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ColoringBook

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About Me

ColoringBook is the working title of a three-part set of mostly instrumental, full-length recordings. The tracks on this page are random selections from any of the three, updated infrequently. The complete records may be downloaded as they are finished in a higher bitrate MP3 format here . Several talented individuals contributed to these recordings, and many thanks are due them. These pieces may or may not feature Shannon Fortune on drums, keys, synths, and guitar, Elanor Leskiw on trombone, Don Schwieger on percussion, Cynthia Main on cello, Tony Lazarro on drums, and quite a few other people on a few other instruments who I will name when it becomes unavoidably necessary. The pieces here may or may not also feature me, Clayton Counts, on guitar, piano, keys, synths, drums, vibraphone, assorted electronics, and a broken harpsichord. Unless noted, all titles written, arranged, and produced by Clayton Counts, with generous assistance provided by Shannon Fortune, Garo Tokat, and Josh Jacobs, along with everybody at Wall to Wall . These records are the result of my general revulsion at American influence on Japanese culture. This is not to say that I hate America, or that I'm a freedom-hating terrorist. I am always interested in remixing / reconceptualizing others' work, in addition to collaborating on outside projects, so hit me up if you like, but please be patient if I am unable to get back to you right away. Thanks for listening. Also, can we stop hating on the haters so much? It's hypocritical meritmongering, and it's a hackneyed theme. Ostensibly aboveboard, but really just kind of glib. Now, a word or two about this MySpace business. If a few weeks go by and I still haven't written you back, please forgive me. I'm getting an average of twenty add requests a day, and between ten and fifty messages, so many of the messages in my inbox are getting bumped way back in a matter of days. I simply don't have enough time to keep up with it. If you want to get a message to me directly, please send it to: clayton (at) claytoncounts (dot) com. Do not expect me to accept any six hundred megapixel advertisements posted as comments. That's not how I roll. If you added me just to whore your band, get bent. I accept almost everyone's friendship, but I don't have a 'Whore Me' button and I never will. Take a lesson. If you're in a band, or else you're some wannabe starlet, brooding indie loser, or disaffected punk thirty years behind the times, and you want to add me, I'll reluctantly agree to it, but if you post some garbage about how I need to check out your songs and leave you a comment, you will be deleted promptly. That goes for any of you fledgling producers, as well. This is my digital real estate, and I'm not particularly friendly. That is all.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/29/2004
Band Website: claytoncounts.com
Band Members: Hey, I'm just the messenger.
Influences: Morton Subotnick
Pierre Schaeffer
Otto Luening
Edgard Varese
Raymond Scott
Alexander Scriabin
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Iannis Xenakis
Olivier Messiaen
Luigi Russolo
Throbbing Gristle
Magma
Gyorgi Ligeti
Juan Garcia Esquivel
Ornette Coleman
Charles Mingus
Bernard Hermann
John Cage
AMM
Lee Perry
Jacques Brel
Scott Joplin
Charlie Parker
Henry Mancini
Serge Gainsbourg
Cole Porter
W.C. Handy
