Member Since: 5/24/2006
Band Website: www.soundclick.com/spoolensemble
Band Members: Spool Ensemble consists of the core members Aaron Bachelder (drums,marimba,vibraphone,live processing,percussion) & Michael Thomas Jackson (clarinet,bassclarinet,electronics,objects). Past & present collaborators include Joel Lambdin (violin), Speight Rhue (guitar), Bob Holub (accordion,guitar,electronics), Coa Schwab (oboe), Brian Osborne (percussion), Eugene Chadbourne (guitar,banjo,contraption), Adrian Dimond (circuit-bent electronics), Matt Smith (guitar,dobro,trumpet,violin), Pat Lawrence (contrabass), Lathan Hardy (saxophone), Jay Dunbar (contrabass), Morgan Kraft (fretless electric guitar) and David Menestres (contrabass).
Influences: Webern, Braxton, Feldman, The AACM, Donatoni, Bailey, Ligeti, Ayler, etc
Sounds Like: "A sort of violent Stockhausen" - Vital Weekly
Record Label: Heat Retention, Rabbot, Microearth, Primecuts
Type of Label: Indie