Member Since: 7/11/2007
Influences:
Musicians like Erik Satie, Augustus Pablo, Brian Eno, Serge Gainsbourg, Roy Ayers, Gil Scott Heron, Brian Jackson, John Cage, ESG, Blind Willie Johnson, Thelonious Monk, Oval, Lee Perry, Claude Debussy, Spiritualized, Jimmy Smith, Horace Andy, The Velvet Underground, Wes Montgomery, Claude Debussy, Skip James, Dj Shadow, Ernest Ranglin, Gustav Malher, Jacob Miller, The JB’s, Joy Division, Brad Mehldau, Colette Renard, Johnny Cash, Rudolf Johnson, Robert Ashley, Parliament, The Troggs, Igor Stravinsky, Earth Wind & Fire, Oum Kalthoum, Roland Kirk, Raymond Scott, Dennis Brown, Kurt Weil, Judy Mowatt, A Certain Ratio, Wayne Shorter, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Madcliff, Jimi Tenor, Africa Bambaataa, Prince Jammy, Robin Rimbaud, Marlena Shaw, Alan Lomax, Rod Taylor, The Meteors, Nino Rota, Jackie Mittoo, Eliane Radigue, Drexciya, Hector Zazou, Yellowman, Sun Ra, Pierre Schaeffer, Mos Def, The Doors, Leroy Sibbles, Charles Mingus, Mars, Tony Gatlif, Walter Bishop Jr, Blondie, Maurice Ravel, James Chance & The Contorsion, Dj Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Jacques Brel, Grandmaster Flash, Alec Empire, Byron Lee & The Dragonaires, Ulan Bator, Rip Rig & Panic, Betty Davis, Buddy Rich, Clement Dodd, Tom Tom Club, Walter Carlos, Nick Drake, Bessie Smith, NTM, Devo, Mulatu Astatke, Maurizio, André Jolivet, Ron Trent, The Rutles, Ennio Morricone, David Bowie, Kontact Avec Le Kosmos [KALK], Bauhaus, Ahmad Jamal, Lone Ranger, The Specials, Seu Jorge, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Curtis Mayfield, Spacemen 3, Big Mama Thornton, King Tubby, Gyorgy Ligeti, La Monte Young, Cannonball Adderley , Boris Vian, Les 5 Gentlemen, Jim O’Rourke, Marvin Gaye, 13th Floor Elevators, Louis Jordan, Olivier Messiaen, Kraftwerk, The Roots, Nico, Metal Urbain, Experimental Audio Research, Charles Earland, Kurt Weil, John Coltrane, Gogol 1er, Django Reinhardt, Black Uhuru, Johnny Thunders, Camille St Saens, The Meters, Liquid Liquid, Silver Apples, B52’s, Larry Heard, Joe Gibbs & The Professionals, Charlie Parker, The Sex Pistols, RZA, The Skatalites, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Tom Waits, Philipp Glass, Georges Brassens, Fela Kuti, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Bela Bartok, Nina Simone, Esther Phillips, The Cramps, Gabriel Fauré, Jeff Mills, The Stooges, Marcia Griffiths, Mouse On Mars, Donald Byrd, Darius Milhaud, Duke Ellington, etc, etc...
Other artists and creators like Vincent Van Gogh, Jacques Callot, Pablo Picasso, Pieter Bruegel, Gustave Courbet, Otto Dix, Hieronymus Bosch, Geoffrey Reggio, Henri Maccheroni, Edward Curtis, Takeshi Kitano, Charles Baudelaire, Fransisco de Goya, Helmut Newton, Frida Khalo, Francis Bacon, Vélasquez, Neville Brody, Chris Marker, Andy Warhol, Jean Rouch, Anonyms who are unfairly categorized as "primitive" artists, Martin Scorcese, Gustav Klimt, Yves Klein, Kasimir Malevitch, Georges Méliès, Sandro Botticelli, Stanley Kubrick, Frank Capra, William Blake, Etienne Jules Marey, Egon Schiele, Orson Wells, Auguste Rodin, Akira Kurosawa, Marcel Duchamp, Jim Jarmush, David Lynch, Terry Rodgers, Shigeki Hayashi, Francis Picabia, Mark Rothko, Vassili Kandinsky, etc...
Writers like Michel Foucault, Norbert Wiener, Roland Barthes, Dante Alighieri, Henri Desroche, Mary Douglas, Franz Kafka, Claude Levi-Strauss, René Barjavel, and so many others that it would be too long to list...
Various things like exploring different levels of reality by living beside different kind of people, travels, trying to watch everything (even what you may think is the worst), stopping sometimes to think about what i saw.