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About Me

Clapham Omnibus is an artist, and a philistine. He is intelligent, and a fool. He is loved, and he is despised. He is cool, and he is a loser. He is a leader, and he is a follower. He is a warmonger, and he is a hippy. An obese old man, and a starving young child. He is a Christian, a Muslim, a Jew, a Buddhist, a Hindu, and an Atheist. He is George Bush, and he is John Kerry, and he is Saddam Hussein. He is a fireman in New York and he is Osama Bin Laden. He is determined, and he is confused. He is you, and he is me.
The music here was inspired by life, by death, by humanity, by inhumanity, by love, by hate, by forgiveness, by bitterness, by the "Other" which is often referred to as God (or Jehova, or Allah, or one of his many other names), by existence without the Other, by beauty, and by those times when beauty is the last thing we see. This world is so beautiful... and yet, at times, a complete shit hole.
Sometimes the music just comes to me, and in such instances, the music speaks to me the same way it speaks to you. Other times, the music is developed through sweat, blood, and tears. And in the process, in the journey, in the wandering of the search for art and beauty, something that wasn't now is. In the same way creation myths and legends start with chaos that is shaped in to what is existence, music comes from the chaos of ideas, notes, sounds, and words to become existence. I am not so proud a man to claim such creation as my own, for we all contribute. I alone am not Clapham. We are Clapham.
Mr. Clapham and Mr. Wembly Shadwell are dear friends and can often be seen enjoying and playing music together.
I See (But Not Clearly)

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Member Since: 5/13/2006
Band Website: purevolume.com/claphamomnibus
Band Members: Jon Duenas and various others.

Some others have included Enoch Kim, Matt Boll, Karl Kling, Becky Beighley, and Steve Robbins.
Influences: Truth, Life and death, paradoxes, Beauty, Love and hate, random noises throughout the day, time travel.

Musical influences include but are not limited to:

Arvo PÃ¤rt, Sigur RÃ³s, Explosions in the Sky, Broken Social Scene, Unwed Sailor, mewithoutYou, M. Ward, Amiina, MÃºm, Mogwai, Brian Eno, Saxon Shore, The Mars Volta, Radiohead, Do Make Say Think, Daniel Lanois, Led Zeppelin, Anathallo, Berry, BjÃ¶rk, Eric Whitacre, Bob Dylan, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lovedrug
Sounds Like: The soundtrack of a sleepwalker's dream
Type of Label: None

My Blog

So this is the New Year...

And it brings a new phase of Clapham. As most probably don't know, Clapham was a solo project of mine while away from my band for the semester in Martha's Vineyard. But now that the semester is over a...
Posted by Clapham Omnibus on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:35:00 PST

I see (but not clearly)...

A new video has been uploaded of a currently unrecorded song titled "I See (But Not Clearly)". Just go to my page and find it at the bottom of the bio section. It isn't the most perfect performance, b...
Posted by Clapham Omnibus on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:31:00 PST

free music for all...

Hello friends. Good news. A new, slightly remixed version of "December 22nd" was just uploaded earlier tonight. And as an added bonus, I've made it a free download for you to listen to at your own lie...
Posted by Clapham Omnibus on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:43:00 PST

The Ambiguity of Us....

2 new songs have finally been uploaded. The first is the first movement of a song titled "The Ambiguity of Us". The movement is titled "We Were Alone". The second song uploaded is titled "Everything i...
Posted by Clapham Omnibus on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 05:19:00 PST

patience...

It seems whenever I write a blog, I'm tired. But when you get only 3 hours of sleep the night before because you were mixing new songs, that'll happen.Two new songs will be posted very soon.... The on...
Posted by Clapham Omnibus on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:00:00 PST

Wind is fast.... and beautiful....

Today on the ferry ride back to the Vin', I saw a painting by a 4th grader for an assignment that was for the purpose of showing what an alternate energy source island would look like. The child title...
Posted by Clapham Omnibus on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:25:00 PST

I still love you though New York

I'm in New York. Hell ya.Do I have any friends in New York?
Posted by Clapham Omnibus on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:43:00 PST

December 22nd...

According to Mayan legend and their calendar, the end of the fourth world would correlate to the December 21, 2012, on the Gregorian calender.One can only wonder what the next day will hold.A new song...
Posted by Clapham Omnibus on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:01:00 PST

Interpreting the Language of Classical Music

I was asked to write an article for my college's weekly paper back in Greenville. Here is what I wrote...Interpreting the Language of Classical MusicLet me preface this by saying that I am not a music...
Posted by Clapham Omnibus on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:02:00 PST

to my new friends...

I've been thinking, I want to comment on all my friend's spaces. You know, I just don't want to be one of those guys or bands that just add people to increase the amount of friends they have or whore ...
Posted by Clapham Omnibus on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 04:11:00 PST