Member Since: 03/07/2007
Band Members: For the most part it's just Mark, his bass and bow and a looper.
For "Aim for the Roses" Mark is joined by many people including:
Andrew Wheeler as Ken Carter
David Gannett as Evel Knievel
Tom Pickett as Harry Shermet (Assistant Manager of Westgate Speedway)
Rick Maddocks as the Fuel Tank Designers
David Marr as the Ramp Engineer
Joelysa Pankanea as the Statistician
Scott Bellis as the Radio Announcer
and a whole mess of folks as spectators at Westgate Speedway.
Influences: Seth (the cartoonist, not the ancient warrior who dispenses New Age philosophy)
Sofia Gubaidulina
Paul Hindemith
Norman Maclaren
Roger Waters
Bertram Turetzky
Edgar Meyer
Charles Mingus
Sigur Ros
Ken Carter
Steve Reich
John Cage
Chester Brown
Bobcat Goldthwait
Sounds Like: This is my favorite description of the solo improvisations on this page:
"It's like the pulse in your ears late, late at night when you're curled up under a warm comforter. You know what it sounds like? It sounds like the pulse of the world if you were listening to it in a womb. You know, under water? That's what it sounds like." -Laurel Adam
The overwhelming consensus is that "Aim for the Roses" sounds like something that would be heard on CBC radio late at night in the late 70's or early 80's.
I can live with that.
Type of Label: Unsigned