Member Since: 7/4/2007
Band Website: virb.com/falsefacesociety
Influences: In music: Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Harry Partch, Duke Ellington and his Orchestra/Billy Strayhorn, John Coltrane Quartet (Trane, McCoy, Jimmy, Elvin), Stravinsky, Varese, Tchaikovsky, Hindemith, Mustapha Tetty Addy, Alhaji Bai Konte, Hamza El Din, Vaughn Williams, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, the Beatles, Traffic, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Jefferson Airplane, Jack Bruce, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Pablo Casals, Monk, Mingus, Messiaen, Masahiko Togashi, Gamelan of Bali/Java, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Frank Zappa, Rahsaan, Alan Dawson, Howlin’ Wolf, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Son Seals, Bert Jansch, Martin Carthy, Jean Redpath, June Tabor, Cecil Taylor Unit (Cecil, Jimmy Lyons, Andrew Cyrille, a.o.), Victor Jara, Sivuca, Hermeto Pascoal, Marisa Monte, Airto, Egberto Gismonti, Milford Graves, Toshi Tsuchitori, Eric Dolphy, Dollar Brand, Fela Kuti, Salif Keita, Cheikh Lo, King Sunny Ade, Bob Marley, Black Uhuru, The Mighty Diamonds, Los Lobos, Bonzo Dog Band, John Martyn, John McLaughlin, Andrew Hill, Herbie Nichols, Baby Dodds, Roy Haynes, Allah Rakha/Zakir Hussein, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Trilok Gurtu, Palghat Mani Iyer, Uturi Pygmies, Shona mbira, the Master Musicians of Joujouka, Glen Velez, Samul Nori, Eje Thelin, Marion Brown, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Sam Rivers, Anthony Braxton, Leo Smith, Steve Coleman, Jim Kilpatrick, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Betty Carter, Kate Bush, John Gilmore, Ovary Lodge/Ark (Keith Tippett, Frank Perry, a.o.), George Crumb, Lou Harrison, Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner, Matt Chamberlain, Robert Wyatt, Henry Cow, David Sylvian, David Byrne/Brian Eno, George Russell, Miles Davis groups, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Richard Davis, AACM, Steve McCall, Don Cherry/Dewey Redman/Charlie Haden/Ed Blackwell (with Ornette, Old and New Dreams, JCOA, and much more), Sun Ra Arkestra, Yehudi Menuhin, Ram Narayan, Luciano Berio, Toru Takemitsu, Charles Ives, Alan Hovhaness, Old Blind Dogs, Joan LaBarbara, Larry Young, Dave Liebman, Dafnis Prieto, Eric Harland, Bill Stewart, Bob Moses, Edgar Bateman, Ben Perowsky, Ari Hoenig, Bobby Previte, Mark Guiliana, Brian Blade, Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Paul Bley, Carla Bley, Billy Higgins, Shelly Manne, Billy Elgart, Charlie Parker, Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, Jeff Beck, Peter Green, Peter Gabriel, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, Pheeroan Ak Laff, Denzil Best, Michael Sarin, Tom Rainey, Phil Haynes, Ted Poor, Tony Malaby, Henry Threadgil (Air, Very Very Circus, etc.), Barry Altschul, Daniel Humair, Paul Lytton, Cozy Cole, Scott Amendola, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Francis Awe, the Cline bros.(Nels/Alex), Vinny Golia, John Carter/Bobby Bradford, Manu Katche, John McLaughlin, Xenakis, Hal Wilner, Tom Waits, Ken Nordine, Gagaku, Bill Frisell, Art Pepper, Dexter Gordon, Prez, Steve Lacy, Gil Evans, Clive Bunker, Tony Oxley, Barry Guy, Hans Reichel, ad infinitum . . .In other creative realms: Little Crow, Alan Watts, Robert Burns, Ramakrishna, Gary Snyder, Edward Abbey, William Burroughs, John Muir, Bernard Shaw, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro, Albert Camus, Mark Twain, Ursula Le Guin, Alice Walker, Barbara Kingsolver, Sherri Tepper, Black Elk, James Fenimore Cooper, William Blake, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Lord Buckley, Ishmael Reed, Zora Neale Hurston, Amiri Baraka(Leroi Jones), Robert Palmer, Fred Rogers, Carl Sagan, Jacques Cousteau, Jane Goodall, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Muktananda, D.T. Suzuki, Chogyam Trungpa, Walt Whitman, Akira Kurosawa, Pedro Almodovar, Alexander Jodorowsky, Mario Casetta, Vandana Shiva, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Howard & Roz Larman, Helen Caldicott, Culture Clash, Monty Python, The Goons, SCTV, Terry Thomas, Alistair Sims, Peter Cook/Dudley Moore, Seinfeld, Mati Klerwein, ad infinitum . . .
Sounds Like: One hand clapping and the kitchen sink . . .
Type of Label: None