Member Since: 1/13/2007
Band Website: wrigglypig.com
Band Members: Mark Lockett piano, organ, percussion, gamelan, accordion
Current collaborators include:
Symphony of Wrong with Stan Adler (electric cello and bass) Deb Swallow and Kate Hardy (vocals and percussion)
Las Vegas Powercut with Trevor Lines (bass), Wilfried Chevalier (drums)
Earth N Beat with Praveen D Rao (mrdangam), Jyotsnah Srikanth (Carnatic violin), Max Hallett (drums)
ASTI French rock band
Other projects with Valerie Schlée – poet, and Christian Hadengue – painter.
Influences: In chronological order:
Ezra Read’s first piano tutor, Bartok's Mikrokosmos, Debussy, Ravel, Cornelius Cardew/The Scratch Orchestra, The Soft Machine, Terry Riley, John Cage, The Velvet Underground, Yoko Ono, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, classical Javanese gamelan, Fluxus artists, Pauline Oliveros (my teacher and mentor), Lou Harrison, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, Derek Bailey, Merzbow, Peyote Cult Songs recorded by Harry Smith, Erik Satie, Percy Grainger, Borah Bergman, This Heat, Art Bears, Indian classical music from the north and south, my teachers in Bali: I Nyoman Partha Gunawan (gamelan salunding) and I Wayan Loceng (gendèr wayang).
Sounds Like: Most flattering comment comes from a review in The Wire:
“He shares with Robert Wyatt the knack of conjouring up a particularly English moody atmosphere, like a tango that’s run out of petrol somewhere near Stockton-on-Tees.â€
Record Label: Wriggly Pig Records
Type of Label: Indie