Music:
Member Since: 2/2/2005
Band Website: usrslashsbin.angrek.com/
Band Members: Me ... and a hardworking guitar, along with some overworked, obsolete hardware. For the gearheads ... as follows.
In the rack:
Roland GI-20,
Roland XV2020,
TC Electronics G Major,
Lexicon MX200,
Lexicon Vortex
On the floor:
Behringer FCB1010,
Roland GR-20,
Roland GigaDelay DD-20 "A",
Roland GigaDelay DD-20 "E"
In the hands:
A Godin xtSA guitar and an Ebow
What else does one need?
Influences: Performing under the influences? Abso-freaking-lutely ...
Start with the Renaissance ... Dufay ... Machaut ... move on to the Baroque and you find the usual and not-so-usual suspects ... Frescobaldi ... the Gabrielis ... Monteverdi ("Orpheo" is the point from which all opera must descend) Heinrich Schütz ... Dowland (of course, seven of them ... that's a pun, BTW), Holborne, Byrd, Orlando di Lasso, Tobias Hume, Purcell, Mudarra, Attaignant, Neusidler, and later still, Vivaldi, J. S. Bach, Arcangelo Corelli, Johann Pachelbel, Heironymous Praetorius, Dominico and Alessandro Scarlatti, Charpentier, Lully, Couperin, Rameau, Lalande, Antonio Soler, Carlos Seixas, ...
In modern times, the music of Arvo Pärt, Allen Hovhaness, Leos Janacek, Antonin Dvorak, Claude Bolling, Bedric Smetana, Alexander Borodin ... the Shankars, both Ravi and Anoushka, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Terry Riley, Steve Roach, John Serrie, The Tragically Hip, Tangerine Dream, Shiva's Headband, Spinfield, Michael Stearns, Deuter, Roger Eno, Harold Budd, Constance Demby, Paul Avgerinos, Mark Isham, Ray Lynch, Yehudi Menuhin, Andre Segovia, Paul Odette, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Howe, Bela Fleck, Ottmar Liebert ... where to stop?
The mountains and the sea, the fog and the sun ...
Sounds Like: Just listen to it, loud in the dark, and decide for yourself. Some folks prefer it with mushrooms, some with a fine Cabernet...all I care is whether you listen or not. Some say Frippian, some say Eno-esque, shades of Roach and Shankar lurking in there.
If you need a category, it's self-indulgent minimilast Post-Rock improvisation with an eclectic classical post-Stockhausen non-Hindemithean sensibility...go chew on that, thou poser, if you truly feel the need for categories.
Record Label: audiozoloft.com
Type of Label: Indie
