Red Squirrel

Music:

Member Since: 1/15/2007
Band Website: myspace.com/aredsquirrel
Band Members: Red Squirrel- For live performance is Electro-Acoustic guitar, Classical guitar, Banjo + voice - of course not all four at the same time...
Influences:

Pine trees, worshiping the moon, hibernating, collecting oddly-shaped food, digging holes for funeral barges and arranging them later in symbolic patterns on the ground that only the grass understands, chasing autumn leaves that like to spin in dizzy circles, open-picnic boxes, hide and seek, occasionally seen glaring at pigeons, long jumps, looking down on the unsuspected passerby, spaces between buildings where souls never meet, chickens howling into the wind and of course the, "Complete Essays on Wisdom" by Arthur Schopenhauer (squirrel edition Circa.1750). The birds waking up before dawn in the morning, the seagulls running off to the mud-flats for roosting in the evening The bright tones from a Chestnut tree shaking its leaves from a gentle spring breeze. All these are musical influences and so much more. Painting, drawing, philosophy, reading, nature, writing, observation in short usually what is done in the studio often provides initial stimulus- enough to relate/translate in some form back to music Here are a few things that i am very fond of and have read, some of which have been read several times over, some more than others and for many reasons.....but in no particular order other than a stream of consciousness....from tales of yesteryears...who are or were... Franz Kafka, G. W Leibniz, Roland Barthes, Emmanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Claude-Levi Strausse, Jean Paul Sartre, Simeone Be Beauvoir, Milan Kundera, Arthur Schopenhauer, Soren Kierkegaarde, Wittgenstein, Lowengard, Jean Baudrillard, Plato, Socrates, Diogenese, Machiavelli, Marquis De Sade, A.E.W. Budge, A.E. Waite, Riguad, Rimbaud, Homer, Milton, Haanel, Betty Edwards, Ralph Mayer, Aldous Huxley, (he did a lot more than, "the doors of perception" ) Thomas Hardy, Dennis Wheatley, More, Burroughs, Gysin, Hunter S, Bulgakov, Philip K Dick, J.O Barr, Roger Scruton, John Gray, H.P Lovecraft, A.C Grayling, Eduard De Bono, Unica Zurn, Orson Welles, David Sylvester, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Frank Millar, Philip Pullman, Ralph Steadman, Dosteovsky, Erwin Schrodinger, Heinrich Kramer & James Sprenger, (Malleus Malficarum) Heidigger, Stephen Hawking, Goethe, Robert Crumb, Nabokov, The Brothers Grimm, Shakespeare, Dickens, Lewis Caroll, George Orwell, Charles Baudelaire, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinrich Heine, Sigmund Freud, Emile Zola, JG Ballard, Charles Bukowski, AS Byatt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, ("The work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"), Wassily Kandinsky particularly the, ("The Spiritual in Art," and also some transcripts of lectures) Anthony Storr, "the Dynamics of creation," Jacques Thackerey, Brothers Quay, Paul Eluard, Per Bregne & Guy Benett, "Pataphysics & Pedantry" Gerhard Richter, Desmond Morris, "The Biology of Art," Robert Selby Jr, Jack Kerouac, Erich Fromm, R.D Laing .......i shall add more as my memory waxes and wanes!!