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weasel walter

a calm before the storm - regroup and attack

About Me

OUT SOON:
Mary Halvorson/Weasel Walter "Opulence" CD,
The Flying Luttenbachers "Trauma" CD reissue (brutal free jazz from 2000 - first time on CD!),
Lindsay/Mendoza/Smith/Walter "Jus",
Levin/Looney/Smith/Walter live CD-R
and more
OUT NOW:
Weasel Walter - "Firestorm" cd (74 minutes of brutal free jazz with Marshall Allen, Marco Eneidi, Marc Edwards, Lisle Ellis, Damon Smith, Elliott Levin and Mario Rechtern)
available from ugEXPLODE or CD Baby
Gianni Gebbia/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter - "Lichens" CD
The Flying Luttenbachers - "Incarceration By Abstraction" CD

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WEASEL WALTER QUARTET
featuring. CALVIN WESTON live 2007

WEASEL WALTER DISLOCATION UNIT
LIVE September 2007


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personnel for the five audio tracks posted here:
1. peter evans/weasel walter - this is an untitled improvisation from a concert we did with henry kaiser, jon raskin, damon smith and william winant on january 30, 2008 at 21 grand in oakland, ca
2. an untitled multitrack improvisation from last year with me on all instruments.
3. "continual rage"
weasel walter (drums), marshall allen (alto), elliott levin (tenor), damon smith (bass). from the album "Firestorm" out now on ugEXPLODE Records
4. "bohemian rhapsody"
weasel walter (all instruments and vocals) taken from the 2002 queen tribute album on three one g records
5. "hyperprism/shaking hands and kissing babies" weasel walter (all instruments and vocals) two fucked up comp tracks circa 2004. the first is a varese cover, the second is a song that i wrote for a comp where the guy gave everybody the title and we had to come up with the music. i thought his title was fucking stupid, so the music was inspired by that.
6. weasel walter quartet - "revolt"
weasel walter (drums), john gruntfest (tenor saxophone), damon smith (bass), randy hunt (bass) an excerpt from a track from the new "REVOLT MUSIC" CD out now on ugEXPLODE

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/20/2006
Band Website: nowave.pair.com/weasel_walter
Band Members: weasel walter has played and/or recorded with:

marshall allen
henry kaiser
kevin drumm
erase errata
william winant
peter evans
fred lonberg-holm
jim o'rourke
mary halvorson
harry pussy
marco eneidi
the scissor girls
jeb bishop
ken vandermark
mick barr
kyle bruckmann
michael zerang
and others
weasel walter has also been in many groups including:
The Flying Luttenbachers
Burmese
Lair of the Minotaur
XBXRX
Curse of the Birthmark
Contradiction
To Live and Shave in L.A. 2
The Chicago Sound
Hatewave
Lake Of Dracula
Bobby Conn
7000 Dying Rats

