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Brandon Valdivia

brandonvaldivia

About Me

hello.i play drums and percussion with picastro, place hands, i have eaten the city, kyle brenders' trio and large ensemble, slowly slowly, colin fisher, geordie haley's sea of song trio, isla craig, and percussion in friendlyness and the human rights!i also do a lot of improvised music with lots of different people like aaron lumley, jonathan adjemian, michael snow, john oswald, ken aldcroft. etc. etc. etc....i also compose sometimes. the two solo tracks heard on here are a couple older pieces from my schooling days, and the trio track is also from a few years ago.maybe i should put some newer music up...

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Music:

Member Since: 12/3/2005
Influences: Ed Blackwell, Hamid Drake, Elvin Jones, John Cage, Morton Feldman, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Han Bennink, Talking Heads, Krishnamurti, Hafiz, Rumi, the Dalai Lama, Ghandi, Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, Misha Mengelberg, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Culture, Burning Spear, Chris Murray, Billie Holiday, Bjork, Erik Satie, James Tenney, Duke Ellington, Refused, Shona mbira music, Qawwali music, Malian music, Ghanaian music, Indonesian music, fugazi, Beethoven, early music, Baroque music, John Cassavetes, Carl Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, Stan Brakhage, Pedro Almodovar, Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, Helen Frankenthaler, Edvard Munch, Jackson Pollock, Haiku, Arthur Rimbaud, Pablo Neruda...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

details of pieces

"Lying Down": composed by Brandon Valdivia and played by Jon Kraemer
Posted by Brandon Valdivia on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:59:00 PST

details of pieces

"But Only When": played by the Living Music Trio (Ilana Waniuk, violin; Kyle Brenders, saxophones: Brandon Valdivia, percussion), composition by Brandon Valdivia. "For Piano": played by Cheryl Duvall,...
Posted by Brandon Valdivia on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:38:00 PST