Fats Waller
Ennio Morricone
Dmitry Shostakovich
Francesco Manfredini
Eric Satie
Sergei Prokofiev
Igor Stravinsky
Claude Debussy
Pierre Boulez
Heinrich Schutz
Hector Berlioz
Leszek Jankowski
Carl Ruggles
Arturo Toscanini
Luigi Nono
Haydn
Puccini
Beethoven
Liszt
Handel
Chopin
Schoenberg
Gershwin
Ravel
Bizet
Dvorak
Mahler
Villa-Lobos
Schumann
Grieg
Bartok
Janacek
Mendelssohn
Rameau
Mozart
Purcell
Rachmaninoff
Vivaldi
Brahms
Wagner
Schubert
Tchaikovsky
Verdi
Jean Luc Godard
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Kevin Shields
Robert Smith
Thurston Moore
Robin Guthrie
David Pearce
Syd Barrett
Jimi Hendrix
Leonard Cohen
Roy Harper
Ike Turner
Billy Mure
Les Paul
Roy Smeck
John Fahey
Django Reinhardt
Elmore James
Lightnin' Hopkins
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Joel Hodgson
Michael J. Nelson
Kevin Murphy
Trace Beaulieu
Frank Conniff
Jim Mallon
Wes Montgomery
Robyn Hitchcock
David Gedge
Phil Ochs
Daniel Johnston
Rainer Ptacek
John Lennon
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney
George Martin
George Gershwin
Burt Bacharach
Kaffe Matthews
Tipsy
Matmos
Soft Pink Truth
Venetian Snares
Donna Summer
KK Null
Christian Marclay
Ikue Mori
Jessica Bailiff
Prefuse 73
MF Doom
Tortoise
People Like Us
Daedalus
LFO
Slowdive
Moose
Low
Stars of the Lid
Bedhead
Pixies
Stereolab
Lush
Pavement
The Sugarcubes
Yo La Tengo
Michael Jackson
Kali Bahlu
Buddy Merrill
Dizzy Gillespie
Russ Garcia
Pepe Romero
Mort Garson
Herbie Hancock
Klaus Wunderlich
Bert Kaempfert
Ernesto Cortazar
Oscar Peterson
Sonny Boy Williamson
Chick Webb
Andre Popp
Kraftwerk
MDC
Zebra
Saxon
Le Trim
Mary Monday
Shooby Taylor
Henri Rene
Roy Acuff
Tom Lehrer
Lindy Lane
Arthur Fields
Barrington Levy
Señor Coconut
The Coup
DJ Premier
Beatnuts
O.C. Smith
Left Banke
Edison Lighthouse
Peppermint Rainbow
1910 Fruitgum Company
Noonday Underground
Richard Hell & the Voidoids
Siouxsie & the Banshees
AIDS Mistaken for SARS
Godspeed! You Black Emperor
Experimental Audio Research
Nautical Almanac
Horsehead Bookends
Merzbow
Whitehouse
Anal Cunt
Doormouse
Madlib
Hardnoise
KMD
3rd Bass
De La Soul
Souls of Mischief
Wu-Tang Clan
Geto Boys
RJD2
The Neptunes
Prince Paul
Barry White
Curtis Mayfield
Isaac Hayes
Nelson Riddle
Glenn Miller
Stevie Wonder
Al Green
Al Sharpton
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Al Roker
Wesley Willis
Willie Tyler & Lester
Lester Bangs
Simon Reynolds
John Peel
Squarepusher
Muslimgauze
Negativland
Aphex Twin
Liquid Mice
Butthole Surfers
Dinosaur Jr.
The Specials
The Ventures
Calypso Facto
The Dream Revengers
Beat Cop
Jesus & Mary Chain
Rocketship
Boyracer
The Crabs
The Glands
Palaxy Tracks
Beulah
The Lilys
The Modern Lovers
Half Japanese
Talulah Gosh
Esrevnoc
Kathy McGinty
Tim Hecker
Dean Elliott
Joe Meek
Bruce Haack
Joy Division
Manitoba
Culturcide
Royal Trux
Corn Pone
Minch
Foetus
Can
Wire
X
The Cranes
The Buzzcocks
The Meatshits
Stiff Little Fingers
The Misfits
The Dead Kennedys
The Ramones
The Kinks
The Vaselines
The Cramps
Beat Happening
The Shaggs
The Velvet Underground
The Stone Roses
Mercury Rev
Psychedelic Furs
Frank Zappa
Brian Eno
The Charmer
Brother Russell
Criswell
Mel Blanc
Fred Rogers
Buckminster Fuller
W.C. Fields
Louis Fienberg
Jerome Horwitz
Moses Horwitz
Samuel Horwitz
Joe Besser
Joseph Wardell
Adolph Marx
Julius Marx
Leonard Marx
Milton Marx
Herbert Marx
Charles Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Julia Child
Robert Tilton
Mr. T
Korla Pandit
The Photos
Fuzzbox
Altered Images
