Member Since: 12/6/2006
Band Website: www.christophercostabile.com
Band Members: Christopher Costabile - guitars, effects, keyboard, percussion.
Influences: Musical: Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Terry Riley, Gavin Bryars, Talk Talk, La Monte Young, Robert Ashley, Albert Ayler, Sigur Ros, Meredith Monk, Charles Mingus, Lawrence "Butch" Morris, Muhal Richard Abrams, Jerry Hunt, Ennio Morricone, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Steve Reich, Spring Heel Jack, Olivier Messiaen, Laurie Anderson, Sparklehorse, Anthony Braxton, The Velvet Underground, Bowie, Alvin Lucier, Ali Akbar Khan, Bang on a Can (and the Cantaloupe Music label), Tom Waits, The Flaming Lips, Michael Gordon, Pierre Schaeffer, Eric Dolphy, The AACM, John Cale, John Cage, Radiohead, Satie, Michael Nyman, Ray Barretto, Harmonia, Faust, all forms of Free Music
Non-Musical: Marcel Duchamp, Andrei Tarkovsky, Guillaume Apollinaire, Yves Klein, Ingmar Bergman, Max Ernst, L.S. Asekoff, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, foreign films, short films, paintings, almost all surrealist art and poetry.
Sounds Like: A daredevil crew of PB&J sandwiches sky-diving from a picnic basket after being whisked away by an out-of-control hot air balloon.
Type of Label: Unsigned