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Member Since: 19/02/2008
Band Website: www.sebastianspeaks.com
Band Members: william tyler, with occasional support from ryan norris, paul niehaus, other sympathetic friends
Influences: suni mcgrath, sun city girls, nurse with wound, sandy bull, ted lucas, john fahey, peter walker, philip jeck, roy montgomery, tower recordings, omar khorshid, durutti column, meat puppets, kalidescope (us), chet atkins, sonny sharrock, gavin bryars
Sounds Like: what i hope the landscape sounded like in din attar’s "conference of the birds"
Record Label: apparent extent/sebastian speaks
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Upcoming tour with Eric Carbonara

In spite of recession and rising gas prices, my good friend Eric Carbonara and I are embarking on a two week crawl up the spine of the original thirteen colonies. It took Grant a year to reach Richmon...
Posted by on Fri, 29 May 2009 08:51:00 GMT

Spring news, farewell to winter blooze

Hello all!A spate of happenings here in my world. Sebastian Speaks is currently working on the amazing new Forest Bride lp, a reissue of the insanely rare 1970's release by Vernon Wray, "Wasted", one ...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:56:00 GMT

cool shout out in Dusted

Hello allKoen from Mountains was kind enough to give me a shout out in his round up list for Dusted:http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/820I will be posting some Indochinese photos soon, maybe even...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:22:00 GMT

interview with schall und raum radio

Well ok, it ain't Frost vs Nixon but my friend Monique from Berlin interviewed me a few weeks ago for her internet radio show "Schall und Raum". Thanks to her for her generosity and patience. I sound ...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:29:00 GMT

on returning to the Volunteer state

I have never harbored warm feelings about the Atlanta airport, but being surrounded by a fleet of tv monitors at the gate flashing images of "President Elect Barack Obama" stirred something sentimenta...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:42:00 GMT