Michael Liston

Music:

Member Since: 10/4/2005
Band Website: michaelmusic.wordpress.com/
Band Members:
As a side-serving/person, Michael plays with many fine combinations of musicians and their instruments and song.
You can hear examples of that kind of thing from the people who write those songs. The bio/resume over yonder has some good suggestions.
Of that music which Michael writes himself, you can hear a bit of that here.
On his [as-yet unreleased] debut, the "Dream of the Dead Caribou EP"(co-produced by all-round great guy and original Rheostatic Dave Clark), the [fantabulous] personnel are:
doug tielli - trombone, xylophone
christine bougie - lap steel, acoustic, and electric guitars
mariah burton - vocal ninjitsu
lesley hoyles - choral olympics ['carry-on crow']
dave clark - thigh slappin' and add. vocals ['dream of the dead caribou']
hannah - vocal caribou channeling ['dream of the dead caribou']
sophie the cat - cat vocals ['carry-on crow']
michael liston - singin', banjo, doublebass (plucked, bowed, scarfed, struck), karaoke box
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and on the "lumston" session, the personnel is:
aaron lumley - one doublebass, singlet
michael liston - another doublebass, singlet
Influences:
thank you : all the musicians and people and places that have touched and rubbed-off, the sum of its parts, the road, trembling aspens, the railway club, the last sip of coffee, something beautiful held over the balcony's edge, an awkward moment, your front porch, humous and crusty bread, mrs.wilson's string classes.
music, then and now : bill frisell, calexico, aphex twin, shostakovich, mingus, duke, bela fleck, woodie guthrie, bill laswell, hank williams, the hip, bill monroe, iron and wine, youssou n'dour, sigur ros, the police, skinny puppy, lhasa, fugazi, r.e.m., king tubby, joni, hawksley, emmylou, ani d., zappa, tom waits, toumani diabate, grapes of wrath, shooglenifty, veda hille, ben folds five, jerry douglas, rheostatics, weakerthans, de la soul, massive attack, zubot and dawson, tori amos, wilco, miles, jolie holland, cinematic orchestra, bill evans, bjork, jess hill, rae spoon, mark berube, christa couture, aaron joyce, jeff younger, james lamb, final fantasy, tarran the tailor.
bass-ic touchstones : Charlie Mingus, Ray Brown, Mike Oldfield, Mike Mills, Jim Creegan, Charlie Haden, Jaco Pastorius, James Jamerson, Robbie Shakespeare, Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem, George Porter Jr., Edgar Myer, Tony Levin, Jymie Merrit, Les Claypool, Ben Allison, Bootsie, Gord Sinclair, Dave Holland, Torsten Muller, Wilbert de Joode.
Sounds Like: wood, metal, flesh, and blood
Type of Label: Major