Member Since: 09/05/2007
Band Website: hasikarasmile.blogspot.com
Band Members: Fergus - Vocals, Guitar, Drum Loops, (violin/fiddle, piano, glockenspiel, autoharp, organ/synth, melodica, percussion on samples)
Fred "Dirty Beau" - Vocals, Bass, Samples (trumpet, harmonica, autoharp, piano, organ/synth, saxophone, flute, tin whistle, percussion on samples)
Influences: MUSIC (in no particular order) : Ame Son, Butthole Surfers, Captain Beefheart, Minutemen, Tall Dwarfs, Can, Don Cherry, Funkadelic, Tenjo Sajiki, Tokyo Kid Brothers (Throw Away The Books), J.A. Caesar, J.A. Seazer, Magical Power Mako, Charlie Haden, Flower Travellin' Band, Les Rallizes Denudes, Os Mutantes, Mogollar, Afrirampo, Olivia Tremor Control, The Shaggs, Boban Markovic, The Insect Trust, White Denim, Mustafa Ozkent, Erkin Koray, Selda, Cem Karaca, 3 Hurel, Baris Manco, Curtis Mayfield, Group Inerane, The Meters, Kool & The Gang, Sly & The Family Stone, Parliament, Ruth Copeland, Sarolta Zalatnay, Dungen, Okay Temiz, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Sonny Sharrock, Grachan Moncur III, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Group Bombino, Alice Coltrane, JCOA, Liberation Music Orchestra, Pharoah Sanders, Clifford Thornton, Sun Ra & Arkestra, Escalator Over the Hill, Codona, Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim, Miles Davis, Hawk & A Hacksaw, The Fugs, Meat Puppets, The Contortions, Yahowha 13, Bubble Puppy, Van Der Graaf Generator, Public Nuisance, Arbete Och Fritid, Parson Sound, Trad Gras Och Stenar, Betty Davis, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Amon Duul I & II, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Annette Peacock, James Brown, Count Ossie, Melting Glass Box, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Plastic People Of The Universe, Porno For Pyros, Frank Zappa (but really only for "Hot Rats" - sorry Frank!), Fela Kuti, The Germs, De Facto, Komeda, The Monks, Pere Ubu, Jimmy Castor Bunch, Incredible Bongo Band, Fraser & Debolt, Guido De Angelis, Mayo Thompson, Ethiopiques Series, Mulatu Astatke, Mahmoud Ahmed, Mulluqen Mellesse, The Clean, Ghana Sounds Compilations, Secret Museum Of Mankind Series, James Booker, The Band, Lee Perry, King Tubby, Jackie Mittoo, Dennis Alcapone, Big Youth, Skatalites, Baba Brooks, Sound Dimension, U-Roy, Dillinger, Cedric "Im" Brooks, Dinosaur Jr, Beirut, Neutral Milk Hotel, Gravediggaz, Public Enemy, The Goats, Ice Cube, Schoolly D, Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde, Cypress Hill, Ultramagnetic MC's, Stetsasonic, Prince Paul, Wu-Tang Clan, RZA, GZA, ODB, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Raekwon, Beastie Boys, Jurassic 5, Ice T, Big Daddy Kane, House Of Pain, Gangstarr, NWA, Leaders Of The New School, Eric B & Rakim, Boogie Down Productions, Run DMC, Brand Nubian, Biz Markie, Chubb Rock, Ugly Duckling, MF Doom, Viktor Vaughan, Madvillain, Dangerdoom, King Geedorah, Madlib, KMD, Cut Chemist, Edan, Main Source, Souls Of Mischief, Diamond D, Casual, Showbiz & AG, M.I.A. Anthology Of Amercian Folk Music, Raymond Scott, Charlie Poole, PJ Harvey, Bjork, Dock Boggs, The Deviants, Nuggets Series, Modern Lovers, Eddie Bo, Fingletoad, Strange & Siho, John Frusciante, Holy Modal Rounders, Professor Longhair, Moondog, Thai Beat A Go Go Comps, GS Sounds, Dusty Fingers Comps, Carter Family, Tom Waits, Les Baxter, George Coleman, Bo Harwood, Charley Patton, Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Lemon Jefferson,, Skip James, Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Elizabeth Cotten, Doc Watson, Bert Jansch, Woody Guthrie, Ed Askew, Josh White, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, Medicine Show Music, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, A Cid Symphony, The Who, Black Sabbath, Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Rolling Stones, Arthur Brown/Kingdom Come, Michael Hurley, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Jackson C. Frank, Daryll-Ann, Big Star, Daniel Johnston, P J Harvey, Radiohead, David Bowie, The Ramones, Davy Graham, Ivor Cutler, The Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron, Fred Neil, The Seeds, Terry Durham, Ernie Graham, Simon Finn, Tony Joe White, Bernard Purdie, Gruff Rhys, Super Furry Animals, Rollins Band, Beck, Dr John, Flaming Lips, Early Eno, Bob Lind,Jack Nitzsche, Tim Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Syd Barrett, Melvin Van Peebles, The Ramones, Plastic Ono Band,Buffy Sainte-Marie, Richie Havens, Karen Dalton, Meic Stevens, Dino Valente, Tony Caro & John, Evie Sands, Bob Marley, Gang Of Four, Linda Perhacs, Elyse, Bongwater, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Tom Ze, Gilberto Gil, Henry Flynt, Isaac Hayes, Zoo, Jackson 5, Pete Dello/Honeybus, Ronnie Lane, Allen Toussaint, The Kinks, George Harrison (Wonderwall) Andy Votel, Vincent Gallo, Skip Spence, Al Green, Syl Johnson, Leon Thomas, Marvin Gaye, Temptations, Isley Brothers, Booker T & the MG's, Aretha Franklin, King Curtis & many more..................................ARTISTS ON THE FOLLOWING LABELS :- Arhoolie, Yazoo, Folkways, Subliminal Sounds, Studio One, ESP, Trojan, Soul Jazz, Soul Patrol, Finderskeepers, B-Music, Ngoma, URC(Japan), Tamla Motown, Stax, Reprise, Vertigo, Arome Productions, Atlantic, Sublime Frequencies, Buda Musique, Impulse, Sonet, Hi Records, Shadoks, Tiliqua, SkyStation, Elektra, Soundway, Vampisoul & many more.FILMS (Directors) John Cassavetes, Werner Herzog, Hal Ashby, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Shuji Terayama, Alan Clarke, Jean Pierre Melville, Nic Roeg, Donald Cammell, Ozu, Yasuzo Masumura, Seijun Suzuki, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Masahiro Shinoda, Toshio Matsumoto, Shohei Imamura, Akira Kurosawa, Kaneto Shindo, Stan Brakhage, Paul Sharits, Ken Jacobs, Jeff Keen, Jan Svankmeyer, Jan Nemec, Monte Hellman, Walter Hill, Michael Haneke, Richard Linklater, Jim Jarmusch, Stan Brakhage, Robert Altman, Karel Reisz, Lars Von Triers, Alan Pakula, Sam Peckinpah, Bill Gunn (for "Ganja & Hess") Juraj Herz & many more that don't spring to mind right now.........................................................
.......................................... (Actors) John Cassavetes & anyone who acted in his movies, Donald Pleasance, Tim Carey (not Jim!) Warren Oates & many more
Record Label: Unsigned