Member Since: 24/04/2007
Band Website: www.eyeslikesaucers.com
Band Members: myself: modified indian pedal harmonium, echoplex, oscillator, glockenspiel, toy piano, sundry things.
Influences: there is but one person who has always (and shall always) made (make) sense to me: nico.
otherwise, there are many thinkers, writers, poets, filmmakers, et al (i shall presently overlook visual artists - filmmakers aside - for the sake of brevity): nietzsche, derrida, lyotard, cixous,wittgenstein, deleuze, adorno, hans jonas, levinas, arendt, kristeva, edmond jabes, camus, artaud, benjamin, marcuse, heidegger, husserl, r.d. laing, buber, kierkegaard, emerson, thoreau, whitman, bakunin, kropotkin, marx, wollstonecraft, coleridge, wordsworth, blake, shelley, byron, lewis carroll, goethe, trakl, rilke, celan, grass, novalis, hoelderlin, rimbaud, baudelaire, valery, france, cocteau, breton, verlaine, theresa de avila, st. john of the cross, meister eckhart, pseudo dionsysius, angelus silesius, aquinas, maimonides, averroes, ibn khaldhun, al ghazali, zeno, cynegeticus, plato, socrates, xenophon, heraclitus, pythagorus, paul/saul, job, moses, nichiren, dogen, hui neng, lao tze, chuang tze, nagarjuna, bodhidharma, sidharrtha guatama, patanjali, basho, herzog, tarkovsky, garrel, wenders, beckett, philip k. dick, w.s. burroughs, dostoevsky, tolstoy, joseph conrad, hamsun, e.a. poe, kafka, borges, mahfouz, sarte, de sade, chatwin, unamuno, trocchi, jeanette winterson, huxley, brecht, pushkin, orwell, mann, hesse, jarry, et al. i know i'm forgetting an awful lot here.
and then, of course, there are countless works of indeterminate origins ... another time.
Sounds Like: nico, robert wyatt, john cale, this heat, soft machine, faust, can, popol vuh, magma, kevin ayers, dagmar krause, oum koulsoum, olivier messiaen, henry cow, erik satie, fairuz, carl orff, bela bartok, sun city girls, throbbing gristle, current 93, cabaret voltaire, gyorgy ligeti, rembetica, john fahey, pink floyd, roxy music, brian eno, the fall, supersister, klaus schulze, van der graaf generator, ethiopiques, morton feldman, j.s. bach, alice coltrane, guru guru, the dead c, marlene dietrich, c.p.e. bach, gustav mahler, arnold schoenberg, don cherry, caravan, tony conrad, einsturzende neubauten, swell maps, tangerine dream, univers zero, agitation free, the work, news from babel, king crimson, lucio berio, ennio morricone, goblin, charles hayward, john fahey, kronos quartet, ivor cutler, genesis, lol coxhill, the residents, etron fou leloublan, albert marcouer, neu!, fela kutti, et al.
Record Label: Last Visible Dog
Type of Label: Indie