Blues - the human condition is all one sort of blues or another.

Ornette Coleman: "It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was onto something."
Pythagoras: "There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres."
Sly Stone: "Don't hate the black, don't hate the white, if you get bit just hate the bite..."
Elvin Jones: "I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts a painting. And I can see different colors. My cymbals will be one color and my snare another color and my tom-toms each a different color. I mix these colors up, making constant movement. Drums suggest movement, a conscious, constant shifting of sounds and levels of sound."
Igor Stravinsky: "I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."
Anne Sexton: “Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”