Public Enemy, Schlippenbach Trio, Albert Ayler, Roscoe Mitchell, Peter Brotzmann, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, William Parker, F.Hecker, Jim Denley, BDP, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, BAG, Julius Hemphill, Henry Threagill, Thelonius Monk, Oscar Pettiford, Wilber Ware, James Brown, Axel Dorner, Andrea Neumann, Cor Fuhler, Amanda Stewart, MIMEO, Matt Earle, Xanakis, Nono, John Coltrane, Ghostface Killah.
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.......................................................................................... CLAYTON THOMAS "BAD SELF" [GUTSTRING JAN 2009]80 minutes of solo contrabasss improvisations recorded between 2004 and 2008. Chain reaction and meditation make up the majority of the work, sitting somewhere between Hecker and Haiti.
Available for purchase at concerts or order online through METAMKINE
Clayton Thomas is a double bassist and grass roots organiser working in the broad spectrum of improvised and experimental music. He is Australian, but lives in Berlin.
I'm trying to work out a physical activity equally engaged in electronic and acoustic music aesthetics, while maintaining the kind of transitional and transformative energy of the music that changed my life. I draw inspiration from creative music of all eras, happily learning from and engaging with improvisers, sound artists, composers and thinkers alive and kicking in the 21st century.
I have been inspired and pushed by many great musicians, but would especially thank my first teachers Wilber Morris and Peter Kowald, and Jon Rose, Jim Denley, Andrew Meisel, Cooper-Moore, Tony Buck and Hollis Taylor for doing some real work on the topic.
Current Projects
Trio AUS with Johannes Bauer and Tony Buck HAMMERIVER with Clare Cooper, Chris Abrahams, Tobias Delius, Christof Kurzmann, Werner Dafeldecker and TB The Astronomical Unit with Matthias Muller & Christian Marien MOTH with Magda Mayas, Morton Olson and Chris Heenan Creoles with Jim Denley Substation with Robin Fox Morsal with Andrea Neumann The Ames Room with Jean-Luc Guionnet and Will Guthrie Truncador synthesiser duo with Chris Abrahams Syringe with Werner Dafeldecker Invisible Cinema with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Axel Dorner and Tony Buck The Berlin Meeting with Johannes Bauer, Rudi Mahall, Uli Gumpert and Michael Zerang The Tim O'Dwyer Trio with Darren Moore and TOD LVSXY with Clare Cooper Freenology with Sonny Simmons, Guy Bettini and Paul Lovens The Fundamentalists with Wilbert DeJoode and Peter Jacquemyn The Connectives with Burkhard Beins, Thomas Ankersmit & Ignatz Schick ELLASPEED with Asi Foecker, Andy Moor and Tony Buck
As well as collaborations with Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker, Mats Gustaffson, Peter Evans, Anthea Caddy, Andre Vida, Steve Heather, Manon-Liu Winter, Hannes Loeschel, Sherif and Christine Sehnaoui, Franz Hautzinger and The Ex
NEW! AUS LIVE IN NICKELSDORF with Johannes Bauer & Tony Buck NEW! BAD SELF solo contrabass NEW! DAS TREFFEN with Axel Doerner, John Schoeder & Oli Steidel Broken River The Tim O'Dwyer Trio Sonny Simmons Renegade Society with Brandon Evans & Andrew Barker Creoles with Jim Denley Artery with Jon Rose & Chris Abrahams The Splinter Orchestra CODE with Ken Vandermark, Max Nagle and Wolfgang Reisinger MAP with Mary Halvorson & Tatsuya Nakatani Substation with Robin Fox Raw Square with Mathew Ottignon
Coming Soon Hammeriver Morsal The Ames Room The Astronomical Unit - Relativity
DIATRIBES+JOAO PEDRO VIEGA+PAULO CURADO Travessia dos Respigadores freejazz/electroacoustic improv album on TEST TUBE netlabel music under CC by-nc-nd, copy & share it, thanks
hi monsieur thomas, truly like the music here & of course particulary your bass playing... go to www.insubordinations.net/releasescdr07.html take & listen... enjoy!!! bruno.
When I acknowledged that yourself and Frank Gratkowski going to perform in Russia I was like, damn, why don't they coming here, to Ukraine. Hope, someday you will make a stop somewhere here (and of course I understand that you perform in places you invited to)
P.S. I'm fascinated with a list where Public Enemy goes along with Albert Ayler and Alexander von Schlippenbach
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