Melvin Van Peebles
Shannon Fortune
Garo Tokat
Fred Mangan
Dexter St. Jacques
Mister Fuckhead
Bubblegum Shitface
Rotten Milk
Schizowave
Nobody Nothing
Lucius Tate
Jim Henson
Skip James
James Earl Jones
Paula Jones
Dr. Ruth
Mrs. Miller
Bill Cosby
Telly Savalas
Jim Backus
Walter Brennan
Carroll O'Connor
Jean Stapleton
Maureen Stapleton
Capleton
Count Chocula
Battlestar Scott Bakula
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Witold Gombrowicz
John Irving
John Updike
Philip Roth
Marshall McLuhan
Gabriel García Márquez
Martin Heidegger
Norman Mailer
Saul Bellow
Klaus Kinski
Peter O'Toole
Big Bill Broonzy
Benjamin Disraeli
Sound Dimension
Earth, Wind and Fire
Herve Villechaize
Wally Cox
Scatman Crothers
Yma Sumac
Otomo Yoshihide
Free Design
PDQ Bach
101 Strings
Fantastic Plastic Machine
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Hot Butter
Perrey & Kingsley
Boards of Canada
Cheo Feliciano
Leadbelly
Piero Umiliani
Slum Village
Whodini
Mantronix
Funky Four Plus One
Laika & the Cosmonauts
Paul Revere & the Raiders
Gary Lewis & the Playboys
Paul Bearer & the Hearsemen
Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs
? & the Mysterians
The Funky Meters
The Debonaires
Modest Mouse
Shorty Rogers
LaWanda Page
Johnny Rivers
Billy Paul
Jimmy Jones
Bobby Beausoleil
Charles Manson
Lucio Fulci
Elzie Crisler Segar
Desmond Tutu
Christopher Hitchens
Broken Social Scene
Absolute Body Control
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
The Octopus Project
The Rubble
Nig Heist
Carcass
Warlock Pinchers
Jackie Wilson
Grady Tate
Professor Longhair
Smokey Robinson
Walter Schumann
Ray Charles
Martha & the Vandellas
Jasper & the Prodigal Sons
Einstuerzende Neubauten
Go Home Productions
Patrick McGoohan
Robert Passera
Edith Piaf
Claudine Longet
Josephine Baker
Steve Reich
Alvin Lucier
Henry Clay
Tiny Tim
Charles Nelson Reilly
Norman Fell
Erase Errata
Country Donuts
Gentle Giant
Nell Carter
Gary Usher
Willie Nelson
Johnny Cash
Peter Sutcliffe
Edmund Kemper
Albert Fish
Chikatilo
Mary Bell
H.H. Holmes
Charles Whitman
Jack the Ripper
Spring Heeled Jack
Edward Gorey
Jim Woodring
Robert Williams
Chris Ware
Robert Crumb
Charles Schulz
Bob May
E.M. Viquesney
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Loch Ness Monster
David Grace, Steerfucker
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
John Kennedy Toole
Christopher Walken
Gary Oldman
Gary Coleman
Benjamin Franklin
Eric Satie
Jandek
Prince
Sun Ra
Jay Dee
Blowfly
Rick James
James Brown
Maceo Parker
Fred Wesley
Bootsy Collins
Eddie Harris
Tony Williams
Ray Kurzweil
Bob Moog
Mark Pauline
SL Troopers
Public Enemy
Eric B & Rakim
Pharoah Monche
Pharoah Sanders
Etta James
Alfred Apaka
Ronnie Spector
Phil Spector
Arlen Specter (R-PA)
Pearl Bailey
Minnie Pearl
Rhea Perlman
Man-E-Faces
Father Abraham
Al Jolson
Don Ho
Don Walser
Doc Watson
Dokken
Kurt Kren
Don Ameche
Freddie McGregor
Life Without Buildings
Booker T & the MGs
The Roots
Nite-Liters
Moms Mabley
Garland Green
Subjex
Ed Sanders
Dobie Gray
Jackie Mittoo
The Gators
The Raincoats
The Bell Sisters
Mission of Burma
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Jelly Roll Morton
Pigmeat Markham
Louis Prima
Keely Smith
Brian Wilson
Ludacris
Mystikal
Akwid
Etnnia
Jega
Windy & Carl
Split Lip Rayfield
Kids of Widney High
Longmont Potion Castle
Benito Sparkledonkey
Terry Plumming
Terry Bradshaw
Jackie Chan
Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
Terry Gilliam
Ivan Dobsky
Hello Mikey
SHAM DINGUS
