Member Since: 12/5/2006
Band Members: Drumset
Member of: The Octagon, The Ball Governor, Monkey King, GlassBurns.
Collaborator with: Nat Baldwin, Dirty Projectors, Alfonso Velez, GOA, Shot Heard Round the World, Shalabi Effect, Hannah Marcus, Mike Watt, John Heward, Kosher Dill Spears, Sam Shalabi, Anthony Seck.
RIP: Crackpot, Balai Mecanique, Sloth is the Love, The Vittles, Detroit Metal.
Influences: James Yancey; Ed Blackwell, Milford Graves, Andrew Cyrille, Max Roach, Roy Haynes; Ahmir Thompson, Karriem Riggins; RZA, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Madlib; Kenny Buttrey, Levon Helm, Earl Palmer, Charlie Watts, Billy Ficca; De La Soul, Ramones, the Four Tops, American Devices, the Meters, Neil Young and Crazy Horse; Don Pullen, John Coltrane, Fred Hopkins, Marshall Allen, Don Cherry, Richard Davis; Pistol Allen, Uriel Jones, Al Jackson, Clyde Stubblefield, Jabo Starks; James Brown, Sam Cooke, Al Green, Martha Reeves, Mary Wells, Otis Redding; D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Dwele, Bilal; Stevie Wonder's Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants; "Criminal Minded," "Discipline 27-II," "Astral Weeks," "Black Woman"; "Exile on Main St.," "Green Mind"; Tape Op, Wax Poetics; "Ulysses," "Get Fuzzy"; Moe Tucker, Olatunji; Cristina Elena Brickman Gonzalez; Cycling; Canada.
Sounds Like: Sbarro's Italian Buffet
Record Label: Serious Business
Type of Label: Indie