Just me, playing a variety of instruments including but not limited to tenor and alto saxophones, cheap wooden flute, Kelly StickCello, keyboards, theremin, Stratus synthesizer, electric and acoustic guitars, electric bass, percussion, windchimes, hand drums, piano, Indonesian rebab, Venezuelan cuatro, e-bowed guitar, gong, air conditioner, all edited and processed via computer.
Influences
Influences relevant to this project include Brian Eno, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, John Cale, Tony Conrad, Rotten Piece, CAN, Cluster, Faust, early Tangerine Dream, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Albert Ayler, Peter Brotzmann, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, Asmus Tietchens, Sunny Murray, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Don Cherry, Andrew Chalk, Gavin Bryars, Alvin Lucier, annnnnnnnnd so on...
Sounds Like
Brian Eno, early Tangerine Dream, Cluster, Terry Riley, Andrew Chalk, Steve Reich, Gavin Bryars, Alvin Lucier, Rotten Piece...
I began making music under the name Charlie Naked in the summer of 1995 after discovering a love of free jazz and experimental music, and my subsequent rediscovery of my saxophone, nearly forgotten after high school marching band. I wanted to make whatever music I felt the need to make that wasn't already being played by one of the bands I was involved in. As I didn't have a free jazz band at the time, it made sense to try my hand at that. Of course, I didn't take into consideration that a large portion of what makes free jazz special to me is the collaborative nature of group improvisation and the mutual communication that drives it, so much of my early music is little more than a creative simulation of free jazz. Still, as soon as The Democratic Art formed in 1996, I began to explore my interest in drones and electronics more, and by 2000, with the inception of the Last Bastions and the acquisition of a computer, I moved to computer-based music of a more ambient and electronic nature, beginning with "Oceans of Shattered Glass". Using the editing, processing and looping methods Mike Switzer and I were using in the Last Bastions, I developed my own system of "process music", whereby I would approach each recording project as a discreet experiment. The focus in each piece is on the process of developing the recorded and edited sounds individually and as parts of a coherent whole, rather than on what the finished product would sound like, or what the specific instruments, solos, and melodic motifs involved are.
I'm also a member of Fist of Kong (free jazz), the Defenestration Unit (psychedelic free improv), the Victor Dog (psych-rock), the Linus Pauling Quartet (psych-rock), and the Last Bastions (experimental/drone/improv). Go me!
And hey, now I have a Podomatic podcasting site at http://charlienaked.podomatic.com, so check it out:
Click here to get your own player.
thank you so much for your friendship and sorry for our late reply... We are always stressed out and steadily working on new songs in the studio...
As a thanx I'm giving you our best-of-album as a present. Just follow the link and download our music FOR FREE if you like what you hear on our profile...
It might be that you've already been given the free download link by someone else, because you are allowed to spread it among your friends... Feel free to spread the link, as well.
hi guys! bohemeo's is looking for some musical talent to play this fall season. If you all are interested in performing at a cool east end art house/coffee shop, email us at info@bohemeos.com!
Hi Charlie Naked I hope that you're having a wonderful week so far and can join us for this coming Saturday's TDFZ Radio Show music special that celebrates the official launch this weekend of the Cyber Warehouse. Our new and unique new online music download store service, developed by us specifically in our ongoing committment to help all world independent artists and convering all genres of music, is another very exciting project I am very proud to announce alongside our already successful existing ones and we would now like to extend a special invite to you here personally to participate in if you wish. Warmest wishes Chris Newman
yeehaw
the new tracks are slammin sir naked
mirrors sounds very eno influenced
idk if you were going for that but it's good. Reminds me of Here come the warm jets.
i found your music over a year ago when i was looking on window media player's media guide for scitar music and your song Bliss and the Scitar came up and i downloaded it
good good song
and goood good music
you are defiantly an influence to my own band, The Chi Chi's
((http://www.myspace.com/thechichis))
anyway
Speaking of which, there's a smokin' new Progressive Classical track up on Mad Nutcracker titled "Wasp Flight" Currently #2 in Progressive Rock on SoundClick.
*free jazz/free improvisation*
2nd part of french-Swiss complicities,
alternatives and multiple affinities between 4 musicians,
4 glances and 4 hearing on the manner of improvising,
4 gestures for a common painting.
melodies, rhythms, noises, screams and
squeaking caresses are joyfully teased.
eric pailhe: : tenor saxophone
johann bourquenez: piano
cyril bondi: drums
d’incise: objects, piano manipulations
Greetings and thanks for the add!
I've posted some songs from my upcoming release ring.mod on my page. Stop by and take a listen if you get a chance..I value your opinion - good or bad! peace, matt