Rumplestiltskin
Methuselah
Caiaphas
John the Divine
Cheikh Anta Diop
Alex Darkwah
Muddy Waters
Odin
Loki
Nai-No Kami
Krishna
Brahma
Vishnu
Shiva
Zeus
Thor
Jesus Effing Christ
God Almighty
Mr. Peppermint
Tom & Jerry
Popeye
Ghandi
Dondi
Bambi
Satan
Myxlplyk
ZRMFXL
Lenny Bruce
Bill Hicks
Richard Pryor
Andy Kaufman
David Letterman
Agnes Moorehead
Shirley MacLaine
Myrna Loy
Tuesday Weld
Olivia de Havilland
Phil Donahue
Jerry Springer
Dale Carnegie
Anthony "Tony" Robbins
Jeff Smith, the Frugal Gourmet
Charles Montgomery Burns
Don Knotts
John Waters
Akira Kurosawa
Sam Peckinpah
Ingmar Bergman
Woody Allen
Lindsay Anderson
Mike Leigh
Federico Fellini
John Cassavetes
Werner Herzog
Sam Fuller
Annie Oakley
Larry Harlow
Bonga
Cubanismo
Os Mutantes
Motorhead
Thelonious Monk
Miles Davis
Eric Dolphy
Buddy Guy
Link Wray
Art Tatum
Stan Goetz
Tony Clifton
George Hamilton
Russ Meyer
Henry Darger
William Shatner
Bob Keeshan
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Alexander von Humboldt
Giovanni da Verrazano
Robert Bartlett
Zheng He
Ptolemy
Hipparchus
Aristarchus
Eratosthenes
Nasir al Din Tusi
Nicolaus Copernicus
Turkmenbashi the Great
William Morris Davis
Katsushika Hokusai
Ehrich Weiss
Vladimir Horowitz
Ferdinand Cheval
Honoré de Balzac
John Stuart Mill
Rosemary Clooney
Marie Curie
Hippocrates
Marcello Malpighi
Oliver Onions
Pietro Bembo
Samuel L. Clemens
Philadelphia Fightsters
Archie Bell & the Drells
JJ Fad
CB4
NWA
DJ Jazzy Jeff
Count Bass D
Doug E Fresh
Clan Urbano
Rev. Ivan Stang
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
Paul Reubens
Crispin Glover
Spud Webb
Napoleon Bonaparte
Old Mother Hubbard
Mr. Whipple
Mrs. Butterworth
Nashid Sulaiman
Sascha Baron Cohen
The Coen Brothers
The Brothers Quay
Harry Smith
Jan Svankmajer
Roman Polanski
Robert Florey
Orson Welles
H.G. Wells
Raymond Chandler
Dashiell Hammett
William Shakespeare
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Sir Thomas Urquhart
Jean Baudrillard
Richard Kostelanetz
George Steiner
Dr. Robert White
Mayor McCheese
Nathalie Sarraute
Jean Genet
Eugene Ionesco
Raymond Carver
Thomas Hardy
Marcus Garvey
Ring Lardner
Walter/Wendy Carlos
William Carlos Williams
Billy Dee Williams
William S. Burroughs
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Franz Kafka
Georges Bataille
Charles Baudelaire
Noam Chomsky
Miroslav Holub
Vladimir Nabokov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anton Chekhov
Leo Tolstoy
Francisco Goya
Mihail Bulgakov
Alexander Sumarokov
François Rabelais
Gelett Burgess
Studs Terkel
Eric Hoffer
Joe Frank
Ken Nordine
Nipsey Russell
Paul Lynde
The Yes Men
Chris Morris
Lloyd DeFranco
Zekial Marko
Zero Mostel
Helmut Doring
Charles Grodin
Horatio Quaxton
Gerald McRaney
Martha Raye
Ray Kroc
Walter Cronkite
Jack Chick
Michelangelo
Boris Yeltsin
Socrates
Petronius
Euripides
Critias
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Astyages
Harpagus
Rasputin
Ovid
Rumi
Charo
Mysterio
Ghidorah
Megalon
Gamera
Rodan
Gojira
Mothra
Topol
Horta
Ægir
Balder
Cthulhu
Grendel
Baba Yaga
Mami Wata
Hai-uri
Dazbog
Leviathan
Chrysaor
Amaterasu
Quetzalcoatl
Bandersnatch
The Bogeyman
Mephistopheles
David L. Lander
Thomas (not Tom) Wolfe
Philip K. Dick
Samuel Delaney
Richard Brautigan
John Steinbeck
Ambrose Bierce
Roland Topor
James Joyce
P.T. Barnum
Oliver Cromwell
Rupert Murdoch
Bob Barker
Judge Wapner
Star Jones
Oprah
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Sounds Like: Feathers and rakes.
Record Label: Record what?
Type of Label: Major