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rinkadon

The man who plays everything but music

About Me


As Dudu Pukwana said, "I don't care about...I just want to burn"
Or Ornette Coleman, from Soapsuds, "When I played my music, my saxophone playing was not liked. Some players play their instruments as their tour de force in music. I always try to make music my tour de force, not the instrument."
Or Beckett, "When you're up to your neck in shit, all you can do is sing"
"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution."
- Igor Stravinsky
"We are the rats that build the labyrinth from which we plan to escape."
- Raymond Queneau
Music has kept me healthy and happy for twenty years and I expect it to carry on in this vein for another forty. To keep the quote quota up, Keith Tippett said something once about improvised music being used to heal people sometime in the future, and I quite agree (but I'm not a crank, ok?). I'm one of the most fortunate people I know, in being able to do things I love on a daily basis without undue interference. Then again, let's wait and see (William Burroughs, "The outcome is in doubt." ).
Recently I've been having lots of fun playing with the amazing and beautiful percussionist Paul Hession, as well as in the various ensembles I have been playing in. I'm particularly pleased with the clarinet trio, Swinepipe, as this is something I've wanted to do for some time. Getting to read in situations like Home Of The Brave and Stockpot Stopcock makes me happy too. As does community music. Search for The Jam Factory or The Dales Jam to see the sterling work I've achieved in this area.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/16/2007
Band Website: rinkadon.net
Band Members: SWINEPIPE
rinkadon - clarinets
helen baines - clarinets
ruth anne godfrey - clarinets

STOCKPOT STOPCOCK
rinkadon - spoken word
matt bourne - piano, cello

HOME OF THE BRAVE
rinkadon - reeds, accordion, trumpet, voice
jonny flockton - guitar, mandolin
rus pearson - bass, laptop
paul hession - drums

UNIT OF RESISTANCE
rinkadon - tenor and soprano saxophones, Bb and bass clarinet
paul moore - contrabass
paul hession - drums

WHAT LOVE
rinkadon - tenor sax, baritone sax, bass clarinet
rus pearson - bass

RASHOMON
rinkadon - reeds, flute, accordion, brass, toys
[ninon foiret - flute, hurdy gurdy]
[si kaylor - saxophones]
[tony burkill - saxophones, clarinet]
[si beddoe - trumpet]
nick mills - trombone
matt bourne - piano
chris sharkey - guitar
dave kane - double bass
sam hobbs - drums

PANJUMBY
dudley nesbitt - steel pan, percussion
rinkadon - reeds, flute, percussion
barklay mckay - keyboard
kenneth higgins - bass
sam hobbs - drums

HARD-TIME ORCHESTRA
elizabeth nygaard - voice
jonny flockton - guitar, banjo, mandolin
rinkadon - accordion, clarinet

HOT AND RICH
rinkadon - reeds, flute, melodica
bob ormrod - reeds, harmonica

ZELIG
helen baines - clarinets
yvonne magda - violin
rinkadon - accordion, tenor
jonny flockton - guitar, mandolin, banjo
paul moore - tuba

JAZZ MUNDO
rinkadon - reeds, accordion
rod taylor - violin
paul martin - guitar
andy rawson - guitar
chris topman - double bass
ali pryde - drums

JAM FACTORY
community orchestra based in blackburn, lancashire

DALES JAM
community orchestra based in skipton, yorkshire
Influences: william burroughs
samuel beckett
pixinguinha
eric morecambe
georges perec
johnny dodds
slavoj zizek
abdullah ibrahim
robert wyatt
chris macgregor
robert crumb
alfred korzybski
elvin jones
mike osborne
joan miro
raymond queneau
earl bostic
john zorn
tommy mccook
herman melville
ornette coleman
groucho marx
memphis slim
lord buckley
alexandro jodorowsky
mervyn peake
kevin coyne
bob ormrod
flann o'brien
tim berne
captain beefheart
james booker
jean genet
duke ellington
jack vance
dr seuss
gary u.s. bonds
jimmy giuffre
scott joplin
james ellroy
jerzy grotowski
dudu pukwana
sonny simmons
john tchicai
kurt weill
the vikings
wassily kandinski
akira kurosawa
eric dolphy
sun ra
james joyce
jean lescure
paul hession
john coltrane
pedro almodovar
thelonious monk
barney bigard
harpo marx
pina bausch
james chance
tommy cooper
philip k dick
ennio morricone
stanislaw lem
wardell gray
gabrielle mirabassi
charles lloyd
ellery eskelin
ben webster
lol coxhill
matt bourne
fernando arrabal
steve berry
spike milligan
thomas pynchon
Sounds Like: rinkadon Love for Tink 90% Spaghetti Westerns 75% Dr. Seuss 70% Terrible Wrongness 70% Home-made schnitzel 70% Xavier Cugat 57% Health Paranoia 52% Catwoman 50% Gherkins 50% Quaker's Porridge Oats 42% Cross-trainers 40% Eb Tenor Horn 25% A Humdinger! Damn, they don't make 'em like me any more. If I had another ten men like me I'd turn this couuntry around, I'd show them what's what... What? WHAT?? Makes me proud just lookin' at me standin' there, young and lean and dressed like a fetishist.
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