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Bruce Arkin

Music Good, War Bad

About Me

Bruce Arkin plays the saxophones quite well, and likes music very much. He continues to practice and find inspiration in beauty, which he in turn translates into musical diatribes that provide entertainment and inspiration for those who hear him... He also writes music, plays flute, drums and some piano, and has been known to sing... He was born in Connecticut and moved to Boston for school, then on to Brooklyn... After Bush took office, he moved to Barcelona to wait out that fascist regime..s sad rule from afar... He is still waiting...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/10/2007
Band Website: You´re lookin´at it...
Band Members: My CD, Wake Up! on freshsound records has Chris Higgins on bass, Jorge Rossy on drums, and Albert Bover on piano...... Draconian Mellee and Camel of The Plantworld are productions done with Tom Warburton... I composed and played all tracks and vocals... The H.A.M Trio is with RJ Miller and Chris Higgins... I play with alot of other people... (see freinds)
Influences: my short list of influences include; Tom Waits, Radiohead, Sonny Rollins, Lee Konitz, King Sunny Ade, Son House, Alan Watts, Flying, Stravinsky, Jim Hobbs, ee cummings, Bjork, Wayne Shorter, Coltrane, Homer Simpson, Fela Kuti, Mom and Dad, Donny Hathaway, Frank Zappa, J.S Bach, Bill Hicks, Stevie Wonder, Albert Ayler, Monk, George Garzone, Kurt Vonnegut, Monet, Hal Crook, Nirvana, Dick Cheney, The Beatles, Dangelo, Jon Stewart, Q-tip, Don Cherry, Douglas Adams, Keith Jarrett, Prince, Elliot Smith, Picasso, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Steve Lacy... to name a few, and not in that order...
Sounds Like: Waves at various speeds, organized just so...
Record Label: freshsound, Smirk Records, San Pedro7
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

THE UN-QUIET

I, as a casual observer of the current decay of basic decency in the U.S, am becomming more and more appauled at the rate in which the fiber of the great 20th century experiment that is the american r...
Posted by Bruce Arkin on Mon, 26 May 2008 03:35:00 PST