Member Since: 3/29/2006
Band Website: this one
Band Members: "Civic Posse" features Henrique de Almeida on drums, Kirk Knuffke on trumpet, me on bass; the other tracks are me goofing around on my computer with various basses, keyboards, a Line 6 delay pedal, and samples.
Influences: King Tubby, Jaco Pastorius, Dave Douglas, James Jamerson, Portishead, Squarepusher, Uri Caine, Ben Monder, Jim Black, Cuong Vu, Dori Caymmi, Milton Nascimento, Djavan, Boomish!(their CD 'Clearance Sale' I have listened to about 1,000 times - sorry guys, I shamelessly steal from you),Peter Tosh, Theo Bleckmann/John Hollenbeck, Skuli Sverrison (a very deep Icelandic musician whose bass playing on albums like Chris Speed's "Emit" and Ben Monder's "Excavation" is devastating), Boards of Canada, The Aphex Twin, Stanley Kubrick, Godard, P.T. Anderson, Marcus Miller, Robert Altman, Adam Benjamin's "It's a Standard, Standard, Standard, Standard World," Marjoe Gortner's performance in the movie "Earthquake," organic peanut butter, The Village People, director's DVD commentaries for "The French Connection," "Boogie Nights," and "M*A*S*H"(the Altman movie, not the TV show), anything Tim Lefebvre, Jesse Murphy, Meshell, or Pino Palladino play bass on, the Ohio Players, the sound of a 17-string fretless bass being dropped off a loading dock and splitting in half, and global warming.
Sounds Like: Ben Monder, Patti LaBelle, and Charles Nelson Reilly having a party
Record Label: Con Troppo
Type of Label: Indie