I play bass. Mostly, I improvise. You can hear some clips of me improvising on my bass in various situations right here.
Sometimes, I feel like this:
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other times, I feel like this:
Member Since: 1/12/2005
Band Website: tomblancarte.com
Band Members: Tom Blancarte - bass
Sparks
Peter Evans - piccolo trumpet
Tom Blancarte - bass
Totem
Bruce Eisenbeil - guitar
Andrew Drury - drums
Tom Blancarte - bass
Who Put The Bad Mouth On Me
Dave Smith - trombone
Lathan Hardy - tenor sax
Will Jones - baritone sax
Nick Chapman - analog synth
Tom Blancarte - bass
Conor Elmes - drums
Torus
Drew Pitcher - alto sax
Alejandro Florez - guitar
Tom Blancarte - bass
Peter Evans Quartet
Peter Evans - trumpet
Brandon Seabrook - guitar and banjo
Tom Blancarte - bass
Kevin Shea - drums
Of/Ether
Jeremiah Cymerman - clarinet
Amie Weiss - violin
Sam Kulik - trombones
Tom Blancarte - bass
Influences: Evan Parker, Scott LaFaro, Anthony Braxton, Mike Tyson, Idries Shah, Wayne Shorter, Michael Bakunin, Slayer, John Zorn, Mark Dresser, the ocean, Mark Rothko, Pablo Neruda, Ray Brown, Charlie Parker, Morbid Angel, J.S. Bach, Anton Von Webern, Bud Powell, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Barry Guy, Soseki, Dostoyevsky, Sparks, Belgium and it's wonderful brews, Aldous Huxley, George Lewis, Bill Evans, Metallica, Talking Heads, pommes frites, Gary Peacock, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, plants, Thelonious Monk, Ami Yoshida, Victor Jara, Chet Baker, watching the Blue Planet, uncomfortable situations, Jorge Luis Borges, the sound of cicadas in the summer, Cryptopsy, Bill Dixon, Taku Sugimoto, Keith Jarrett, bridges, Ned Rothenberg, Mike Patton, Radiohead, the Police, Ornette Coleman, the taste of great bourbon (particularly Booker's and Wild Turkey Rare Breed), Albert Ayler, Bjork, Willem De Kooning, Derek Bailey, having sex, Sergio Leone, Cecil Taylor, Peter Brotzmann, Andrei Tarkovsky, John Coltrane, Tim Berne, David Lynch, Dave Douglas, all kinds of maps, Charles Bukowski, my insane family, Tom Robbins, Jack DeJohnette, Paul Bley, Ground Zero, sushi, Dmitri Shostakovich, Julie Taymore, Todd Solondz, Ikue Mori, working a 9-5, Otomo Yoshihide, trying to learn Japanese, Kenzaburo Oe, Borah Bergman, frogs croaking during the night, Paul Lytton, the Ruins, Sophocles, raising insects, JRR Tolkien, Cantillon Geuze, Giacinto Scelsi, Black Sabbath, Dave Holland, Emperor, Captain Kirk beating the Kobayashi Maru, Iannis Xenakis, Marilyn Crispell, John Cage, William Parker, Tom Waits, Agusti Fernandez, being picked on as a kid, Miles Davis, Tom Rainey, Gyorgi Ligeti, Joe and Matt Maneri, mirrors, Barre Phillips, Conrad Baer, Takashi Miike, sounds of the city, Denman Maroney, Andrzej Zulawski, Plato, Brigit Riley, Johnny Cash, Sonny Rollins, Gerhard Richter, Alex Von Schlippenbach, Milton Nascimento, Peter Kowald, Sun Ra, Roscoe Mitchell, Jackson Pollock, Paul Motian, chasing dragonflies in the summer, Igor Stravinsky, Joanna Newsom, playing the euphonium for 7 years, Aki Takase, Matts Gustafsson, Ulver, chips and salsa, Paul Rutherford, John Butcher, Stanley Kubrick, soccer, Clint Eastwood, trying to play Go, Roman Polanski, Wim Wenders, Begotten, the theme to M*A*S*H (with lyrics), Blade Runner, hiking up mountains in Japan, Akira Kurosawa, Woody Allen, plant life, Harmony Korine, video games (especially any Zelda), Apocalypse Now, breezes, Planet of the Apes, not having a real ethnicity, Conan the Barbarian, old monster movies, Billy Madison, Takeshi Kitano, Todd Solondz, my high school calculus class, Star Wars, Lost in Translation, not knowing how to ride a bike, The Twilight Zone, The Office and Seinfeld, H.P. Lovecraft, Graham Lock, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Octavio Paz, canines and felines, Albert Camus, Robert Heinlein, Samuell Beckett, Lautreamont, pornography, Anton Chekov, William Faulkner, Charles Baudelaire, Frank Herbert, Aeschylus, ancient civilizations, Kobo Abe, Franz Kafka, Stefane Mallarme, Federico Garcia Lorca, Yukio Mishima, Tor Norretranders, Richard Heinberg, Thomas Hardy, six months on a cruise ship, Carlos Fuentes, Cannibal Corpse, Sam Rivers, the Bhagavad Gita, playing chess
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