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About Me

Shaman Headinvader is about to take over your mind. His sonic rumblings inhabit the dangerous frequencies of the subconscious. Through music S H aims at transforming you. He's out to a reshape your head. Let his waves of subliminal wisdom wash over your secret selves. Let him free you from your cage.To achieve these aims of transcendence, Shaman Headinvader uses methods that only the seriously unhinged could conceive of. He believes firmly and fundamentally in the importance of playing his instruments badly. To this end he recently took a solemn vow never to tune his guitar again. The grating delights of this approach can often be heard in his twisted, twirling pieces. You may find this strange, but there's no way you're going to get a different head if you listen to normally played and constituted music. S H also believes in the necessity of not consciously thinking when making music. To this end he uses chance procedures in the construction of his sound canvasses. To him, lost inside his distorted wisdom, this seems the only way to reach the unknown dimensions that lie within us all. Get ready for a journey into inner space with Shaman Headinvader at your side!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/23/2007
Band Members: Derek Miles
Influences:

Acid Mothers Temple Air Alice Coltrane AMM Amun Duul II Aphex Twin Ash Ra Tempel Augustus Pablo Autechre Beatles Bill Nelson Bjork Brian Eno Cabaret Voltaire Can Captain Beefheart Cure DAF (early) David Behrman David Bowie David Gilmore David Sylvian Donovan Doors Durutti Column Dylan Thomas (early) Erik Satie Faust Frank Zappa Gang of Four Goldfrapp Gong Gyorgy Ligeti Hawkwind Heldon Iggy Pop Incredible String Band John Cale John Coltrane (early) Joy Division J S Bach Julian Cope Kate Bush Killing Joke King Crimson Klaus Schulze Kraftwerk Laurie Anderson Lee Scratch Perry Loren Nerell Lou Reed Miles Davis Modest Mouse Mogwai Monster Magnet Morton Subotnick My Bloody Valentine Nebula Nurse With Wound Orb Pentangle Pere Ubu Peter Gabriel Phillip Glass PIL Pink Floyd Pop Group Portishead Radiohead Robert Fripp Robert Johnson Robert Wyatt Sandy Denny Sex Pistols Sigur Ros Siouxsie and the Banshees Slits Soft Machine (early) Sonic Youth Spacemen 3 Stereolab Steve Hillage Stockhausen Suicide Sun Ra Syd Barrett T-Rex Talking Heads Tangerine Dream Terry Riley The Pixies This Heat Throbbing Gristle Tom Verlaine Tom Waits Tortoise Velvet Underground White Stripes Who Young Marble Giants

The List Sorter

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Break The Code

It's time to break the musical code that's holding back our hearts in a safe imprisonment. When we hear music, we interpret it through this code a maming mental matrix limiting our sonic and persona...
Posted by Shaman Headinvader on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:45:00 PST

Artists As Shamen

It suddenly struck me the other day that in modern society artists have a sort of shamanic role. Like shamen they go to the other sides of themselves, delve into other dimensions and realiti...
Posted by Shaman Headinvader on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:10:00 PST

Meandering Thoughts

Shaman Headinvader is trying to access an as yet unknown world of sound that's hidden behind the veil of constructed musical reality - music as it is given to us from birth, poured into our ...
Posted by Shaman Headinvader on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:02:00 PST

Approach To Slop

For the moment there are four slop tracks available by Shaman Headinvader - two can be heard on the myspace page. They are no similarities between these short slop symphonies - all slop is different, ...
Posted by Shaman Headinvader on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:03:00 PST

The Sonic Reshaper

I want to make music that no one can understand, not even myself. I'm no new age freakie but I believe in the power of music to change people and seeing as the world is hurtling headlong to disaster, ...
Posted by Shaman Headinvader on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:01:00 PST