Influences: jack kirby, son of svengoolie, groucho marx, doc savage, kiss, adam and the ants, kid creole and the coconuts, split enz, sex pistols, damned, heartbreakers, contortions, teenage jesus, dna, mars, ornette coleman, albert ayler, cecil taylor, derek bailey, early material, massacre, bad brains, black flag, flipper, 8-eyed spy, red transistor, magma, anton lavey, alejandro jodorowsky, jean michel basquiat, hermann nitsch, mick barr, zach hill, yosuke yamashita trio, red aunts, the screamers, the sweet, masayuki takayanagi, deicide, immortal, dark throne, blasphemy, mayhem, dead kennedys, sadistik exekution, the early cramps, bestial warlust, absu, king crimson '72-'74, john coltrane, balinese gamelan music, essential logic, rasaahn roland kirk, the art ensemble of chicago, the pop group, metal machine music, electric light orchestra, bill dixon, early babes in toyland, sam rivers, bela bartok, god is my co-pilot, yowie, fred lane, borbetomagus, milford graves, keiji haino, anal cunt, whitehouse, early krisiun, nervous gender, univers zero, frank zappa, hawkwind, the gun club, charles k. noyes, charles mingus, captain beefheart, crime, anthony braxton, circle jerks, PiL, siouxsie and the banshees, blurt, early john zorn (up through locus solus), the germs, roxy music, the residents, killing joke, elliott carter, jimmy lyons, magazine, pussy galore, the shaggs, the ramones, early morbid angel, sam rivers, nitro, salvador dali, alexander von schilppenbach, iannis xenakis, present, olivier messiaen, lucia dlugoszewski, harry partch, sun ra, early swans, the tubes, the misfits, amiri baraka, rube goldberg, caroliner, elliott sharp, bettie page, emerson lake and palmer (first four records), irving klaw, eric stanton, yes, john willie, answer me!, glenn branca, james blood ulmer, ronald shannon jackson, archie shepp, last exit, early u.s. maple, igor stravinsky, glass candy, early ruins, terry bozzio, the monkees, peter brotzmann, evan parker, anton webern, edgard varese, obscura by gorguts, arnold schoenberg, roger sessions, devo, 16-17, the pixies, burmese, couch, costes, miles davis, charles tyler, the slits, globe unity orchestra, the frogs, sparks, early usurper, new wave theater, you can't do that on television, night flight, rashied ali, sunny murray, toney oxley, gg allin, amon duul 2, early bikini kill, ruins "stonehenge", boredoms "soul discharge", carla bley, william s. burroughs

XENAKIS

AYLER

MAGMA
DAMNED
FIRST NAME: WEASEL. LAST NAME: WALTER. CHICAGO, AGE 19

Record Label: ugEXPLODE
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

new youtube stuff

here's a couple of clips from a recent improvised music concert i did with damon smith on bass, kristian aspelin on guitar and chicago saxophonist paul hartsaw. it was a good set and i have hopes to r...
Posted by weasel walter on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:30:00 PST

everybody is a critic, so now the words of critics mean nothing

hooboy. so, obviously if you follow my blog you know that i hold special contempt for the bulk of music "critics" out there. i maintain that most of these people are clueless egotists with little or n...
Posted by weasel walter on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:03:00 PST

january free download at ugEXPLODE

http://nowave.pair.com/ugexplode at the bottom lefthand side of the main ordering page you'll find the free download of the flying luttenbachers long out-of-print "retrospektiw III" CD. released in...
Posted by weasel walter on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:17:00 PST

Trailer for the Flying Luttenbachers "Live Cataclysm" DVD!!!!

in the dissolution of the band, i'm still dredging up tons of new stuff that will be released in the wake. one of the main projects is the long awaited "live cataclysm" DVD recorded in 2005 with the c...
Posted by weasel walter on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:45:00 PST

downtown music gallery review of "firestorm"!!!!

WEASEL WALTER QUARTET AND DOUBLE TRIO With MARSHALL ALLEN /MARCO ENEIDI/MARC EDWARDS - Firestorm (ugExplode 22; USA) This colossal offering was recorded at three gigs in New York (Tonic & The Sto...
Posted by weasel walter on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:35:00 PST

some new interviews

weasel walter quoted in guardian UK article about some non-existant "death jazz" trend. new weasel walter interview at no doctors site...
Posted by weasel walter on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:24:00 PST

state of the union

so, the release date for the 4 new ugEX releases will be nov. 15. i will announce a preorder special for the hardcore folks within the next 48 hours. the releases are: the flying luttenbachers - inca...
Posted by weasel walter on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:35:00 PST

random record reviews

there's a lot of stuff to listen to and not so much time to really listen to it all with much intelligence. we have to filter all of this information constantly. we must follow the gut. some music isn...
Posted by weasel walter on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:21:00 PST

oops. my youtube account got deleted. im so naughty.

uh, i blew it and my youtube account has been deleted. they operate from a "3 strikes and you're out" sort of premise. i've been warned several times about copyrights for my ornette on SNL video as ...
Posted by weasel walter on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:21:00 PST

playlist sunday night 10/07

1. psychic tv - n.y. scum live lp. early ptv was pretty ruling and this album recorded live around 1983 is their noisiest most fucked up best. i used to have the vinyl in high school, but sold it to ...
Posted by weasel walter on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:56:00 PST