Member Since: 22/02/2006
Band Members: Max Heath (piano, vocals, etc.), Jonny Rodgers (guitar), Tommy Lee (bass), Mike Petrucci (drums), Danny Salerno (violin).I'm a co-member of the hip-hop production team Ghost Notes . I also play with Anonymous INC , Jonny Rodgers , and Toca , and I have worked and recorded with saxophonist/composer Anthony Braxton . Also, I am the "Official Band of the Upright Citizens Brigade ".
Influences: Animal Collective, Aphex Twin, The Arcade Fire, Autechre, The Avalanches, Battles, Beach Boys, Björk, Blackout Beach, Black Dice, Blur, Boards of Canada, Boredoms, David Bowie, Anthony Braxton, Broken Social Scene, Jeff Buckley, Built to Spill, Circulatory System, John Coltrane, D'Angelo, Miles Davis, Death Cab for Cutie, Debussy, Deerhoof, Deerhunter, Destroyer, The Dirty Projectors, Eric Dolphy, Brian Eno, Morton Feldman, Fennesz, The Flaming Lips, Fog, Frog Eyes, Gastr Del Sol, Marvin Gaye, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Guided By Voices, Joe Henderson, J Dilla, Elvin Jones, Liars, Alvin Lucier, Madlib, Mercury Rev, The Microphones/Mount Eerie, Charles Mingus, Modest Mouse, Thelonious Monk, My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, Panda Bear, Pavement, Portishead, Jonny Rodgers, Jim O'Rourke, Oval, Radiohead, Ravel, Scriabin, The Sea and Cake, Elliott Smith, Sonic Youth, Squarepusher, Stereolab, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sun Ra, Sunset Rubdown, Tortoise, TV on the Radio, Scott Walker, Weezer (pre-1999), Wolf Parade, Stevie Wonder, Yo La Tengo, Frank Zappa & many more...
Sounds Like: As Autumn Ends (live 7/17/08 with Danny Salerno, violin)
Future Song (live 7/17/08 with Danny Salerno, violin)
Selected discography:
2009 - The Brothers Bloom (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (melodica)
2008 - David Ramos - This Up Here (synths/keys/vocals/melodica/accordion)
2008 - Jonny Rodgers - The Aviary (piano)
2008 - Anthony Braxton - Quartet (GTM) 2006 [4CD set] (piano)
2007 - Toca - S/T (piano/keys/melodica/accordian/synths)
2006 - Ceschi - They Hate Francisco False (keys/melodica/vocals)
2005 - Max Heath - Restless
(See the Ghost Notes page for discography with Ghost Notes)
Type of Label: Unsigned