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Chris Lyons

Improvisation is an ethical stance!

About Me

Chris Lyons is a twenty year old pianist, composer, guitarist, music teacher, producer, film-score composer and poet resident in Edinburgh. His new album "The Ill-Tempered Klavier" can be bought at here: .. CDBABY LINK for CHRIS LYONS: The Ill-Tempered Klavier --

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/22/2007
Band Website: chrislyons.co.uk
Influences: Charles Mingus, Johannes Brahms, Jacques Lacan, Serge Prokofiev, Battles, Martin Heidegger, Richard Wagner, Saul Bellow, Robert Schumann, Eric Dolphy, Animal Collective, Duke Ellington, Arnold Schoenberg, The Pixies, Philip Roth, Samuel Johnson, Scandinavian Black Metal, Theodor W. Adorno, Alban Berg, Claude Debussy, Vijay Iyer, Hiromi, Franz Liszt, Charles Valentin Alkan, Karl Marx, Prince, The Stooges, Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, GWF Hegel, Walter Benjamin, Slavoj Zizek, Keith Jarrett, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Leo Strauss, Lord Byron, Ezra Pound, Modest Mouse, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Jens Lekman, Sigmund Freud, Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, Herbert Marcuse, William Blake, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Serge Rachmaninov, Aleksandr Skryabin, Olivier Messiaen, Parliament Funkadelic, The Mars Volta, Laurence Sterne, T.S. Elliot, F.R. Leavis, Plato, Lucretius, Allan Bloom, Sly Stone, David Bowie, Elliott Carter, Venetian Snares, Aphex Twin, David Foster Wallace, Georg Lukacs, Alain Badiou, Gustave Flaubert, George Elliott, Autechre, Primus, Heinrich Schenker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, Tarafs de Haidouks, Guy Fawkes, Michel Houellebecq, Conlon Nancarrow, Don Cherry, Lou Reed, Brian Eno, Meshuggah, Gorguts, Kataklysm, Opeth, Johann Sebastian Bach, Gustav Mahler, Harrison Bertwhistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Ronald Stevenson, Ferruccio Busoni, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Magma, The Wu-Tang Clan, Immanuel Kant,
Sounds Like: Like all good music - frequencies arranged according to rational human subjectivity.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

BBC Radio Scotland show on Wed 4 April. 8PM - The Jazz House. Check it out!

The Chris Lyons Trio, that is myself, Slawek and Kevin are playing on the BBC Radio Scotland show - The Jazz House on Wednesday 4 April at 8PM.
Posted by Chris Lyons on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:12:00 PST