Member Since: 5/10/2006
Band Members: Chris Hill (bass), Ben Reynolds (drums)
Influences: The Beach Boys, Webern, Azimuth, JOHN TAYLOR, LIAM NOBLE, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Electronic Miles, when the 60s band goes free, Waynes Shorter and Krantz, Joe Henderson, Coltrane not Alice, Herbie, BENOIT DELBECQ and Kartet, Achim Kaufmann, John Zorn, Evan Parker, John Edwards, Chris Speed, Seamus Blake, Dave Douglas, Mark Turner, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jimmy Giuffre 3, PAUL BLEY and his wife, CRAIG TABORN, Thelonious Monk, Fred Hersch, Conlon Nancarrow, Scriabin, Bela Bartok, OLIVIER MESSIAEN, Ligeti, Elliot Carter, PAUL HINDEMITH, Dmitri Shostakovich, Robert Schumann, J.S.Bach, Maria Schneider, LENNIE TRISTANO, Warne Marsh, Frank Zappa, Albert Ayler, Gary Thomas, Squarepusher, Wagon Christ/Plug, Prince, The Police and Led Zepellin Drummers, Autechre, Leafcutter John, Sebastian Roux, Aka Moon, Venetian Snares, Bjork, Tim Berne, Vijay Iyer/Rudresh Mahanthappa, Jason Moran, The Respect Sextet, Cuong Vu, Bill Frisell, Jill Scott, Tribe Called Quest, Stevie, Paco De Lucia, Vicente Amigo, Jean-Paul Sartre, CHRIS MORRIS, Armando Iunicchi, Milan Kundera, Haruki Murakami, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, David Lynch, Lars Von Trier, Jose Saramago, Julio Cortazar, John Fowles, Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, James Joyce, Joyce, Hermeto Pascoal, Oboto, Frank Harrison, Pete Jacobsen, Gary Husband, Ingrid Laubrock, Hans Koller, Asaf Sirkis, Ivo Neame, Brotherly and especially Chris and Ben!!!
Sounds Like: either some kind of schizophrenic indecision between wannabe lyricism and vague odd-time grooves or a cross between the sound your hoover makes when a coin has just got stuck in the nozzle and a poorly chosen loop of the engine sound of the hubble spacecraft at full acceleration
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